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Sixtus
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I am not aware the Vatican has said that but if it has then it is all rather simple:
ROME HAS SPOKEN.THE CASE IS CLOSED
ROME HAS SPOKEN.THE CASE IS CLOSED
It so nice to be ātoleratedā.The Qurāan identifies Allah as none other than the God to whom Abraham offered āsubmissionā (āislam) in the episode Jews and Christians know so well from Genesis 22, the story of the binding of Isaac.
When Muhammad first preached to the Jews of Arabia, the Jews definitely thought he had got their God wrong, but they just as definitely did not think he had got the wrong God.
ā¦back in the seventh century, the first Muslims were using the same kind of word in Arabic that the Jews were using theologically in Hebrew and using it in the same way.
Muslims battled those who worshipped false gods, beginning with the Arab polytheists of Mecca and Medina, but they officially tolerated Jews and Christians because they understood the latter to be worshipping the one true God(emphasis Jonfan), the God or, in Arabic, Allah
beliefnet.com/story/136/story_13658_2.html
Jews, Christians, and Muslims āhave always assumed their differences to be about the character rather than the identity of God,ā Miles points to life in medieval Spain, where people of the three faiths mingled and disagreed with each other about the āsame divine subject.ā Thomas Aquinas, for instance, wrote Summa Contra Gentiles in part to refute the Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd, but he never tried to make the argument that Muslims were praying to a different God.
slate.com/id/2092762/