Weapons of Mass Confusion

I am, as you know, in the business of security and insecurity. Insecurity is a big business now because it makes people buy security. Fear isn't just an emotion or a weapon. It is also a marketing plan.

The Times today had a good Op Ed on how we here in America don't translate allah as god, but as allah, so we tend to create a separation between one set of monotheisms and another. We even translate the from the Arabic the phrase "there is no god but God" as "there is no god but Allah", a nice trick if you can get away with it, but also a weapon of mass confusion.

As one of the theistically challenged, I distrust all expressions of the divine. (I met Divine, actually, when he/she was in "Women Behind Bars".) Nevertheless, you have to communicate clearly, which we don't when looking at our own questions of fear and loathing.