Fox’s Gretchen Carlson: Allah Is Not God

With the release of 103 documents from Osama bin Laden‘s compound came insight as to how the deceased al Qaeda lived his life at a Pakistani home until Navy SEALs raided in 2011. For Fox’s Gretchen Carlson one detail was particularly “sickening”: That bin Laden praised Allah.

Giving her mid-show “take” on the bin Laden documents, Carlson noted the oddity of al Qaeda’s recruitment form looking like a normal job application, except with questions like “Are any of your relatives in the jihad theater? Do you wish to execute a suicide operation? Who should we contact if you become a martyr?”

However, she said, “the most sickening part is the last line: ‘Praise Allah, lord of all worlds.'”

Carlson’s take: “Nope. Not really at all.”

It seems as though the Fox host — a devout Christian — was suggesting that their God is not our God, which underscores a long-standing debate among religious scholars: Do Christians, Jews, and Muslims worship the same God? All three descended from Abraham and the same monotheistic faith. As Pope John Paul II said to a crowd of Muslims in 1985: “We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.”

We know where Carlson stands on that.

Watch below, via Fox:

UPDATE — 4:33 p.m. ET: Carlson took to Twitter to claim her take had nothing to do with Christianity, but rather, this:

@Mediaite got my take wrong. I meant it was crazy Osama Bin Laden "praised Allah" as if Allah was condoning his acts of terror

— Gretchen Carlson (@GretchenCarlson) May 20, 2015

Note: We transcribed Carlson’s words exactly as they were said. And you can watch the video above for yourself. If she meant to say what she claims she meant, then maybe she should have, you know… said it.

And here’s the full, unedited transcript:

Back to Osama bin Laden because it’s time for my take. As we continue to sift through the 103 documents released today from his compound, it’s fascinating to see how the al Qaeda leader was living his life in the Pakistani compound, what he was reading and watching, his relationships with his wives and children. One weird thing stands out with regard to the al Qaeda recruitment. It turns out the al Qaeda recruitment form looks like any other job application, questions like list your previous occupation. Have you been in jail or prison? Do you have any chronic or heredity diseases? Then it gets more al Qaeda-ish. Are any of your relatives in the jihad theater? Do you wish to execute a suicide operation? Who should we contact if you become a martyr? The most sickening part is the last line: “Praise Allah, lord of all worlds.” Nope. Not really at all.

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