Oh, Allah, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Oakland Tribune | August 18, 2007 | Copyright

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 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 ago. "Shouldn't we all say that from now on we will name God Allah?"

Muskens pointed out that in ...

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