Why God is not a girl...

[Rayaan]

In the origins of YHWH in the Canaanite pantheon,and as the god of the Jews he has always been seen as a male...

If YHWH has pagan roots, then perhaps He was not the original god of the Jews, at least.

What's interesting is that the Hebrew word for god is name is etymologically related to Allah. "Elah" is the hebrew word for God, and the Aramaic equivalent of it is "Alaha,", taken from the Biblical Aramaic "Elaha" - and since Arabic is a sister language of the two languages - Allah is the Arabic cognate of the Aramaic word "Alaha." I read that even long before the time of Muhammad, the Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians used the term Allah for God, i.e. the same term as it is used in the Quran, as opposed to "YHWH."

The term Allāh is derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- "the" and ʾilāh "deity, god" to al-lāh meaning "the [sole] deity, God" (ὁ θεὸς μόνος, ho theos monos). Cognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic. Biblical Hebrew mostly uses the plural form (but functional singular) Elohim. The corresponding Aramaic form is ʼĔlāhā אֱלָהָא in Biblical Aramaic and ʼAlâhâ ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ in Syriac as used by the Assyrian Church, both meaning simply "God."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah#Etymology

You'll see that the words "Elah," "Eloah," and "Alaha" appear in many places in the Tanakh (Jewish canon) such as in the books Ezra, Daniel, and Jeremiah when referring to the god of the Jews. Therefore, it's possible that the very first Jews didn't call their god YHWH, but something like "Alaha" or "Elah," which simply mean "God." YHWH may have been a later introduction.

The Quran itself affirms that the Islamic god, Allah, is the same as the Judeo-Christian one:

Do not argue with the People of the Book [the Jews and Christians] except in the kindest possible manner, save those of them who are oppressive, and say: “We believe in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to you; our God and your God are one and the same, and to Him do we submit ourselves. (29:46)

As for Allah being a male, again, my point was that the word "He" is used only in a figurative sense, just like when sometimes people talk about nature or the earth with a "she." Also, the verses that I quoted on the first page in this thread negates the idea that Allah has a gender or that He is a male, specifically. In fact, it shows that we cannot understand His nature at all.