Coalition, sure

But let's not pretend that God and Allah are the same | Marvin Olasky

I've been studying Islam for the past several years while teaching a "Journalism and Religion" course at the University of Texas. I'm all for people from different religions talking with each other. I'm for the Bush strategy of building an anti-terror coalition that includes Muslim countries.

Nevertheless, our desire to make friends should not lead us to obscure the truth, as America Online's primer about "Understanding Islam" did recently when it proclaimed, "Same God: Muslims accept the teachings of the Jewish Torah and the Christian Gospels." Actually, Muslims accept neither the Bible as written (see our cover story) nor the God of the Bible.

A taxpayer-subsidized lesson in manners on the website of PBS is similarly wrong in offering this statement: "One should properly say that Muslims worship God, not Allah, which is simply the word for God (with a capital G) in the Arabic language. Giving a different name to the one God worshipped by the followers of Muhammad erroneously implies that their God is different from the one God worshipped by Jews or Christians."

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October 27, 2001, Vol. 16, No. 41

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