After the word Allah, more world NON-MUSLIMS CANNOT USE

[halsey02]

Question: Can the Muslims in Malaysia use the word GOD to substitute for Allah when they communicate Islam in English?

One Malaysian told me this decades ago, that THEY have a strange religion in which their________ can only understand ARABIC.

 

[munchlanchau]

My coming new moniker will one of those words..

 

[greenies]

every religion has their own GOD.
There's Jesus, Kuan Yin, Budhha, elephant God etc, and there is Allah

so, if every religion keeps to their own God, then there's no trouble
who creates the trouble here .. why use other religion's GOD name .. ??

Then, how could we describe Allah in English term?
Muslim God or Islamic God... Do they accept those terms as well?

 

[greenies]

If they are penalizing others for the use of their Islam words, then they should be ashamed of using others such as God, Holy etc.

 

[tanwahtiu]

In Buddhism, there are only 4 denominations. To the Nanking murders (Japs) Buddha is God and the Thai (nation of prostitutes) Buddha is a teacher. The rest Buddha is a tang kee like in Singapore and Taiwan (the Hokkien ass-holes).

In Christianity there are 240 main denominations and add 3,000 in USA (stupid angmohs). Christianity is the most messy and corrupt religion with so many splits and shits and even they make fun of their own useless God creation (what a fuck).

Worst! they steal camera lens to claim there is only 1 God.

Buddhism not religion.....it rejects the idea of God and soul.....Kuan Yin and Buddha not gods........

 

[looneytan]

we demand that mooslim can not use the word fuck

 

[kezgtree]

but some are more extreme to claim their God is the true god....whatever it is...nobody has ever come back from dead ..and report..Quote LKY

 

[AhMeng]

we demand that mooslim can not use the word fuck

so they use the word poke?

 

[Ash007]

This article shows how ridiculous the whole situation. In the effort to preserve the "race" it went against everything the religion is suppose to be about.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/oct/16/malaysian-allah-ban-minorities-in-place

The Malaysian 'Allah' ban is about putting minorities in their place
The 'Allah' ruling is as ridiculous as a UK law saying that 'God' is a Christian designation, and other religions can't use it
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Nesrine Malik
Nesrine Malik
theguardian.com, Thursday 17 October 2013 00.25 AEST
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Malaysian Muslims
'This cynical, politically motivated ban, and not everyone using the same name for God, is the real threat to Islam.' Photograph: Teh Eng Koon/AP
"Allah" means God, unless you are a non-Muslim Malaysian, in which case you have to find another word. After a recent court ruling in the country, Allah can now be used only to refer to the Muslim God, and non-Muslims (mainly the Malaysian Christian Catholic community and press) have been banned from using it. It is a decision that has inflamed opinion among minority religions and disheartened Muslims. Apart from all the practical implications of this (re-printing Bibles and so on), there are other intangible but more heartfelt grievances. At first glance it looks like a petty scuffle over semantics, but the roots of the dispute go deep into the issue of national identity.

The ruling was flimsily justified by the "risk" of conversion. Announcing the change, the judge said: "It is my judgment that the possible and most probable threat to Islam, in the context of this country, is the propagation of other religions to the followers of Islam." But the ban is less about religion than about putting non-Malay minorities in their place, subordinating their status to that of Muslims, the majority population.

The issue is made more complex by the fact that "Allah" is an Arabic loan-word and, when imported into other languages, can come to be thought of as a proper noun. On my first day at a British school, a teacher going around the class and asked us what our respective non-Christian gods were called. When I floundered, she exasperatedly told me that my god was called Allah, and I couldn't quite explain to her why that felt wrong. To me, Allah just meant "God" in Arabic. It wasn't a name.

The shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, is often translated as "There is no god but God" – but the literal and more accurate translation is "There is no God but the God". Allah means, simply, God with the definite article in front of it. It is not a name, like Vishnu, or a title, like Buddha. It is also pre-Islamic, pre-Abrahamic even, having originated at a time when it referred to a chief god among many.

There is not much controversy about the usage or interchangeability of the word Allah with other words for God in Arab countries where there is a similar Muslim majority. But that is simply because everyone speaks Arabic, and so there is clearer understanding of the literal meaning of the word, making it harder to imbue with sectarianism. In that context a ban would be as ridiculous as the UK passing a law saying that "God" was a Christian designation, and therefore other religions had to find their own words for their own deities.

The Malaysian ban follows a depressingly familiar pattern of using religion as a pretext for promoting the status of the majority ethnic group and thereby monopolising the national character. The anger expressed by non-Muslims in Malaysia since the ruling and their insistence on being able to continue to use the word Allah do not constitute an aggressive encroachment on some hallowed Muslim space. It is a re-assertion of a pluralistic national identity and of a determination to use a word that is Malay, rather than Muslim.

The paradox of all this is that to be possessive of the word Allah betrays the sense of unity – tawheed – that the term embodies, and that is at the heart of monotheism. It creates separate gods for separate religions, and directly contradicts the message of the prophet Muhammad. But perhaps that is the point of what must be a cynical, politically motivated ban. This, and not everyone using the same name for God, is the real "possible and most probable" threat to Islam.

 

[AhMeng]

The judges did Malaysia a disservice.

 

[oli9]

Phew! Im glad they didnt ban words like "RASUAH", "MAKAN DUIT" & "BABI"

 

[IamTiong]

so they use the word poke?

They use the word "anwar".

 

[Capano2121]

Buddhism not religion.....it rejects the idea of God and soul.....Kuan Yin and Buddha not gods........

Buddhism is a way of life! And definitely not a religion!

 

[escher]

Is the perineum of steffychun haram?

Is it halai for steffychun cunt to be penetrated by a dog?

 

[kezgtree]

It's a teaching..the most merciful and the most tolerance is part of the teaching..unlike some other religion claim to be but stated that you will be punish...and cannot tolerate other religion...enuf said.