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Old 05-08-2008, 01:44 PM
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The word Muslim in arabic translate into one who submits to the will of God, or one who believes in God. The arabic word for God is ALLAH, meaning "The God" (AL-THE. LAH-GOD, ) Do you know what arabic speaking christians call God..yup ALLAH. So according to the arabic meaning Obama is a Muslim(one who believes in God). Question is who is trying to distort the arabic to make being a Muslim out to be a bad thing?
That's a creative interpretation of what the word Muslim means. What Muslim means though in reality, is someone who believes in Islam. Muslims, Christians, athetists, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists are all distinct religions, they are not the same, as you are saying. Their practitioners are not all Muslims. Muslims are Muslims and not anybody else.
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