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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of them is when people think they're being PC and saying it doesn't matter if you pray to God or Allah or whoever you believe in. Allah = Arabic for God. I truly believe lots of celebrities who say this WANT to set Islam apart in a negative way -- in a -- oh we respect Muslims, they just pray to some other foreign God.[b] Um no -- they pray to the same God as Christians and Jew[/b]s.[/quote]

I respectfully disagree with this.  As a Christian I do not believe that Muslims pray to the same God as I do.  Nor do Jewish people.  I don't mean this in a disrespectful way, but my God is a trinity which must include Jesus.  If you do not believe in Jesus as God, then we do not believe in the same god.  We don't need to believe in the same god to be respectful to one another.  [/quote]

As a Muslim I completely understand WHY you don't think we pray to the same God as you. However, from our perspective the true message delivered by Jesus did not teach trinity (see Gospel of Thomas thread). Thus, the message Jesus brought is the same message as Moses brought and it is the same message that Muhammad brought. This is from the Muslim perspective. It emphasizes the oneness of God. So from the Muslim perspective, we do pray to the same God that Moses and Jesus spoke of, although we do not pray to Jesus as God. Muslims know by now that many, not all, Christians believe Jesus is God himself but we do not accept this. [/quote]
But clearly, Muslim perspective isn't the only one that counts here, is it. If you say "we pray to the same God as Christians", and Christians disagree, you have a de facto impasse.  Christians also disagree massively with Muslims on what exactly Jesus' message was. Jews certainly don't look to Muslims to interpret what exactly was the message that Moses brought.  That Muslims would like to draw these figures under the umbrella of Islam doesn't mean much to Jews and Christians. [/quote]

+1000. I've pointed out elsewhere that the Christian Jesus, who got rid of eye-for-eye vengeance and more Old Testament things, is very different from the Quranic Jesus and message. You may want to put them under the same umbrella, but for Christians that doesn't really work.[/quote]

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