"God vs Allah == 
  ""It is better to say ""There is no god but God"" than ""There is no god but Allah""  just because we have anti-Muslim bigots coming here claiming that Allah is not the same god as the Christian or Jewish god, but a different entity entirely."" Zora, it is inappropriate of you to go around brazenly declaring that you will sacrifice accuracy and precision in an effort to enforce your POV on the rest of the world and protect wikipedia readers from the views of those who would disgaree with you (whom you so freely label ""anti-Muslim bigots."") Who are you to tell Christians or Jews who their god is and what other reigions their god belongs to? And who are you to enforce your original research about which gods of different religions are the same? I could just as well argue that Allah is the same god as Ahura Mazda, the supreme diety of Zoroastrianism. After all, Islam is largely derived from Christiany/Judiasm, Christianity is largely derived from Judaism, and Judaism is largely derived from Zorastrianism. Here are some of the ancient names of Ahura Mazda: the All-pervading, the Creator (of life), the Majestic, the Greatest, the Best, the Just, the Merciful, the most Beneficient, all of which are also names of Allah. Here is the catch: Muslims believe that Zoroastrians are fire-worshipping pagans, and the early Muslims burned down Zoroastrian temples to no end. And, in contrast to Islam, Zorastrians believe that the Supreme Being is both good and evil. Muslims would hate for their God to be associated with pagan dieties, such as Ahura Mazda, or the Supreme Being of Hinduism. And yet all of these gods can be seen as one and the same idea, the ""same god."" Why do some Muslims like to insist that Allah is the same God as the God of Christianity, when the Christian trinitarian god is clearly very different, or that Allah is the same God as the God of Judaism when the ""Hebrew understanding of God was frankly anthropmorphic""? There are certain psychological reasons for why some modern-day Muslims insist that the gods of the prevailing religions in the West are the same as Allah. But the real issue here only concerns one specific part of the article, specifically the translation of the shahada. Should we translate it as ""There is no god but God"" (as Zora prefers) or as ""There is no god but Allah?"" There are different approaches to translation, and the proper approach depends on the context. Sometimes the best approach to translation is to sacrifice accuracy in order to convey a certain meaning. At other time the best approach is to uphold accuracy even if it requires using foreign words that are famaliar to the reader. The Arabic version of the shahada reads, ""La ilaha il Allah."" Literally translated, this means ""No god but Allah."" The Arabic word ""La"" means ""No."" The word ""ilaha"" is derived from the word ""ilah"" which is most accurate translated into English as ""god."" Now we come to the word ""Allah."" Should we leave it as it is, or should Zora impose her own POV interpretations at the cost of accuracy, and change it to ""God?"" The immediate problem with translating the shahada as ""There is no god but God"" is that it the same word ""GOD"" is used twice, wheras in the Arabic version two distinct words (""ilah"" and ""Allah"") are used. It is misleading, therefore, to translate both as ""god"" while putting a capital letter for the second occurace. Arabic does not have the concept of capital and lowercase letters. And the shahada uses two phonetically distinct words here. For these reaosns, I changed ""God"" to ""Allah.""     

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