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No.
Allah was a pagan moon deity worshipped in Mecca pre-Mohammed.
It does NOT mean “God”.
The root of Allah is Al-ilah which means “the god” and is NOT a “proper” direct name of reference like Elohim.
Matter of fact, said moon deity has three daughters, acknowledged by Islam to exist, and they are named: Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat.
There was some buzz awhile back in Islam about whether or not they should worship the daughters of Allah.
[The “moon rock” at Mecca has three pebbles that fell off of it, hence the three daughters.]

Sorry, but you’re just wrong.

I assume you will consider the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1917 to not be overly corrupted with modern multiculturalism.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01316a.htm

For that matter, here’s what it has to say about Elohim, which is from the same root as Allah.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05393a.htm

El, Eloah and Elohim are used in the Hebrew Bible as the common names for God, while he is also given the proper name of Yahweh, Jehovah or YHWH.

The common names for God were also used, BTW, for pagan gods, just as in English.

I am perfectly willing to concede that Muslims misapply the name of God to whatever entity, if any, they are actually worshipping. But you don’t get to make up your own etymology for words simply because they serve a convenient political or polemic purpose.

Here’s an interesting essay on the comparative etymology of Elohim and Allah.

Really?
Premohammed mecca had a complete antheon.
Allah being one of them, a moon deity “married” to the sun deity.
A little research is all you need to do to find it.

Sorry, Islam is in no way a brother religion to Christianity or Judaism.
Look up the islamic practice of abrogation.
It is quite fascinating.

Not a great deal of point in talking to someone who is absolutely positively convinced their opinion is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But I’ll make one last try.

It’s really difficult to research the subject because the interwebs are overrun with Christians loudly proclaiming your POV and Muslims as loudly refuting it. The websites of both sides are in general, shall we say, less than scholarly in their presentations.

So I finally ran across a post by Daniel Pipes, widely considered an Islamaphobe and definitely not an apologist for Islam or Islamism. He agrees that the word Allah is simply the Arabic word for God, equating to God, Dieu, Dios, Gott, Theos and Elohim.

You can of course continue to believe otherwise, but your opinion is not based on good scholarship.

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3228274,103

You have an at first glance a decent point in that the word Allah was probably used to refer to one or more pagan gods before Mohammed. The problem is that the same is true of the word for God in every other language, including Hebrew, Greek and English.

In fact, the Bible text where God commands the Israelites to not worship other gods uses the same word to refer to the other gods and to God himself.

http://biblehub.com/interlinear/exodus/20.htm

I realize you’ve been taught this and believe it, but you might want to consider the possibility that those who taught it to you were mistaken.

SL, you say linguistically speaking Allah and the word God, as used by Christians, connote the same thing. Linguistically speaking, that is not true. Usage determines the meaning of words. By God, Christians mean the Creator God who, after making man in His image, became Incarnate and died on the cross to save His creation [from their willfully committed sins]. This God is love. That is what the Bible teaches.

By Allah, Muslims mean the ‘god’ who delights in the tortured, agonized screams of men, women & children that the Muslims rape, maim and torture to death, often while yelling ‘Allah Akbar’. They are referring to a ‘god’ that doesn’t merely tolerate the most barbaric, sadistic behavior imaginable—he encourages it.

Usage determines the meaning of words. If ‘Allah’ was never used in any context except simply to denote ‘the god’, you would have a point. But Muslims have gone out of their way to define exactly what they mean by ‘Allah’, and nothing could be further than the God of Christianity.

The Bible refers to those who ‘worship demons’. Allah is a demon. Only a demonic entity could delight in the screams and agonized death cries of the innocents that Muslims torture and kill in the name of their ‘god’.

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