8 churches bombed/attacked by muslims because the word allah was "misused" (1 Viewer)

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1)Malaysia 'Allah' Ruling Sparks Arson Attacks on 8 Churches

Police on Monday reported the eighth arson attack on a church in Malaysia since the High Court ruled that non-Muslims can use the word “Allah” to refer to God.

Attacks on churches and other Christian-owned buildings occurred after a High Court judge ruled on Dec. 31, 2009, that the word “Allah” is not exclusive to Islam and that the government’s Home Ministry is “not empowered” to ban non-Muslims from using the word.

The case began two years ago when The Herald, the Roman Catholic Church’s weekly Malaysian publication, filed a suit against the government. The Herald has argued that the word “Allah” predates Islam and is used by Arabic-speaking non-Muslims to refer to God. It filed the suit in order to continue to use the word “Allah” in its Malay language newspaper.

The government had issued the ban on the use of “Allah” by non-Muslims in the 1980s, but the law was never enforced. Just in the last few years the government began enforcing the law and confiscating Bibles that contained the word “Allah.”

In response to the High Court’s decision, the government appealed the ruling on Jan. 4. It maintains that “Allah” is an Islamic word and if used by non-Muslims could confuse Muslims into converting to those faiths.
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2) Malaysian churches fire-bombed as 'Allah' row escalates

The administrative offices of one church were destroyed by a firebomb attack and one of the other two churches attacked was slightly damaged. Some Muslim groups are angry at a court decision allowing non-Muslims to use the word Allah to refer to God.

The controversy stems from a ban on a Catholic newspaper, The Herald, using the word Allah in its Malay-language edition.The Kuala Lumpur High Court struck down the three-year old ban on non-Muslims using of the word Allah.

But some vocal groups, including the Muslim Youth Movement, Abim, have cast the use of the word Allah as a surreptitious effort on the part of Christians to try to seduce Muslims away from Islam.

The government will take whatever steps it can to prevent such acts. Church officials say that although the word Allah originated in Arabic, Malays have used it for centuries to refer generally to God, and Arabic-speaking Christians used it before Islam was founded, reports the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott.

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The argument has continued in the media and the courts for months but had not become violent - until assailants on motorbikes were seen smashing the windows of the Metro Tabernacle Church, a Protestant church in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
The ground floor office of the three-storey church was destroyed in a blaze a little after midnight, said Kevin Ang, a church spokesman.

The government has appealed against the court verdict and the High Court has suspended the decision's implementation until the appeal is heard.
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What are your opinions? Contrary to what the muslim activists said, I don't think a specific word can change the faith of a person. I do think that these bombers were too sensitive and irrational in their behaviour towards a word. "Allah" is arabic and not even malay. It just saddens me to see innocent people get hurt and buildings destroyed.

Also the danish cartoonist who drew the allah cartoons was almost killed by a muslim activist last month. Thank goodness he had a panic room and the police came. It's sad that this world is becoming so irrational and sensitive, everyone should just have some Corona or Hahns Super Dry to chillax

 

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muslims dont even know what the term allah means.

 

[JonathanM]

We have a thread for this ok

 

[Planck]

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