Odd that they'd regard Islam as idol-worshipping when it's one of the least idolatrous religions around. I bet Westboro Baptist Church has crucifixes on the wall.
As Cheetah points out, its because they see Allah as an idol
Yeah but an idol is a statue (generally, anyway). So although they can claim Allah is a false or non-existent deity, or perhaps even a demon or whatever, the charge of idolatry wont stick. Of course I don't expect common sense or logical consistency from the Westboro nutters. They're notorious for being loopy.
Its quite an irony really, once upon a time practically everyone on Earth was an idolater, or animist crude idolater type religious follower. This went on for some thousands of years, almost 99% of human existence. Then came stuff like Zoroastrianism and Judaism, both of which somehow shunned idolatry and polytheism-but that didn't impact much of the world. The Ancient Jews, unlike the modern Jews, had little intellectual or technological achievements, compared to Ancient Greece and Rome, but quite a sneering pride about the fact that they didn't worship idols.Zoroastrianism also invented a separate and distinct Satan, Ahriman, as opposed to polytheistic gods who had human virtues and frailities, and gods were worshipped both with their +ive and-ive attributes.
Christianity, and to a far grater extent Islam made idolatry and polytheism, once the universal form of worship, a derogatory act and accusations of idolatry an insult.
I wonder, if the world were to turn very dominantly atheist some centuries\millennia later, would theism be a universally dirty word?
After all, if monotheism is an improvement over polytheism because it subtracts all Gods but one, and non idolatry an improvement over idolatry as they get rid of
physical image\s of God, shouldn't getting rid of the last remaining God as well as his
mental image\s be the Ultimate improvement?