The “UK's fastest-growing newspaper”, Metro, in an article titled 'Muslims want to reclaim “Allahu Akbar” from extremists', tells us that “'Allahu Akbar’ means 'God is greatest'.” Well, that's an improvement because many non-Muslims (at least those involved in the Church of Interfaith) usually translate it as “God is great”; as does one tweet used in the article itself. Of course, that means that such an innocuous translation loses a very important aspect of this Islamic phrase. It's this accurate or genuine translation which gives the game away. That is, the phrase is comparative to other gods and religions. The Muslims who use it are effectively saying: Allah is greater than your god! That's how it was originally used some 1,400 years ago and that's how it's used today. Thus, the words “Allahu Akbar” are a statement of Islamic supremacism and war. And...(Read Full Article)