[Don Joe]

"Allah is the Arabic word for God."

And Krishna is the Hindu name for God.

Would you feel comfortable praying to "Lord Krishna"?

I would not.

A religion may claim that its figurehead is the same as the God that Jews and Christians worship. Claiming so does not make it so.

The "moon god" origin of "Allah" is well-documented, and an offhanded assertion to the effect that "well, he's God, just with a different name" does not impress those who know the reality of the derivation of the lower-case-g god called "Allah".

[MistyCA]

Well, that's all fine and dandy. But the fact of the matter is that many people who believe in Allah do not interpret the way you do. Nor do they interpret the Koran the way you do, and that is really the issue here.

On the other hand, and there always seems to be another hand in all of this, we are still faced with a faction of the Islamic religion that insists on carrying on their jihad against America. And the fact of the matter remains that we have no way of knowing for sure which of those Muslims within our country really feel that way because they do not broadcast it.

[TopQuark]

Jon Doe, "Allah is the Arabic word for God."
And Krishna is the Hindu name for God. Would you feel comfortable praying to "Lord Krishna"? What does this have to do with what the word means to those who actually use it?
Would you feel comfortable praying to "Lord Krishna"? I would not. Noone asks us to do so; most certainly there is nothing of that sort in mystomachisturning's post.

When people use words in a way different from ours in the privacy of their church, it has nothing to do with the rest of us; this does not make them villains.

[Patria One]

Allah is also the Aramaic word for God.

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"The "moon god" origin of "Allah" is well-documented"

Yes, Allah was one of 360 gods worshiped at the time....Moh. picked allah; yet he could have picked one of the other doods!