This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, September 13th, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The typical American view of Islam continues to be marred by the tiny fraction of

self-described Muslims who make common cause with groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda.

That according to New Cato Institute Senior Fellow Mustafa a kial, author of the Islamic Jesus.

We spoke last week about Islam and what Americans often still fail to appreciate about it. You've written about the relationships multiple among

Christianity, Judaism and Islam and I think there is a broad misunderstanding about what Islam is and of course there are you know there are many many denominations of Christianity

there are many different kinds of Judaism and there are several kinds of Islam. So what do people not understand, at least particularly in the

United States, what do Americans not understand about Islam at its core?

Sure, that's a good question.

I mean, first of all, of course, some Americans understand why well and you know in every society

I think there are people who have a better sense of different societies and those who have sometimes prejudices or stereotypes.

What I would like to emphasize though is Islam is not an alien religion from either a Jewish or Christian perspective.

We hear the word Judeo-Christian very often in the world today.

Islam can be added to that.

We can speak of a Judeo-Christian Islamic tradition

because Islam emphatically itself emphasizes that it's the continuation of Judaism and Christianity.

It's it criticizes them you know know, it has differences from both, but it is coming from the same route. It's a very Abrahamic religion and you can see that everywhere. I mean we Muslims go to Caba in youijas in Saudi Arabia today because we believe that it was built by

Abraham and Ishmael as a monotheistic temple.

We have an eed which is a festival in which Muslim slaughter animals for God, not themselves necessarily, but through butcher or some.

And we do it because, oh oh it's the story of Abraham and

sacrifice which is a biblical story. So when you read the Quran you will see a lot of

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