By Stan Goodenough
Jul 06, 2007
The God of the Bible – the God worshiped by Jews and Christians – instructed Moses and Joshua to take off their shoes when they stood in His presence because, He said, they were standing on "holy ground."
Last week, United States President George W. Bush, a professing Christian, removed his shoes in order to enter, and rededicate, the Islamic Center in Washington DC.
By standing in his socks in a Muslim place of worship, the president was showing deference to a being the Bible describes as a false god, and to an idolatrous religion whose followers are responsible for 90 percent of conflicts raging in the world today.
While, as with his similar Islam-supporting statements, Bush may have meant to demonstrate "tolerance and respect" for another religion, his actions would have only entrenched millions of Muslims around the world in their belief that Christianity is a weak and dying faith, and that Islam has usurped – and will conquer – it.
According to The Jerusalem Post columnist Daniel Pipes the president – who is on record as calling Islam "a religion of peace" and Allah "the same God" as the One worshipped by Jews and Christians – made the following statement:
"I have invested the heart of my presidency in helping Muslims fight terrorism, and claim their liberty, and find their own unique paths to prosperity and peace."
Bush is also known to have invested the heart of his presidency in pursuing a Middle East policy that has damaged Israel’s security and threatened to cut the Jews' homeland in two.