Dear Omega,
Im sorry if you took me the wrong way. I think the most important part of my post which i dont think has been brought up yet (correct me if it has) Is the last part of my post, under the "+++++++++++++++++". Here i'll repaste it. It may seem hard to understand at first, but once you really think about it, it all makes sense:
Long Muslim theological debates prior to the 9th century were centred around the issue of whether the Quran (the word of God according to the Muslims) was created or uncreated (eternal). Now before i explain why such an issue is of such significance, i want to establish the fact that the classical orthodox Islamic view of the Quran is that it is uncreated - however since this complicates issues regarding islamic monotheism (and i'll explain why soon), the Mu'tazilites decided to take the easy way out and concede that the Quran (the word of God) was created. They were slaughtered for this, and considered heretics, and since then no modern Muslim theologian has ever taken the stance that the Quran is created.
Now why is this such a big issue? I'll tell you why. Lets look at the Christian view of monotheism: In Christianity the word of God was manifested through Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14). Christ is considered to be God's ETERNAL word/wisdom/logic. Now Christian theology dictates that God's eternal wisdom/word/logic is an essential part of God;s being, and that is why Christ is a "hypostasis" of the Godhead unity.
Now for the Muslim, he has a) Allah who is eternal, and b) the Quran which is eternal. The question is how can you have 2 eternally existent entities, and still have a strict concept of monotheism, when eternality is what defines God in the first place.
The Muslim must either concede to be a polytheist (i.e. there are 2 separate eternally existent divine entities), or if they follow the Christian logic and consider the Quran a "hypostasis" of Allah, in which case they must concede to be binatarian.
In short, Islamic "monotheism" is extremely complicated compared to the Christian concept. When Muslims say they believe in "one God", this is not the whole picture.
I would, of course, point out that this is not "mud". The classical exegetes spent miles of ink discussing this one. Read Tabari, read Ibn Kathir, read Razi, read al-Ghazzali. Read any classical commentator of either Sunni or Shi'i leaning. If any Muslim here thinks there is not a problem, then my answer to you is that you do not know your own tafsir tradition.
The Mu'tazilite answer is one answer. But they were branded heretics and classical Islam rejected that road. It also has pitfalls of its own.