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From: soufi@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Khaled Soufi)
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Subject: Re: Why Allah?
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Date: 8 May 91 16:15:57 GMT
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I think you've made some very good points.  We should use the word God when
we speak English so that people who don't know the fact that Allah is really
the Arabic word for God don't get confused as they normally do!!  It is sad,
however, that so many people don't know such a basic fact.  Actually, some 
abhoring jerks (that I have seen on TV) maliciously take advantage of the
ignorance and use the word "Allah" (despite the fact that it might be the only 
arabic word they know!!!!) when they refer to God, so as to insinuate that 
"Allah of the muslims" is different from God.

--khaled

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