Response to DeVan's Review Essay of Allah: A Christian Response

[...] while seeking to be truthful about what I have termed "normative Islam," we must offer charitable interpretations of Islam and allow it to appear in the best rather than worst light compatible with truthfulness. [...] we should be willing to recognize the failings of Christians in regard to Muslims without the need to point out immediately the corresponding and maybe even worse failings of Muslims in regard to Christians. [...] if they have a common God, they inhabit the same moral universe; if they do not have a common God, they do not inhabit the same moral universe.