[steve86]

This is somewhat off topic but I want to apologize to people on FR with whom I argued in the past that Allah is the same as the Christian God of The Bible. I now know that Allah was a straightforward derivation from Sin, the Sumerian pagan moon god (and his wife the sun god). The propaganda to make Allah into God was a deception to facilitate the (hoped-for) conversion of Christians. At no point was I ever under the misconception that the prophet of Islam or the ways of Islam ever had any validity or commonality with Christianity. Note: Some Middle East Christians do use the word Allah to refer to the Christian God of the Bible so the situation can be a little confusing.