ALL RELIGIONS PRAY TO SAME GOD - BUSH

EXODUS 20:3-17 THE 10 COMMANDMENTS GEORGE (VERSE 3)KJV
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

I DON"T WANT TO TELL GEORGE W THAT THERES THE ONE TRUE GOD OF ISRAEL, THEN THERES VARIOUS OTHER GODS.

TESTING THE FAITH
Bush: All religions pray to same God - That's what I believe. I believe Islam is a great religion that preaches peace.
October 7, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

President George Bush has repeated his belief all religions, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God – an assertion that caused outrage among evangelical leaders when he said it in November 2003. Bush made the statement Friday in an interview with Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi.

Al Arabiya is Al Jazeerah's top competitor in the Mideast.

As the president and Nakouzi walked from the Oval Office to the Map Room in the White House residence, Nazouki asked, But I want to tell you – and I hope this doesn't bother you at all – that in the Islamic world they think that President Bush is an enemy of Islam – that he wants to destroy their religion, what they believe in. Is that in any way true, Mr. President? No, it's not, said Bush. I've heard that, and it just shows [sic] to show a couple of things: One, that the radicals have done a good job of propagandizing. In other words, they've spread the word that this really isn't peaceful people versus radical people or terrorists, this is really about the America not liking Islam. Well, first of all, I believe in an Almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God. That's what I believe. I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace. And I believe people who murder the innocent to achieve political objectives aren't religious people, whether they be a Christian who does that – we had a person blow up our – blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City who professed to be a Christian, but that's not a Christian act to kill innocent people. And I just simply don't subscribe to the idea that murdering innocent men, women and children – particularly Muslim men, women and children in the Middle East – is an act of somebody who is a religious person.

Friday's statement echoes one made by Bush in November 2003 during a joint press conference with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. A reporter noted Bush had frequently expressed the view that freedom is a gift from the Almighty, but questioned whether Bush believes Muslims worship the same Almighty as the president and other Christians do. 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, Bush replied. It's much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same god, reported the London Telegraph.

Reaction from U.S. evangelical leaders was swift and strong.

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, was quoted in the Baptist Press as saying the president is simply mistaken.According to a Washington Post account, Land said in an interview: We should always remember that he is commander in chief, not theologian in chief. The Bible is clear on this: The one and true god is Jehovah, and his only begotten son is Jesus Christ.The Rev. Ted Haggard, then-president of the National Association of Evangelicals, also contradicted the president in a press statement. The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health, said Haggard. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad's central message was submission; Jesus' central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities.In November 2006, Haggard was forced to resign from NAE following allegations of drug use and sex with a homosexual prostitute. Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate and president of American Values, said Bush's comment was not helpful to the president. Since everybody agrees he's not a theologian, he would be much better advised to punt when he gets that kind of question.

In Friday's interview with Al Arabiya, Bush emphasized his outreach to Muslims.

We are having an Iftaar dinner tonight – I say, we – it's my wife and I, Bush told Nakouzi. This is the seventh one in the seven years I've been the president. It gives me a chance to say Ramadan Mubarak. The reason I do this is I want people to understand about my country. In other words, I hope this message gets out of America. I want people to understand that one of the great freedoms in America is the right for people to worship any way they see fit. If you're a Muslim, an agnostic, a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, you're equally American. And the value – the most valuable thing I think about America is that – particularly if you're a religious person – you can be free to worship, and it's your choice to make. It's not the state's choice, and you shouldn't be intimidated after you've made your choice. And that's a right that I jealously guard. Secondly, I want American citizens to see me hosting an Iftaar dinner.That's a strong message for the Americans, said Nakouzi. Last year, WND reported criticism of Bush from Wafa Sultan, a native of Syria, who said the president was empowering terrorist leaders whose ultimate aim is for Islamic law to govern the world by proclaiming Islam a religion of peace.I believe he undermines our credibility by saying that, said Sultan. We came from Islam, and we know what kind of religion Islam is.

HERES YOUR PEACEFUL ISLAM IN ACTION GEORGE W. TAKE NOTE!

GLOBAL JIHAD
Again! 10 Christians slaughtered over alleged Muhammad cartoon
61 injured, 9 churches burned, hundreds displaced after rumored insult to Islam - October 5, 2007 - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Remains of burned Baptist church (Courtesy Compass Direct)

Rampaging Muslims have killed 10 Christians, injured 61 others, destroyed nine churches and displaced more than 500 people in northern Nigeria, according to eyewitnesses – all because Muslim high school students claimed a Christian student had drawn a cartoon of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, on the wall of the school’s mosque. The rampage occurred Sept. 28 in the town of Tudun Wada Dankadai, in Nigeria's northern state of Kano. According to Compass Direct News, which specializes in reporting on Christian persecution worldwide, there are 1,500 students at the high school, called Government College-Tudun Wada Dankadai, of which only 14 are Christians, and only seven of those actually live on campus. The Christian students at the school insist no one ever saw the alleged cartoon, and furthermore that no one in the tiny minority group of Christians would have dared such a feat, especially during Ramadan. How can we take such a risk when we know that we are a minority and cannot stand [against] them? Christian student Shehu Bawa told Compass. This is a lie created to have a reason to attack us.Eighteen-year-old student Iliya Adamu told Compass he was getting ready to go to class when a group of Muslim students stormed into his dorm and began to beat him.

