Talk:Sikhi and Islam

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I wish to make one minor comment re. Dr. Amrit Kaur Raina's text. Don't want to interject it in his copy so i am adding here. Allah is not only the Islamic word for God.

Christianity got its start in what the Arabs call the land of the left hand (the unlucky land), what we call the middle East. Allah is arabic for God. Christians of Damascus, Syria, (the land we call Lebanon today), Iraq and Palestine have used the word Allah for the one God of the Bible for at least 500 years before the Prophet of Islam was born. It was he who continued its use in Islam.

This may seem a minor point, but labeling the word as Islamic is adding to the potential for violence; and playing into the hands of the selafists or extremists who argue that it is their word.

Allenwalla 13:34, 21 August 2008 (UTC)