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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45044)	11/22/2003 9:54:42 PM
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President Bush runs into trouble with ‘God’ By Khalid Hasan WASHINGTON: Of all the unlikely quarters from which President George Bush could have expected trouble, there could have been none more unlikely than the Creator himself, but that exactly is where a problem has arisen for him. Some of his faithful supporters in the ultra conservative evangelist establishment are in an uproar over the president saying in London in answer to a question that the God of the Christians and the God of the Muslims is the same. Not so, scream his reborn, fire-breathing friends back home. Asked by a reporter at his London press conference that if freedom is a gift from God, did he believe that “Muslims worship the same Almighty,” Mr Bush replied, “I do say that freedom is the Almighty’s gift to every person. I also condition it by saying freedom is not America’s gift to the world. It’s much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same God.” This sent immediate shock-waves across Christian Evangelist websites and was picked up by radio talk show hosts, who are often unabashedly conservative. One Christian baptist leader said the president was ‘simply mistaken’. He added the president was not the theologian-in-chief, pointing out that “the Bible is clear on this. The one and true God is Jehovah, and his only begotten son is Jesus Christ.” Rev Ted Haggard, head of the National Association of Evangelists, went a step further and declared, “The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health. The Muslim God appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in their cultures, civilisations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) central message was submission; Jesus’ central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities.” Sayyid M Syeed, the Kashmir-born president of the Islamic Society of North America, when informed of the president’s words, responded, “Alhamdulillah!” and then added, “We read again and again in the Quran that our God is the God of Abraham, the God of Noah, the God of Jesus. It would not come to the mind of a Muslim that there is a different God that Abraham or Jesus or Moses was praying to.”