"No, the God of the Qur'an is Not the God of the Bible" Says A Protestant Theologian

The above is the Title of an article that appeared today in First Things at  

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/06/no-the-god-of-the-qurrsquoan-is-not-the-god-of-the-bible

written by Gerald McDermott, Professor of Religion at Roanoke College and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. 

I particularly found this article to be offensive to Muslims who worship the same God worshiped by Christians and Jews. The author is trying to compare a text (The Qura'n) with another text (The Bible). Surely he finds differences since he as a Protestant Christian refers only to the Bible as the rule of faith "Sola Scriptura."  Although at the end of his article he attempts an about-face recognition of Muslims who can be saved through Christ, his approach does not strike me as ecumenical or, to say the least, as truthful with regard to the way Christian American Presidents - all more or less attached to Christian faith - endorsed the killing of many innocents in the Middle East. 

Here is my reply to him in the "Comments" section:

According to the Ecumenical Second Vatican Council (binding on all Catholics), Christians and Muslims worship the same God (Cf. Nostra Aetate document here:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html). 

Furthermore, Catholic theologians have repeatedly emphasized that salvation is possible for all human beings. We pray for anyone to attain salvation. The Second Vatican Council affirms that non-Christians who have not heard the Gospel can attain it if they follow the dictates of their conscience. In addition to the great theologians Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Karl Rahner and Yves Congar, you may wish to read Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, founder of First Things and co-leader of Evangelicals and Catholics Together who wrote in First Things: Will All Be Saved?

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/02/will-all-be-saved-30

And Avery Cardinal Dulles article in First Things: Who Can Be Saved?

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/02/001-who-can-be-saved-8

There is no question in my mind that God alone will judge the hearts. If anyone is not saved, the first will be Christians who are hypocrites today in a materialist Europe and North America.  I remain Catholic and follow the teachings of the Catholic Church which is based not on Sola Scriptura but on Tradition in which the Bible is authoritatively interpreted by the Church since the Apostolic Age.