So, "Allah is a pagan moon god," how can this be defended?

I read all over Yahoo Answers "Allah is a pagan moon god," and yet this is very much false. Islam is wrong, I'll agree to that, I don't need to believe that "Allah is a pagan moon god," but where is this really coming from? The Star/Crescent symbol of Islam did not come until way later and began more as a sign for the Ottoman Empire. Islam teaches that God is not the Moon rather he created the Moon but not only that, he created everything, so says Islam, so why is the Moon specifically to Allah? Muslims use a Lunar Calender? Did First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon? Don't the Jews also use the Lunar Calendar for Passover? By the way, there was an Egyptian Moon God/dess named Iah, does that automatically mean YHWH is an Egyptian Moon God too? No! So why is Allah (translated "The God") so associated with the Moon, are some Christians' faith against Islam dependent on that belief? Or is it that some Christians really have no other good arguments? Plenty of good points to discuss, but the Moon isn't one of them.

So, "Allah is a pagan moon god," how can this be defended?

?2014-11-14T12:06:55Z

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That "pagan moon god" story is a lie invented by Christians who are trying to pretend that their god is not connected to the Muslim god at all. If you cherry-pick ancient history and give it a good spin, you can say whatever you want about religions with ancient roots. Those who don't know much about history will probably believe you.

?2016-11-04T13:52:30Z

Allah Pagan Moon God

TNO2014-11-14T15:06:23Z

It just so happens that there was a pre-Muslim Arab moon deity with either a similar or the same name or title. It's not uncommon for one religion to take another's words to help recruit and ease a transition...think Easter coming from the pagan goddess "Eostre" for a more Christian example.

Allah is formed by the Arabic al-ila (or something like that) or "the god" literally. Perhaps they used a similar linguistic function to represent the moon deity, whose name was Ilah according to some. It's more than possible that the definite article in Arabic would've been thrown in, but not completely proven either way. Regardless, it's understandable to want to call your supreme being "the god" regardless of prior names. If your god is supreme, then he shouldn't defer to some other false deity, or so they'd think.

Basheer2014-11-15T00:08:25Z

Allah is not a pagan Moon god. Some of the Christians' groups have no other tool to attack Islam to counter the phenomenal growth of Islam in US, UK and European countries.

yeahsure2014-11-14T15:06:57Z

Here is a bit of inconvenient truth and history.

Read The Book of Idols (Kitāb al-Așnām). It was written by the Arab scholar Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi (737 – 819) and describes gods and rites of Arab religion. The text is critical of pre-Islamic religion and decries the state of religious corruption which the Arabs had descended to since the founding of the Kaaba. The book was instrumental in identifying shirk (the sin of polytheism) with "the idolatry of the pre-Islamic Arabs."
Ahmad Zaki Pasha, the Egyptian philologist, discovered the text; he bought the sole extant manuscript at auction in Damascus and the manuscript, one of many in his extensive collection, was donated to the state after his death in 1934. Zaki Pasha announced his discovery at the XIVth International Congress of Orientalists.

It contains key links between Allah and the gods of the Satanic verses. It also tells the evolution of all the rituals muslims adhere to regarding hajj. Great reading, a short book, but I'm sure you won't readily find it on Islamic censored websites.

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