Why that suspended Wheaton professor is wrong to say Christians and Muslims 'worship the same God'

The media and student activists think they have a new sympathetic victim in the culture wars, and it's Wheaton College Professor Larycia Alaine Hawkins. Prof. Hawkins was suspended by Wheaton, an evangelical Christian institution, for the following Facebook post - but mainly for the money quote that claims Christians and Muslims "worship the same God." The predictable narrative here is that Hawkins - that rare Christian who isn't filled with hate toward Muslims - tried to reach out with love, only to get slapped down by her Bible-thumping overlords who will not countenance anything but vile rage toward the followers of Islam. That also appears to be the regrettable view of many Wheaton students, who perhaps should know better but generally follow the lead of dopey college-age activists everywhere. The Washington Post offers the conventional perspective: