Arabic-L:TRANS:allaah responses

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1) Subject: allaah in Maltese
2) Subject: allaah in Dutch e-mails
3) Subject: allaah response

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Date:  29 Oct 2001
From: Mark Camilleri <markcam at mail.global.net.mt>
Subject: allaah in Maltese

Hello,

We Maltese, though our language is classified as an Arabic dialect 
by some linguists, we are of the Catholic religion. As far as "Allah"
goes we call him "Alla" and for "Rabb" we use "Mulej" (Mula in Arabic).
Malta was a Muslim colony in the Middle Ages an though our language
changed much since then, the name of "Alla/h" remained the same
because our forefathers saw the similarities between Christianity and
Islam and between Allah and Alla.

Thank you,
Mark

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2)
Date:  29 Oct 2001
From:  Louis Boumans <louis.boumans at freeler.nl>
Subject: allaah in dutch e-mails

Some emperical data on the Allah versus God discussion:

For other purposes, I collected a sample of bulletin board messages
composed in Dutch by (mainly) Moroccan young people living in the
Netherlands and Flanders. The sample consists of 40333 words divided
over 237 messages posted under 196 differents nicknames.

The sample contains 137 tokens [!] of <Allah> versus 18 tokens of
<God>. In other words, this particular Muslim community prefers the
word Allah over the Dutch alternative, even when communicating in
Dutch.

Yours, Louis Boumans

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3)
Date:  29 Oct 2001
From:  ahmed abboud <ahmedabboud at hotmail.com>
Subject: allaah response

Hello everybody,
I do agree with Mr. Chambers concerning the distinction of allah and
other names in other religions.I think it's important to make such
distinctions ,because we're dealing with nouns that refer to
concepts.For the same reason I have reservation against the following
translation(laa illaaha illaa allaah) into(there's no God but allah)
instead I suggest the following(Allah is one and only).Thank you.
My regards,
Ahmed

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