Khaler wrote:C'mon, there were great differneces between Nordic and Germanic religions, even though they followed the same "pattern" (same kind of gods). They were different religions.
And god is allah, and allah is god. The religions just have different prophets. We believe in christ, they do not, but they do not deny his importance (Jesus is one of their prophets also, not just son of god) unlike the Jews do. So, basically, Allah is much closer to Our God than the Jewish God is.
Also, it makes no sense for any Christian, Jew or Muslim to think that Allah and God and Jahve is not the same. The other just have wrong interpretation of the same divine god. Believeing that they are all the same just strengthens all three religions, as the amount of believers of this divine god (God/Allah/Jahve) is larger.
The differences between Nordic and Germanic religions are so small, that it is even hard to distinguish between these religions, and most scientists wouldn't speak of a Germanic or Nordic religion at all, simply because there wasn't anything that could be called "nordic religion" as opposed to a "germanic religion". The nordic beliefs were part of the Germanic belief (Germanic not meaning "people of Germany" but more like all the people who speak Germanic languages - Scandinavians, Germans (and Austrians and Swiss) and Britons (not the celtic ones of course)), which of course varied regionally, but was never conceived as a comprehensive religion (which is mostly the case in polytheist religions) but an assembly of different faiths to a rather loosely defined background. So differences between "Woden" or "Odin" or "Wotan" could have been there, but they wouldn't be defined by which one of the possible names you'd use to call them.
There is no real distincion between Allah and Jahve and God (Father, not Son or Holy Spirit). What I meant was that while the difference between Odin and Woden would be that the people believing in them would come from different regions, but mostly share the same religion, the difference between Allah and God would not only be that the people believing in them would mostly come from different regions (which is less and less the case), but would also mean that these people have a very different outlook on the rest of their religions, beginning with the Christians believing in trinity - one substance (God) but three persons (Son, Father, Holy Spirit), the believ that God himself became human to rescue us from our sins, and so forth.