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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I'm not convinced that you can put a negative connotation to using the word Allah in English, or call it an attempt to exotify Islam. Wasn't one of those early translators, Pickthall maybe, a convert? Nevertheless, Islam is very different from Christianity in ways going far beyond the Trinity. Love your enemy, all that stuff.[/quote] It happened in all other languages, too. You will be hard-pressed to find a language where the god of Muslims is referred to as "God", not "Allah" by Muslims themselves. I grew up in Russia, which has millions of Muslims. I've never heard a Muslim Russian speaker refer to god as "God". It's always Allah. So if the OP thinks it's a subtle micro-aggression of Islamophobia (what an awkward turn of phrase!), the proper target of these accusations would be Muslims themselves. [/quote]
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