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From: sinnott@iastate.edu (Sinnott Susan Buthaina)
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Subject: Re: Why Allah?
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Date: 10 May 91 13:38:33 GMT
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	I couldn't disagree more with Jemshed Nawaz's recent post on this
topic.  Look up what God means in the dictionary some time.  It means One True
God.  The English word for Ilyhe is gods.  Big G means the One True God.  
Little g means pagon gods.  What you are saying is that our God is different
than the Christian and Jewish God.  Look in your Qu'ran and you will see that
this is not so.  The reason that the Arabic version of the Qu'ran has Allah
is that it is written in Arabic!!!  My translation by A. Ali Yusif translates
Allah as God throughout.  Allah is not the NAME of our "god" as Buddah is the
name of Buddist's "god".  
	Finally, Islam is not just a religion for those that can speak Arabic.
If you want to write on a bullitan board where the language is Arabic, you 
will write in that language.  I know how to speak and read Arabic and I STILL
don't know what people are trying to say when they write Arabic words in 
English!!  I have to sound it out and it takes a long time.
	Finally, stick to the topic.  If you don't like my posts on other
topics, feel free to write me or post on this topic.  But don't confuse the
two.  Let's handle one thing at a time.

Peace be with you.

Susan Sinnott