I was just being factious, Sear. I had though that "Allah" simply meant "the one" or "the divine one". In other words, the... something or other.
Allah, [Arab.,=the God]. Derived from an old Semitic root refering to the Divine and used in the Canaanite El, the Mesopotamian ilu, and the biblical Elohim, the word Allah is used by all Arabic-speaking Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others. Allah, as a deity, was probably known in pre-Islamic Arabia. Arabic chronicles suggest a pre-Islamic recognition of Allah as a supreme God, with the three goddesses al-Lat, al-Uzza, and Manat as his "daughters." The Prophet Muhammad, declaring Allah the God of Abraham, demanded a return to a strict monotheism. Islam supplements Allah as the name of God with the 99 most beautiful names (asma Allah al-husna), understood as nondescriptive mnemonic guides to the Divine attributes.

See S. Friedlander, Ninety-Nine Names of Allah (1978).
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As I understand it, "El" also means "the" as in "El Paso", "The Step". It would make sense, since the name of god was not to be spoken, just to call him "The..." and leave the rest for the hearer to decide what is meant seems about right. It also makes sense for people to decide what they personally mean by "god", since we invented him. So, "The Matrix" might have hit the nail squarely on the head.

John