The muslims do not believe in the God of Abraham. Allah is something totally different. We ignore that at our own peril.
I’m not sure about that. The Koran speaks to the God of Abraham and Ishmael
The muslims very much believe in the God of Abraham. They believe, however, that the true line came down the line of Ishmael rather than Isaac. Everything falls apart for them after that.
The pope is perfectly aware of that, but this isn’t the moment to get into it. The Muslims insist that they are monotheists and believe in the same God that Jews and Christians do. Obviously, this is nonsense; they might believe in a little trace of the religion, but simply because Islam is a syncretist religion made up of bits of Judaism, bits of Christianity, bits of old fashioned ME paganism, and bits of the esoteric arcana circulating in the ME at that time. It’s very similar to Mormonism (or Mormonism is similar to it), and this is the way it can be understood.
Of course, it is also so far from the truth by now that it has been wholly taken over by Satan, and the Pope knows that, too. But for the innocents among them, one should hold out an olive branch, especially at Christmas. It’s a Christian thing to do.