Islam and terrorism

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What translation of the Qu'ran are you using?

Also,

“At the time of Mohammed’s appearance,” writes Tor Andrae, “Arabian paganism was tending very strongly toward that type of belief which has been called polydaemonism” or an undeveloped polytheism similar to that of Greek Polytheism (Andrae 13). “Like his Greek counterpart, Zeus, Allah was originally an ancient rain/sky deity who had been elevated into the role of the supreme god of the pre-Islamic Arabs” (Aslan 6). “Muhammad’s message was an attempt to reform the existing religious beliefs and cultural practices of pre-Islamic Arabia so as to bring the God of the Jews and Christians to the Arab peoples” (Aslan 17).

Allah is a contraction of al-ilah. A literal translation of Allah is The God. In Islam there is only one God (Smith 222; Aslan 6), “the same god as Yahweh, the god of the Jews” and consequently the god of Christianity (Aslan 8).
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Andrae, Tor. Mohammad: The Man and His Faith. Trans. Theophil Menzel.
Salem: Ayer Company, Publishes, Inc, 1989.

Aslan, Reza. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.
New York: Random House, 2006.

Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions.
San Fransico: Harper Collins.