Is Allah the same God as the God of Christians & Jews?

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Muslims do not believe in Jesus Christ nor do they believe in the Trinity. Therefore how can one maintain the fiction that we all believe in one God as i have heard some Catholic clergy say?
 
The Arabic word “Allah” simply means “God.” Arab Christians used the word “Allah” for “God” centuries before Islam and continue to do so today.

Jewish people do not believe in Jesus as the Christ or God incarnate, nor do they believe in the Trinity yet we do not doubt we worship the same God.

Nostra aetate:
  1. The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
Since in the course of centuries not a few quarrels and hostilities have arisen between Christians and Moslems, this sacred synod urges all to forget the past and to work sincerely for mutual understanding and to preserve as well as to promote together for the benefit of all mankind social justice and moral welfare, as well as peace and freedom.
 
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