March 04, 2012

God is not the same as Allah--not even close

When I was a kid I was fascinated by how adults seemed to believe that God and Allah were the same guy. To my child's mind this was obviously false on its face: the names were different, so....

Sometime later this mystery resolved itself: If there's only one Supreme Being, it shouldn't matter that different groups have different names for him.

But today a third path appeared: If the two groups of humans ascribe wildly different and conflicting attributes and goals for humans to their Supreme Being, then it's hard to see how those two Supremes could be the same after all.

The occasion was a speech by a mullah or other mucky-muck by name of Khan Yunis, in Gaza, on February 24, 2012. It was carried by Al-Aqsa TV.

We say loud and clear: The struggle for Palestine is a clear religious struggle between Islam and Zionism. It is a struggle between Truth and Falsehood, between Islam and heresy, between light and darkness, between good and evil.

We cannot possibly accept [the Al-Aqsa mosque] remaining under the control of those whom Allah described as a bunch of apes and pigs, the scholars of whom Allah describe as asses carrying books, or as a dog that pants when you beat it and pants when you don’t. [T]hese contemptible people cannot lord over the great people, these slaves cannot lord over the masters. The masters today are all the Muslims.

Okay, maybe it's just me but I'm just not seeing "God" as describing jews as "a bunch of apes and pigs," nor that He would describe jewish scholars as "a dog that pants when you beat it and pants when you don't."

Indeed, I can't imagine God talking about beating a poor dog. And then there's this description of Muslims as "masters"--again a very odd thing for God to say or instruct. One can only conclude--as many others have before--that God and Allah aren't the same at all.

Okay, I might be way slow coming to this particular party.

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