Notwithstanding one’s religion, or the lack thereof, sense dictates that people should try to live in harmony. Perhaps not all of them, that would be putting it too naively.

The rush that has been spreading faster than avian flu, is the combat between the so-dubbed “good”, and the so-dubbed “evil”. A rather dangerous battle but interestingly, a must in this age. I am not precisely the most timely person, therefore I realize that the news are now old concerning Ed Callahan, a random individual, trying, and failing to, register with Yahoo for an e-mail account due to the absolutely shameful inclusion of the word “Allah” in his last name.

Perhaps Yahoo had, and they did have, plausible reasons to try to explain the absurdity of the whole situation. But the problematic bit about this, as far as I can perceive, is that there are hundreds of thousands of people who so happen to have the word Allah in their names. The catch here is that they are not all Muslim. Quite a point, no?

Mr.Callahan, whose religious inclinations cannot be possibly derived from his last name, eventually managed to register for an e-mail address, with Yahoo. Commenting on the crooked policy, he noted “The war on terror is becoming a war on Muslims”.

For the sake of casual argument, suppose the word Allah exists only in names of Muslims, and that this unmistakable combination of letters only coincides with Muslim names, that should be a sight; to see whether or no large e-businesses, and some faces of the world, would show some decency and/or respect.

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