User talk:UBX/Islam

What happened to the template?? Stoa 00:01, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Who deleted and protected this template and for what reason? If no clear answer is given I will reinstate it in 24 hrs. Is this a similar atatck to Al Askari Mosque? TPW 06:24, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi. First of all, why is this page deleted? Second, who came with the idea of of making Masjid-al Aqsa a symbol of Islam. The Wikipedia gnerally uses ALLAH in Arabic calligraphy as a symbol of Allah. Bless sins 02:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The template originally had something like that as its symbol, but someone went through a lot of the religious userboxes and replaced text with images for some reason. I reverted it a couple of times, but ended up leaving it be to avoid a conflict. If the userbox is ever reinstated, we can discuss how best to handle it some more then. As for the userbox, it was deleted along with almost all religious userboxes by User:Improv: you can see what remains at Userboxes/Religions. To debate this userbox's deletion, please see Deletion_review/Userbox_debates. -Silence 06:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Category Muslim Wikipedian
I have added this category follwing smililar references for wikipedia user boxes. --Falcon007 09:08, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Just because other people do it doesn't make it right. Categories are for encyclopedic content, not a way for users to group themselves. --Cyde Weys 18:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Two questions
As this is now pretending to be a non-sectarian template, 1) why is it called "User islam" 2) Why is "Allah" written on the template? It's particularly insidious as English-speakers might be stuck saying "Allah" without knowing it.Timothy Usher 00:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Allah is the word "God" in Arabic. This is unlikely to be a problem for people who edit Islam-related articles, because Islam is based on Arabic scriptures. --Tony Sidaway 00:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Of course. I don't have a problem with Allah (who is after all only God) personally, but I shouldn't want this template in my userspace (besides being against userboxes) becuse its design is intended to identify the user as a Muslim.  This is a well-known (to Muslims) mark of sectarian identification.  It may as well read, "This user is a Muslim" in Arabic.  As such, it doesn't match the English text.Timothy Usher 00:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Have you got a more appropriate image in mind? -GTBacchus(talk) 01:03, 6 June 2006 (UTC)