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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:34 AM
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3. Actually, a lot of them do....
...and it is considered semantically correct for Muslims to refer to the deity as "GOD" when speaking English.

Happens on CBC all the time.
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  -Question about the use of "Allah" when not speaking Arabic... Some Moran  Nov-21-03 10:30 AM   #0 
  - Well  ComerPerro   Nov-21-03 10:32 AM   #1 
  - Islam, Judaism, and Christianity all follow the God of Abraham...  Some Moran   Nov-21-03 10:33 AM   #2 
     - However  ComerPerro   Nov-21-03 10:37 AM   #6 
  - Actually, a lot of them do....  Tyler Durden   Nov-21-03 10:34 AM   #3 
  - Cool...  Some Moran   Nov-21-03 10:34 AM   #4 
  - Never bothered me  supernova   Nov-21-03 10:36 AM   #5 
  - It's mostly a Western media filter that divides Judeo-Christian & Muslim..  rucky   Nov-21-03 10:38 AM   #7 
  - You have the wrong translation. "Allah" means "Other than Man"  Scott Lee   Nov-21-03 09:15 PM   #8 
  - Allah  Astarho   Nov-22-03 10:57 AM   #9 
  - "Allah" just means "God" in Arabic  IndianaGreen   Nov-22-03 11:02 AM   #10 
  - Allah = "Other than man". It doesn't mean "God" exactly  Scott Lee   Nov-22-03 12:37 PM   #13 
  - I Have Been Told That Non-Believers  MrPrax   Nov-22-03 11:14 AM   #11 
  - errr  LibLabUK   Nov-22-03 12:57 PM   #15 
  - the anthrax letters said "Allah is great"  Cocoa   Nov-22-03 11:17 AM   #12 
     - Right. It was a hilariously stupid forgery.  Scott Lee   Nov-22-03 12:39 PM   #14 
 

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