Can Christians and Muslims be allies?

Answer 1

Christians and Muslims are very similar in many ways. They both worship the same God, Muslims just call Him Allah. One of the main differentiations is that Christians veiw Jesus as God, but Muslims don't. Of course, Jesus is still in the Quran, and is one of the prophets named there. His death is controversial between the two religions. The Christians say that Jesus was crucifed. Muslims say that while Jesus was being chased, he hid a room. A man caught up with him and directed the others who were chasing Jesus to that room. But before they arrived, God changed that man that ratted him out to look like Jesus, and lifted Jesus into the sky to wait until he should return to the Earth on Judgement Day. The man who now looks like Jesus was captured by the people originally chasing Jesus. HE was then crucified, and everyone beleived that that was Jesus himself. So basically, Christians believe that Jesus died, while Muslims believe that he was sent to heaven to wait there till Judgement Day, and was never killed.

Answer 2

Of course they can. They have in the past, and they will in the future. A treaty between the United States and Tripoli, drafted in 1796 under George Washington and signed by John Adams in 1797, demonstrates that position in the eighteenth century: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen [Muslims]; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan [Islamic] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."