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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of them is when people think they're being PC and saying it doesn't matter if you pray to God or Allah or whoever you believe in. Allah = Arabic for God. I truly believe lots of celebrities who say this WANT to set Islam apart in a negative way -- in a -- oh we respect Muslims, they just pray to some other foreign God. Um no -- they pray to the same God as Christians and Jews.[/quote]

Saying Allah in English to refer to the god Muslims worship is stylistically incorrect, theologically suspect, and a subtle undermining of Islam.

Someone on the Ebola thread got exercised about posters referring to Medcins Sans Frontiers instead of Doctors Without Border when writing in English.  Using Allah instead of God is a much worse offense. [/quote]
To be fair, Muslims are the first perpetrators of this offense.  Most Muslims, not just Arabic speakers, don't say god, they say allah in all its possible renditions. This includes people who don't speak a word of Arabic, and it includes languages other than English. [/quote]
Absolutely. Look into fatwa sites in non-English languages.  They all end with "And Allah knows best" in whatever language they use, not "and God knows best."[/quote]

Yes--it's very annoying.  I think they get it from the 19th century translators of the Quran into English, where "Allah" is invariably translated as "Allah" instead of God.  The translators were intent on showing that the Islamic Allah was an exotic god different from the solid British God they worshipped.[/quote]

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