I am a moslem, and my opinion is this:
- If Kami-sama is the one that created the whole thing (including creating
Belldandy, etc.) then (just for the sake of this discussion)-- yes,
Kami-sama is Allah.
- But, If Kami-sama is just a higher level of god than Belldandy, then
Kami-sama would just probably an angel (or arch-angel) -- perhaps like
Jibril (or Gabriel - in Christian). In Islam, we do not have things such as
god (small "g"). We are monotheist, we only believe in one Creator, and
every other being is Allah's creation.


Dennis Sugiarto

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam the man" <shay@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
To: <megami@ml.usagi.org>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Kami-sama = Allah?[WAS What about chapter 166?]


> WBrian wrote:
> > I was wondering something, if your wife doesn't mind
> > me prying. Specifically, within the reality of the
> > series (i.e. not in real life) does she think
> > Kami-sama is Allah? I ask this because Muslims are
> > monotheists, as are Jews and Christians (though I
> > wonder if some of my fellow Christians know what that
> > means), which becomes problematic when you begin
> > talking about a Heaven populated with gods and
> > goddesses.
> [snip]
> > Any other Muslims, Jews, or Christians here on the ML
> > care to weigh in on this?
>
> I spent most of my life in Saudi Arabia, so despite not actually being a
> Muslim I'm far more familiar with Islam than I am with any other religion.
>
> And whether or not AMS can click with Islam to my mind depends on the
person.
> I have known an awful lot of Muslims who certainly would _not_ have
accepted
> AMS as being even vaguely viable within the tenets of Islam, but I think
> that's more of a personal thing on their part; people interpret the Koran
in
> different ways.
>
> I don't think the Islam and AMS are mutually exclusive given that the
various
> "small g" gods and goddesses can just as easily be called "angels", and
> indeed are frequently protrayed _exactly_ within the boundaries of what a
> Muslim or Christian would think of as an angel.
>
> And for my final point, the person who introduced me to AMS was a Muslim,
and
> a bigger AMS fan I have yet to meet.
>
> Sam the man
>
>
>