Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Bush's mouth works both ways

I just caught up to this: A Washington Post story from Saturday, 22 November in which Bush blurted out something that was actually liberal and inclusive, and got roasted by fundies for his trouble.

"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 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," Haggard said.

So said a fundie clergyman. I wonder what his training was like. On the other side:

Sayyid M. Syeed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America, responded to Bush's statement with a single word: Alhamdullah, Thanks be to God. "We read again and again in the Koran that our god is the god of Abraham, the god of Noah, the god of Jesus," he said. "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."


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