The muslim extremists you hear about have about as much to do with the Islamic religion as the KKK has to do with Christianity.
That is simply not true. The Gospel calls for Yeshua's people to love our neighbors as ourselves and even love our enemies.
The Quran calls Muhammad's true followers to do just as Muhammad did and commanded his followers to do:
Surah 9.111 Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an:
JIHAD AND ISLAMIC TERRORISM
Fighting and slaying is binding on Muhammad's orthodox followers, in the Quran.
Muslims that proclaim it to be a religion of peace are either wishful heterodox Muslim "hypocrites"
as their orthodox brethren refer to them, or they are lying in the way of Allah, or have been duped into believing a lie. There is nothing about its 1400 year history, or the way we find Muhammad's orthodox followers revealed around the world today, that suggests other than they are doing as they are commanded to do.
Quran Surah 9.29 Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. 30 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!
Although there are differences, Allah and God are the same.
Certainly not as revealed through the Quran and the Gospel. Muhammad's "Allah", is to the great God of our scriptures YHWH, as the negative is to a photograph. Compelling His followers to DISbelieve the whole subject of the Gospel:
Quran Surah 4:157 That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:-
THE FALSE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
Muslims believe that in all the prophets as Christians do.
No they do not. Do they believe some of them existed? Sure. But they believe in prophets solely as Muhammad falsely described them, not as revealed in the 1600 year record of YHWH to mankind.
Muslims also believe in Jesus, yes they do, .........
No they do not believe in Jesus. Satan has only deceived them into believing, that they believe in Jesus. To believe in Jesus one has to first believe in the whole reason the Messiah was made manifest to the world.
Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
THE LAMB SLAIN
To believe in Jesus one has to first believe in His crucifixion, death and resurrection through which all are saved who have faith in His blood. The exact opposite of what Muhammad's counter-Gospel, antichrist, anti-religion requires his followers to DISbelieve, deny and reject.
.....but they don't believe he was the son of God as Christians do.
So what does that make Muhammad as well as each and every Muslim?
1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also].
IS ISLAM ANTICHRIST?
Now there are theological differences, but Islam and Christianity are cousins by blood.
Absolutely not by "blood". Indeed nothing could be farther from the truth since they are required to reject Jesus' shed blood. Far from being "cousins" Islam and Christianity are as opposite to each other as Muhammad was from Jesus Christ. That's why they are murdering Christians all around the world today, as they have for 1400 years. They do so because they are filled with the spirit of antichrist.
MUSLIM PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS
Parroting Islam's taqiyyah and dissimulation will only help comfort those so sorely deluded, in their continuing to follow Muhammad down the path directly away from Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, while contributing to ultimately consigning our heirs to being compelled to DISbelieve the crucifixion of Christ, reject His shed blood, and deny the Son of God as articles of faith in THE false prophet Muhammad while prostrating themselves toward a black stone idol in Mecca five times a day while praying in the "vain repetitions of the heathen" as the scriptures describe it.
JESUS OR MUHAMMAD