Allah by Any Other Name

Hold the phone is right....telling a Catholic newspaper they can't use the name Allah for GOD All my "multi-cultural" friends have been telling me this...so now they're wrong?...whoa....ditto on this one:

Hold the phone.

First of all, aren’t the Judeo-Christian and Muslim deities one and the same, even if worshiped in very different ways? That seems to be the near-universal opinion; Muslims the world over refer to Allah as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.