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[quote=Anonymous]Here is a scholarly yet reasonably accesible article by a Muslim scholar arguing that Muslims should use the word "God" when speaking or writing in English and not use "Allah." http://www.nawawi.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Article2.pdf It appears that extremist English speaking Christians and extremist Muslims find common ground on insisting that the God of Islam be called Allah in English. The extremist Christians appear to have spread internet nonsense that Muslims actual worship a moon god called Allah. Thus, if one uses God to refer to the Muslim God one is denying the essential paganism of Islam. Extremist Muslims, on the other hand, have various reasons for insisting on Allah instead of God. There is linguistic nonsense such as the word God, unlike Allah, can become plural or denote gender, while Allah cannot. This fails to take into account the role capitalization plays in English. (Arabic has no capitals.) The word Gods makes no sense in English as God connotes a system of belief in just one creator God with no deities beside him. The word "god", though can be pluralized and made feminine by adding "-ess." Every English speaker with a minimal amount of education recognizes the difference instinctively. This Muslim argument also conveniently glosses over the fact that in Arabic the word Allah is a combination of "the" (al) and "god" (ilah), but it has been run together to produce a word that mean one creator God. Another extremist Muslim argument for using Allah instead of God is that Allah, like the Quran itself, is untranslatable--God just doesn't convey the rich depths of Allah--so we are back to the old canard that one cannot understand Islam without deep study of ancient Arabic, which has been thoroughly debated on DCUM. It also ignore the fact that Arabic speaking Christians and Jews used the word Allah to refer to the creator God long before Islam. [/quote]
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