This is a bit off topic, I know, BUT I don’t know who else to ask. It’s been said that allah is the islamic moon god - is there some source to which anyone can point? Is it anywhere in the koran or hadith or sura that mohammed took one of the pagan gods they worshiped at the time, the mood god, and called it allah?
Pagan words for God were ALWAYS adopted by Christians when these pagan areas were evangelized.
Terms first used by pagans:
I don't dispute at all that Islam had pagan origins.
Names with 'el' as one of their components were common in the Near East in the second millennium BC. Linguistic cognates include ancient Semitic El, biblical Hebrew Elohim (God or/of gods), Arabic 'ilah ("a" god), Arabic Allah ("the" God) and biblical Aramaic Elah (God).
In the Mosaic period, 'el was synonymous with the Lord who delivered the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.
Muhammad was an intentional religious charlatan, a delusional paranoid schizophrenic and/or a demon-infested soul who picked up random 'religious' concepts like Velcro picks up lint. However his adoption/borrowing of the word "Allah" (long used by both neighboring Arabic-speaking pagans and Arabic-speaking Christians) is not the problem.
The Koran is a (comparatively) minor problem.
The Hadith, and Shari'a, are much bigger problems.
And, more than anything, Muhammad himself--- a wicked, bloody-handed, slave monger, demon-infested, lecherous, war lord/false prophet --- is the big, the catastrophic, fundamental root problem.