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From: sch2q@palm.cs.Virginia.EDU (Saad C. Himmich)
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Subject: Why Allah?
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Date: 7 May 91 22:32:11 GMT
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I really don't understand why people keep on calling God as Allah.
Allah is just the arabic word for God. Keeping on saying Allah lead to a
situation where non-muslims think that Muslims have a different God.
Many christians I have been talking to have so many wrong ideas about Islam! 
Allah is the same god that sent Jesus as a prophet. So why not say God
or Dieu (in French) or Dio (in Spanish) or ... 

If I missed something, please tell me. I thought that we (as Muslims)
were trying to make people know better about Islam. One of the basic
things to know is that Islam is a continuity of the two other religions,
in the sense that it does not refute the existence of the previous
prophets, Mohammed being another prophet (the last one). 

The very fact that when you say Allah people look at you as if you were
invoking Manitu is very enraging. After so many centuries, people still
don't know anything about Islam. How can it be? 

--Saad.