This applies even if your name contains "Allah" within it, as in "Callahan."

"What's your name?"

"Harry Callahan."

"What??? Callahan???? You have insulted Islam!!! You must die!!!!!"

"Feel lucky, punk?"

"Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles," from [1] The Register, with thanks to Richard:

Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name.

This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.

Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters "allah".

Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.