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.
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’.