One more vocabulary review.

[conuly]

And this time I'll let you see what's prompting it.

Islam: A religious group. There is no "one way" to practice Islam, just like there is on "one way" to practice Christianity.

Muslim: A person who follows the religion known as Islam.

Arabic: A language, with many different dialects, some of which are very far apart. Spoken primarily by Arabs and Muslims.

Arab: Not synonymous with Muslim. Many Muslims are not Arab, many Arabs are not, nor have ever been Muslim.

Comments

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

The Allah v. God thing has always fascinated me.

The Christian God is Yahweh (I believe I spelled it correctly) though he's never called that. I think this stems from being unable to say God's name, so you... what, call him by a title? That's like having a pet turtle and naming it Turtle. Calling God by what he is seems a bit disrespectful to me, but hey. I think it says something about how much more personal Islam is of a religion (not to mention that you don't need any intermediary or training).

I like the way Islam does things. They cut out the fluff and get straight to the "this is you, this is Allah. Pray five times a day, follow the five pillars and have fun kiddies!"

[conuly]

*closes her eyes and tries again*

YHWH is the actual name for god given in the Bible. Different languages have different names for "God". Allah is NOT the Muslim word for god. AS I HAVE ALREADY STATED, Christian Arabs, who are Christians use the word "Allah" to mean God.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

I mixed that up then-- I thought it was Yahweh/Allah, and that only Christians and Jews had a taboo against calling him by name (though it's the same deity for all three). I guess it's a lot of their idioms that throw me off.