In a related story to my earlier posts Brussels bans 9/11 protest against Islam and ‘Muslim Jesus’ to get primetime billing on British TV, in an interview with Dutch TV, the Roman Catholic Bishop of the southern Dutch town of Breda has called on Christians to refer to God as “Allah”.

“Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn’t we all say that from now on we will call God ‘Allah’?” Bishop Martinus Petrus Maria Muskens asked television viewers in the Netherlands, which is still a majority Christian country.

“If Muslims and Christians address God with the same name, this contributes to harmonious living between both religions,” added a statement on the website of his Diocese.

Muskens is known for previous controversial remarks including a suggestion that the poor should steal bread.