I was surprised that they were beating me without telling what I did, Adamu said. I asked to know what was happening, and they claimed that one Christian student had gone to their mosque to draw a cartoon of Muhammad. In spite of my denying the act, they kept beating me.Seeing the Muslim mob beating a Christian classmate named Sule La’azaru, Adamu ran to the principal's office for refuge, soon to be joined by the remaining Christian students there, according to the report. Despite the attempts by the Muslim teachers to stop the rampage, Muslim students began throwing stones at the Christian students through the window of the principal's office, wounding student Ayuba Wada in the head. I was inside the office of our principal, with the others, when suddenly the Muslim students began throwing stones at us, Wada told Compass. It was through this way that my head was broken. I was bleeding, and no help came as the situation became more riotous.
Eventually, the rampaging Muslim students broke into the principal's office, but the principal's arrival saved Wada's life, while the other Christians holed up there managed to escape the mob. One of the Christian students, Shehu Bawa, told Compass his arrival on campus that morning was punctuated by shouts of Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great) all over the school. In fact, he said, The Muslim students were now attacking every Christian student on sight. Four of us ran into the office of the vice principal, but when it was finally broken into by the Muslim students, we ran out and escaped.

What about the alleged cartoon of Muhammad, rumors of which instigated the attacks?

We suspect that either one of the Muslim students in the school did this to create an excuse for us to be attacked, or that a Muslim fanatic from the town might have done this to spark off a fight among Muslims and Christians, said Bawa. How could we have done this when Muslim students are always around the mosque day and night because of the Ramadan?

The rampage spreads far and wide

After attacking the few Christian students in their school, the rampaging Muslim students poured into the streets of Tudun Wada, joined now by other Muslims. For the next four hours, reports Compass, the growing mob burned down Christian churches, vandalized Christian property and murdered innocents. Among the churches burned were: St. Mary’s Catholic Church; St. George’s Anglican Church; Evangelical Church of West Africa; Assemblies of God Church; First Baptist Church; a Pentecostal church called the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church; an African independent church, the Cherubim and Seraphim Church; and two other Pentecostal churches, The Chosen Bible Church and Deeper Life Bible Church.

Children of murdered Christian (Courtesy Compass Direct)

The 10 Christians murdered included: Augustine Odoh and his younger brother Cosmos Odoh, both members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Another Catholic, Joseph Eze, was also killed. When Compass filed its initial report, the corpses of the three Catholics were lying at the City Hospital in Kano city. Seven other Christians murdered were buried in a common grave Wednesday, but government workers did not allow relatives or church leaders to identify the corpses. The dozens of injured are being treated at the Assumpta Clinic, Nomansland in Sabon Gari area of Kano city. According to Musa Ahmadu Haruna, the priest of St. George’s Anglican Church, Tudun Wada Dankadai, whose church was burned, no Christian student in the school could have drawn an image of Muhammad. None of these students is capable of drawing a cartoon on a mosque, he told Compass Direct. That is a frame-up to find a reason to attack us.Another pastor, Rabiu Danbawa of the Evangelical Church of West Africa, said that upon hearing of the waves of attacks on Christians, he moved toward the town's center to see for himself what was transpiring.

I stood as they set fire on our churches one by one, he told Compas Direct. There was nothing I could do, he said, adding, I did not know the fate of my wife and my children. When he went to the local police station for help, Danbawa found the police turning away Christians who had run there to escape the attack. We were told to leave, as our safety could not be guaranteed, he said, in tears, according to Compass Direct. Women and children all scampered to the bush, only to be attacked by the Muslims who had already hid themselves in the bush awaiting their Christian prey.It wasn't until several days later that Danbawa found his wife and children safe. Accoroding to reports from Compass, Danbawa and his family are now refugees in Dogon Kawo village, along with other Christian victims. None have food or shelter, he said. Even Christian policemen were not immune, with about 30 officers and their families being attacked and their homes looted and set on fire.

Last week's massacre comes in respose to a call in July by the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar III, to Muslims in northern Nigeria to rise against Christianity. Kano's state government has led the way in northern Nigeria for the implementation of sharia Islamic law.
Mark Lipdo, director of the Stefanos Foundation, which ministers to persecuted Christians in Nigeria, told Compass he's shocked that the Nigerian government has done nothing to help the injured and displaced. It is surprising that an overwhelming thing like this that has displaced thousands of Christians is not known to the Nigerian government, he said, noting that the government initially downplayed the mass rampage. The government must act to check such unprovoked attacks against Christians.And Haruna of St. George’s Anglican Church said, We are living under persecution in Kano state, and yet, we are being told that we are under a democratic government. Do Muslims really want us to co-exist together as a nation? I doubt so.As WND reported in May, Christians in Nigeria, who make up about half the population, fears the imposition of Islamic law throughout that nation. Indeed, as WND has reported, Muslim rioters in Nigeria in 2006 were incensed over cartoons of Muhammad published in Denmark, and more than 130 Christians in the Nigerian cities of Maiduguri and Onitsha were slaughtered. The reports documented six children burned to ashes in front of their father, according to Voice of the Martyrs. WND also has reported nearly 1,000 homes of Christians and many churches have been destroyed in these regions.
If you go around villages, you will see people missing one hand or one foot, explained Rev. Obiora Ike. Do you think that's the result of an illness? That is the result of sharia law.More than 10,000 Christians have been martyred in the region since the Islamic law was imposed in the region in 1999, and Voice of the Martyrs has helped surviving family members through its Families of Martyrs Fund with Care Packs, Village Outreach packs and words of encouragement to believers who stand for their faith amidst volatile, uncertain conditions.