Summary
Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmady was arrested for performing without a hijab during a virtual YouTube concert, defying Iran’s strict dress code for women.
Her performance, viewed over 1.4 million times, featured her singing in a sleeveless black dress, sparking widespread praise online for her courage.
Authorities have not disclosed her charges or location, though her lawyer and two bandmates confirmed arrests.
This comes amid ongoing resistance to Iran’s mandatory hijab law, which has faced increased criticism since the 2022 protests over Jina Mahsa Amini’s death.
Not really.
I was convinced of the same thing for years but I was explained in detail why the entity the muslims praise is not the same jews and christians praise.
The key to split the hairs in this matter is locked with the way arabic is written an read, that tends to be poorly carried when translated.
There is a passage in the quran where the islamic supreme presents and names itself as, literally, “Allah”. The word is usually translated as “God” but it is incorrect, as it is proper name and not a title, in contrast with the christian/jewish deity, that never reveals its name and instead only responds to titles and honorifics.
That is the gist of it. It had a bit more of detail but it’s been a while.
IMO this is splitting a hair that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. If you’re going to be going into that much detail over the exact wording used to refer to the Abrahamic god, you’re gonna have to go all the way back to Yahweh being a local warrior god for the Hebrews that imperfectly merged with the chief Canaanite god El (hence all the names that invoke El like Israel, Samuel, Daniel, Elijah, etc.).
This El is thought to be - by a majority, not definitively - an etymological root of Allah (al-ilah, “il” being the cognate of “El”).
If we’re going all the way to historical root words, they ultimately worship the same god again, and it’s the chief deity of a now-defunct polytheistic religion.
FIY, Al-Lah literally means the ( one and only ) God. It’s never, meant as a name the way you understand it, likes like a transcendent title, a position in a way. It’s never been a literal name.
How infallible you think the Quran and Bible are is almost directly connected to whether or not you believe them to be written with any sort of continuity or purpose, which kinda makes it really goddamn hard to know what someone thinks a passage represents.
The range is all the way from:
“This group of ignorant goat fuckers called theirs Allah”
To
“God spoke to them and said its name was Allah.”
Guess it depends on who’s holding the hook and doing the defending.