The terror-enabling Arab satellite channel Al Arabiya is openly hostile to George W. Bush in this interview, and in return he just keeps insisting that Islam is a Religion of Peace™, and denying he is an ‘enemy of Islam’.

There’s so much denial on both sides here that it ends up a pretty depressing read.

President George W. Bush spoke exclusively to AlArabiya television on Friday and tried to defend himself against the widely believed view in the Islamic world that he is an “enemy of Islam.”

In the White House interview, AlArabiya anchor Ellie Nakozi asked Bush if the views in the Islamic world, that he is an enemy of Islam and wants to destroy the religion, were in anyway true.

“No, it’s not … it just shows a couple of things: One, that the radicals have done a good job of propagandizing,” he replied.

“We are having an Iftar dinner tonight. This is the seventh one in the seven years I’ve been the President. It gives me a chance to say ”Ramadan Mubarak“ … the reason I do this is I want people to understand about my country … that one of the great freedoms in America is the right for people to worship any way they see fit,” Bush said.

The interview comes as the Bush administration is failing miserably in the Iraqi quagmire, the Israelis and Palestinians are in peace discussions, Lebanon is in the midst of electing a new President and the world wonders if it should brace itself for a war with Iran.