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Which is just fine 'cuz around here we tend to call him Moloch or The Evil One anyway. We tried refering to him as little Al but that just didn't seem to fit.
at Dr Bulldog:
Malaysia Restores ‘Allah’ Ban for Christians
Monday, March 02, 2009 - via Fox News
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Malaysian government will issue a new decree restoring a ban on Christian publications using the word “Allah” to refer to God, officials said Sunday.
Home Affairs Minister Syed Hamid Albar said a previous Feb. 16 decree that allowed Christian publications to use the word as long as they specified the material was not for Muslims was a mistake, the national Bernama news agency reported.
The about-turn came after Islamic groups slammed the government and warned that even conditional use of the word by Christians would anger Muslims, who make up the country’s majority.
A senior ministry official confirmed Syed Hamid’s comments, saying there were “interpretation mistakes” in the Feb. 16 decree that led to the confusion.
“‘Allah’ cannot be used for other religions except Islam because it might confuse Muslims. This is the ministry’s stand and it hasn’t changed,” the official, who declined to be named citing protocol, told The Associated Press.
The official said the ministry was likely to issue a new decree to annul the old one and effectively re-impose the ban.
The dispute has become symbolic of increasing religious tensions in Malaysia, where 60 percent of the 27 million people are Muslim Malays. A third of the population is ethnic Chinese and Indian, and many of them practice Christianity.
Malaysia’s minorities have often complained that their constitutional right to practice their religions freely has come under threat from the Malay Muslim-dominated government. They cite destruction of Hindu temples and conversion disputes as examples. The government denies any discrimination.
The Herald, the Roman Catholic Church’s main newspaper in the country, had filed a legal suit to challenge the government ban on non-Muslims using the word.
The Herald argued that the Arabic word is a common reference for God that predates Islam and has been used for centuries as a translation in Malay.
Rev. Lawrence Andrew, the editor of the Herald, said Sunday the publication had not been notified of the government’s change in policy.
“Unfortunately the apparent relief that we imagined we were able to enjoy has been short-lived,” he said.
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Malaysia Restores Ban Prohibiting Christians from Referring to God as Allah
Which is just fine 'cuz around here we tend to call him Moloch or The Evil One anyway. We tried refering to him as little Al but that just didn't seem to fit.
at Dr Bulldog:
Malaysia Restores ‘Allah’ Ban for Christians
Monday, March 02, 2009 - via Fox News
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Malaysian government will issue a new decree restoring a ban on Christian publications using the word “Allah” to refer to God, officials said Sunday.
Home Affairs Minister Syed Hamid Albar said a previous Feb. 16 decree that allowed Christian publications to use the word as long as they specified the material was not for Muslims was a mistake, the national Bernama news agency reported.
The about-turn came after Islamic groups slammed the government and warned that even conditional use of the word by Christians would anger Muslims, who make up the country’s majority.
A senior ministry official confirmed Syed Hamid’s comments, saying there were “interpretation mistakes” in the Feb. 16 decree that led to the confusion.
“‘Allah’ cannot be used for other religions except Islam because it might confuse Muslims. This is the ministry’s stand and it hasn’t changed,” the official, who declined to be named citing protocol, told The Associated Press.
The official said the ministry was likely to issue a new decree to annul the old one and effectively re-impose the ban.
The dispute has become symbolic of increasing religious tensions in Malaysia, where 60 percent of the 27 million people are Muslim Malays. A third of the population is ethnic Chinese and Indian, and many of them practice Christianity.
Malaysia’s minorities have often complained that their constitutional right to practice their religions freely has come under threat from the Malay Muslim-dominated government. They cite destruction of Hindu temples and conversion disputes as examples. The government denies any discrimination.
The Herald, the Roman Catholic Church’s main newspaper in the country, had filed a legal suit to challenge the government ban on non-Muslims using the word.
The Herald argued that the Arabic word is a common reference for God that predates Islam and has been used for centuries as a translation in Malay.
Rev. Lawrence Andrew, the editor of the Herald, said Sunday the publication had not been notified of the government’s change in policy.
“Unfortunately the apparent relief that we imagined we were able to enjoy has been short-lived,” he said.
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Trivial censorship continues in an Islamic regime, with the latest victim being manga/comics based on Japan's Ultraman: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia–After fighting skyscraper-sized aliens and monsters for nearly five decades, Ultraman’s heroic service...
- Malaysia Bans Christians From Using Word “allah” (in Malay Language Allah Means God)
But, but, I thought they said Allah and the Judeo-Christian God were the same god. Fuck Muslims and their fucking pig of a "god". From UCA News, A Catholic weekly newspaper in Malaysia this week lost its latest legal battle over the right to use...
-
Religion of peace' angered by Christians plan to introduce another official religion in Malaysia From Will at The Other News: (Al-Arabia).Malaysia’s government was seeking ways on Monday to defuse religious tensions following reports that church...
- Pigs Heads Left At Malaysian Mosques
From the New York Times: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Worshippers found severed heads of pigs at two Malaysian mosques Wednesday following a spate of firebomb attacks on churches amid a dispute over the use of the word ''Allah'' by Christians,...
- Malaysia Unraveling
I normally don't make it a habit of quoting anything from the Old Media, but I have to make an exception to that little rule of mine today. You know a situation has to be getting bad here in the Islamic Republic of Malaysia when even the MSM in the...