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[religion] Something I heard once that makes me go Hmm real hard about fictional western depictions of Islamic characters/communities/etc
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when you see a muslim character in a show
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he's gonna talk about Allah
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praying to Allah, praise be to Allah
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but something I learned that turns that convention kind of on its head
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is that, in Arabic
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if you're talking about God in the context of Christianity
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the word is still 'Allah'
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it just means god
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it's not a different, weird foreign god
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it's just god
BWAAAAAH!
isn't it understood to be the same god?
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yeah
oh i'm scary
no yeah
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and I think a lot of fictional works use the convention of not translating the word
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to make Islam seem weird and scary
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then again I don't have any Muslim friends so I don't know how they talk about it in English just in conversations
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so maybe I'm full of shit?
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Niamh Vibes
at the very least, western writers seem p hyped to make the idea of praising allah to be inherently bad
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it's the same god fellas
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same guy
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your big beard friend in space
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that's where God is right? space
RobotApocalypse
i do have a muslim friend and iirc she does tend to use "Allah" when speaking in English
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huh ok
RobotApocalypse
but it's also not unusual for muslims to just say "god" either i don't think
AzureChrysanthemum
I think that is the form typically used in their prayers since I think they tend to use Arabic for them much like Pre-Vatican Catholicism used latin
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intriguing
RobotApocalypse
According to this, it's basically the difference between "god" and "God" in English - Allah specifies the Abrahamic God
Why Do Muslims Say Allah Instead of God? | About Isl...
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huh
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this is all very educational
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which is good I don't know shit about Islam
Medic▲l Mir▲cle
the pop culture fluffy cloud heaven suggests heaven is at a low enough altitude that god is not in fact in space
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maybe he's in the Homosphere
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(though the serious answer is that god is literally everywhere according to most relevant sects)
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that makes it much easier to sue God than it is to sue Satan
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who is only in hell and therefore is not a resident of any US state
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insert florida joke here
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it's also easier to get him to show up in court
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since he's already there
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the problem is he's also already in jail despite not having been charged with anything or even arrested, making his legal situation complicated