I can sort of see how this could be taken out of context by a crappy reporter. Maybe he wasn’t drawing a literal distinction between the God Christians believe in and the god Muslims believe in, but rather a rhetorical one between his idea of God and the God in the minds of jihadists, who they think is going to send them to paradise as a reward for killing people. Duffey is also quoted as saying “You and others have distorted the values of your faith,” which at least makes it sound like he isn’t completely disrespectful of Islam.

The guy is a Bush nominee on the recommendation of Saxby Chambliss, though, so right now I’m calling it a toss-up.

You are a generous individual and I will seek to learn from your example.

I think Occam’s Razor suggests Spencer was probably right in one.

Here’s a fuller quote:

“Not once, not once in this case have you expressed any remorse for anything that you have done,” Duffey said. “You have not expressed any remorse for your willingness to join with violent men to inflict harm, and in some cases death, on others. And it’s because, as you told us this morning, that you are subject to no authority other than the God that you believe requires you to proceed even further in your quest to impose on others a way of life that you believe God seeks to impose on us.

“I will say this. Our Gods are very different. And I am sorry that we have in our country, people that would see a God that loves others engage in the sort of vigilante justice that some in your religion would engage [in] for the purpose of manipulating and changing cultures.”

Not exactly how I would have phrased it, but it does seem to lean toward contrasting ideas of morality rather than literally saying that Muslims believe in a different Jehovah.