Churches Attacked in Malaysia?

 By: ryan    1:45 PM     No comments

Yes, there are total 8 attacks on churches reported so far and I believe the number will increase. The first attack started on last Friday amid the dispute over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims to refer "Allah" as God and furthermore this makes many Malaysian Muslims angry about the Dec 31 2009 High Court decision on overturning a government ban on the Herald using the word "Allah" .

About 9 percent of Malaysia's 28 million people are Christian, most of whom are ethnic Chinese or Indian. Muslims make up 60 percent of the population and most are ethnic Malays.

One thing I just don't really understand is, why only now the government banned the word "Allah" after it has been used for so many years? Why only now that the government need to confiscated 10,000 copies of bibles that had the word "Allah"? And why countries like Eygpt and Indonesia (the largest Muslim's nation in the world) have no problem or say on this issue? Where else it is only a very small issue. If really that the Christian's publications has misused the word, then the government should do something about it which according to the law, summons can be issues but not by banning the words or books.

Truly all are because of some extremist, more accurate, selfish extremist that just wanted to make some issues and racial tension out of nothing better for them to do. I believe what the court ruled out is definitely according to the constitutional rules in Malaysia. Why protest?

What I hate the most is the government with those silly ministers of theirs only open their wide mouths and asked everyone to calm down. is this going to be helpful? Do something before some churh being burn down. More over this issue is all started by no other but the government itself. To the extend that, some mosques even put some banner indicates that "Perkataan Allah adalah cuma untuk orang Islam" (The word Allah is just for Islam), and what did the government view on this? Nothing, and this statement really seem treasonable to the non-Muslim.

Fine then, with this statement, I would like to ask those Muslims who claimed that this word belong to theirs, so when we sing the state's anthem, for example in Perak, what should we do then?

Malay

Dilanjutkan Allah usianya Sultan

Adil dan murah memerintah watan

Ditaati rakyat kiri dan kanan

Iman yang soleh Allah kurniakan

Allah berkati Perak Ridzuan

Allah selamatkan Negeri dan Sultan.

English translation

May Allah grant our Sultan with a long life

Who rules our peoples justly and kindly

Served by our loyal society

May Allah bless us with pure and noble souls

May Allah bless Perak Darul Ridzuan

Allah save the State and the Sultan. (Wikipedia)

Note that, the word "Allah" alone already repeated for 4 times. What do we do now since the word "Allah" belong and only can be use by the Muslims? Do the citizens of Perak, their school's children, their organizations workers who are non-Muslim just skip the word when they sing the anthem? Or they just keep quite? Or they need not sing the anthem at all?

Have some common sense, all this while, from 1957 till now, non-Muslim and Muslim from this country have been using the word "Allah" and the non-Muslim accepted it as the way they are, why only now these brats (those who set fires, throw Molotov bottles, and NGO's that overturning the court's decision) need to make fuss out of this? Don't you think that destroying a Holy place by protesting over your unsatisfactory is a great sin that your own God will condemn too? The word actually doesn't belong to anyone. Just that, we should respects the word, used it in a proper meaning, that all. Furthermore, God in the first place should not be represent in words, the 26 alphabets. Aren't they?

I sincerely hope that, religions will not used as a channel to destroys the harmonious of this multiracial country.

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