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urvoice1 23.08.13 - 09:32pm
PUTRAJAYA: The Governments appeal against a High Court ruling to allow Catholic weekly Herald to use the word Allah will go ahead on Sept 10. Counsel for the church Porries Royan earlier submitted that in the 10-point solution signed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak on April 11, 2011, the Government allowed the importation and publication of Bibles in all languages including Bahasa Malaysia with the word Allah without restriction. * +

urvoice1 23.08.13 - 09:33pm
He argued that by extension, the Herald which quotes the Bible, too, should be allowed to use the word. Lawyer for the Terengganu Islamic religious council, Mubashir Mansor, submitted that it was premature to strike out the appeal, as the Cabinets decision to allow the Bible to be distributed in Malay had nothing to do with this appeal. His stand was also adopted by the Islamic religious councils from the states of Selangor, Kedah, Johor, Federal Territories and Malacca, which were made interve * +

urvoice1 23.08.13 - 09:33pm
The Government argued that Allah should be used exclusively by Muslims. * +

urvoice1 23.08.13 - 09:35pm
Sisters in Islam executive director Ratna Osman felt the Government should have a dialogue with the church instead of continuing with the court process. It is also in the interest of the Government to withdraw (the appeal) because Malaysia in the international spotlight as it is the only country that imposes such a restriction. We dont want Islam to be known as a religion that restricts just because of language use, she said. Ratna urged the Government not to bow to pressure from extremists as * +

urvoice1 23.08.13 - 09:35pm
as this went against the interest of a multi-religious and multi-racial country. * +

urvoice1 23.08.13 - 09:37pm
once again, the government get involved in legal issues when it suits, I haven't seen them overturning or appealing court decisions when it favours Islam. If an example exists, maybe someone has a link they could post * +

urvoice1 23.08.13 - 09:59pm
There are many (misleading) statements by non-Christians who claim that we should not use the word, because it is an exclusive Muslim term for the God of Islam and can be used only by Muslims. This is a situation peculiar to Malaysia, as elsewhere in the Muslim world, Arabic-speaking Christians use the word Allah * +

urvoice1 23.08.13 - 10:00pm
Christians themselves are sometimes ignorant, because unless we pray in Bahasa Malaysia, we pray to God in our own language. In English services, for example, nowhere do we use the word Allah. * +

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