President George Bush: Islam Is a “Great Religion that Preaches Peace” and Timothy McVeigh was a Christian

According to USINFO, a website “produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs”, President George Bush said in an October 4, 2007 Arab television program that Islam is a “great religion that preaches peace.”

According to World Net Daily, Bush made the statement “in an interview with Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi.”

The U.S. Department of State website also stated,  ”The president said he does not believe that those who murder innocent men, women and children for political objectives are ‘religious people,’ whether they be suicide bombers in Iraq or self-proclaimed Christians such as Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in a 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City.”

When did Timothy McVeigh claim to be a Christian? The Muslim leaders in America have also tried to make the point that McVeigh was a Christian. But there is no evidence that McVeigh was a Christian or ever claimed to be a Christian. He did not justify his actions from the teachings of Jesus Christ or anything in the Bible.

So now it seems President George Bush has bought into the Muslim lie that Timothy McVeigh stated that he was a Christian or lived like he was a Christian.

The comparison of McVeigh as a Christian to Muslims who commit acts of violence has no basis. For example the 9/11 killers claimed to be Muslims, they justified their actions with references to the Quran and the life and teachings of Mohammed, and prayed in a number of mosques in the U.S. They considered their actions to be an act of jihad, which is a major theological tenant of Islam. This is why it makes sense for people to associate the 9/11 killers as Muslims.

Timothy McVeigh was never a Christian and never claimed to be one either.

Mr. President, please wake up!

America, don’t be deceived by such foolish logic. It comes to us by way way of the Muslim leaders in America.

October 11, 2007 UPDATE:
“Islam is Peace” says President Bush at the Islamic Center in Washington, DC on September 17, 2001. Read the text of his remarks posted on the official White House website here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html