Bishop Urges Christians to Call God 'Allah'

From WorldNetDaily.com:

Catholic churches in the Netherlands should use the name Allah for God to ease tensions between Muslims and Christians, says a Dutch bishop.

The idea of calling God Allah is not only unnecessary but stupid. For one thing in the Qur'an, the word 'God' and 'Allah' is used interchangeably. For example, one verse says: "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful." And another verse says: "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." To me both verses say about the same thing.

This whole deal smells of political correctness which I detest. All political correctness does is to make the person using p.c. speech feel better. I don't really care if in Netherlands' past they called 'God' Allah. That was their choice back then. The moderate and traditional Muslims don't care if you say the word God instead of Allah. It's trivial to them mainly because both words are used interchangeably in the Qur'an. Using the word 'God' is not an offense. A Muslim spokesman referenced in the article even said the Moroccan mosques never asked for this gesture. So, why do it? If you really want to upset a Muslim drop the Qur'an on the floor. And if you are trying to appease the fundamentalist Muslims, well, you can never appease them. The only way to make them happy is to become a Muslim.