The term "allah" was also used by the pre-islamic pagans to refer to their moon god.

This is egregious. I looked forward to debating my opponent and eventually realized that his entire argument is copy-pasted. What a shame. What a horrible shame. In fact, I realized that in another thread (source #1), he also copy-pasted his arguments about this issue. Where did he do that from? See source #2. What kind of a debate is this? Does he want me to reply to plagiarism? Is this what he challenged me to and made a limit of 4,000 words? This is monstrous. He has lost all conduct, references, and argumentation credits whatsoever. Nevertheless, I will address his arguments even though I have about 3,200 characters left only. 1. Rebuttals 1.1 Allah in the Bible The Arabic word "Allah" means "God." Any scripture that contains the word "God" will have the word "Allah" once translated to Arabic. This is a fact. The Bible begins with no other word assigned to God but "Allah" when we read it in Arabic: [Genesis 1:1] "Fee al-badi' khalaqa Allahu as-Samaawaat wa al-ard" Allah = God. The Bible says, "In the beginning, Allah created the heavens and the earth." Allah merely means God in Arabic. There is no denial of this. My opponent neither recites the Qur'an in Arabic, nor does he pray in Arabic, nor does he do anything with Arabic, so his claim that Allah is not mentioned in the Bible is false. "Allah" is mentioned in tons of verses- 1.2 Symbol of moon god I agree, ilah means god. If the symbol of the crescent moon is still used today, I have no objection to the argument of my opponent either. I will move on. 1.3 Title of moon god My opponent (or the source he plagiarized from) claimed that the moon god had the title "Al-ilah" or "Allah." This is as false as saying that a Kung Fu learner calls his trainer "God" when he says "yes master." This is claimed by people who have no understanding of even the most basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary. The Arabic word "al" means "the" and "ilah" means "god." Therefore, al-ilah means "the god." There is nothing to suggest otherwise. The word "Allah," however, does not mean "the god." This is absurd. The word "Allah" means "God" with a capital G. It refers to the ultimate Creator, the highest of all beings. Al-ilah,meaning "the god," has nothing to do with Allah, except in similarity of the wording. It is like saying that "pick" is the same as "sick" because those two are similar. Or "bill" is equal to "ill." 1.4 Daughters attributed to Allah? "The Qur'an does not mention Hubal but speaks of 3 daughters attributed to Allah..." This is another great lie. I challenge my opponent to find one single passage in the Qur'an where God mentions any of His daughter. He has no sons nor daughters. This is absurd. 1.5 Hubal My opponent's last plagiarized piece of absurdity claims that the Qur'an never warns against worshiping Hubal. Firstly, see source #3. There are great refutations. Secondly, the Qur'an warns against worshiping anything or anyone other than God Himself. The entire chapter all "Al Ikhlas" meaning The Fidelity (hereby monotheism) makes it clear that there is no god but God, and He is One. [Qur'an 42:21] "What! have they partners (in godhead), who have established for them some religion without the permission of Allah? Had it not been for the Decree of Judgment, the matter would have been decided between them (at once). But verily the Wrong-doers will have a grievous Penalty." In brief, my opponent challenged me to this debate after refusing to accept my own challenge, and then plagiarized his arguments. He also did it in the forums. -- References -- [1] http://www.debate.org... [2] http://islamicide.com... [3] http://www.islamic-awareness.org...