Allah not God

Submitted by Oscar Navarro (United States), Jun 14, 2007 at 09:21

Allah is not the Yahweh of the Judeo-Christian religion - the people of the book - he is one of the pagan deities worshiped by Meccans before Muhammad transformed it into a monotheistic Allah. Frankly, Allah is just Muhammads alter ego.

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