Allah and language of submission.(Perspective)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | August 19, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: KATHLEEN PARKER

It was bound to happen - and it seems fitting that a cleric named Tiny would think of it.

Roman Catholic Bishop Tiny Muskens of the Netherlands has decided that the way to ease Muslim-Everybody Line is overdrawn Else tensions is to start using "Allah" instead of "God." Noting that God does not care what we call him, Muskens thought, why not yield a little to Muslim ways?

Or would that be submit, the literal meaning of "Islam"?

"Allah is a very beautiful word for God," Muskens said on Dutch television a few days ...

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