Critical Thoughts

In light of what has happened before, something worthy of noting and better than asking how much are dental implant prices:

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.

Bishop Tiny Muskens, from the southern diocese of Breda, told Dutch television on Monday that God did not mind what he was named and that in Indonesia, where Muskens spent eight years, priests used the word “Allah” while celebrating Mass.

Actually the Alkitab Bahasa Indonesia (Bible in Indonesian) uses the phrase “Tuhan Allah”, but I digress. Anyway, the issue of the word “Allah” is not exactly something new. The Arab Christians have been using the word Allah from Day One, since that is the only word for “God” in Arabic.

Their Western counterparts, however, have been making silly claims ranging from the polemic that Allah is the moon-god, to the nonsensical link to a statue at Hazor and the idea that Allah is Hubal, the largest idol of the Quraysh. Lies, lies and lies…all of them, of course but again, I digress.

Its not like their change of semantics is going to improve their relations with Muslims or anything…as far as I am concerned, these pseudo-monotheists can shove whatever they are selling to Muslims in a place where the sun does not shine.