On 3 Apr 2004, at 8:43 pm, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:02:24PM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
Thus, in this sort of conversation distinguishing between the word "Allah" and "God" appears as a strategy to mark Muslims as the enemy Other, sort of like calling German's "Huns" or Japanese "Yellow Japs" in WWII. (Alternatively,
Don't be silly. What do I care what people call their imaginary supreme being? They can call it jim for all I care.
If they called it Ning-Nang Poopy Shorts then it would be very funny as well as imaginary.
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