[01LUGrad]

Dutch bishop: Call God 'Allah' to ease relations

A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with one million Muslims.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20279326/?GT1=10252

[LUconn]

what a d-----. How about if I proclaim that everybody should call water, "clearstuff" to avoid confusion. Oh wait, it's because that's not the word for it.

[mrmacphisto]

Isn't this just going to offend people on both sides?

[pbow]

I'm not saying that this priest is doing the right thing, but as someone who comes from a Lebanese family, I know that allah just means God in arabic, it's not like that's the name of the Muslim God, it's just the Arabic word for God

[RubberMallet]

sorry, the god they worship is not my God...

[LUconn]

that's gold. Truth to live by.

[scuzdriver]

why are people so afraid to offend with our beliefs? If I remember right, Jesus offended with his message of TRUTH!

[cheerbren]

I am so not into the tolerance level of the world. My God has many names, but I would not consider Allah one of them.

[mrmacphisto]

I wouldn't really consider God one of them either.

[ATrain]

While Allah technically does mean God in arabic, the muslim allah is not who I worship.

[grm]

Amen!

[phoenix]

"There is no god but Allah, and He has no children."

That kinda sums it up for me. Allah ain't the God I worship.

[LUconn]

"There is no god but Allah, and He has no children."

That kinda sums it up for me. Allah ain't the God I worship.

See this is what confuses me. Is it like there's an allah and the there's Allah, like we have a god and then God? That quote above is using the english word god as a noun and then Allah as a name. That's why it wouldnt make sense for us to replace gow with allah. And that's putting aside the fact that we speak English and not Arabic.