Hopefully the strength of our institutions and the sensibility of our people will see Australia through the rough patch of intolerant attacks regardless of whether they are racially motivated or criminal in nature. Open mindedness would help to foster greater understanding among diverse cultures and keep criminal urges in check. We certainly do not want to go down the slop like the Malaysian government.
As we all know by now, the word "Allah" has been politicised by a lowly bunch of hypocritical, power hungry and scare mongering Malay Muslims (belonging to a dominant and current governing Malay political party known as UMNO in Malaysia). They refused to accept a High Court decision to allow non-Muslim viz Catholics to use the word "Allah" in their worship or in any religious publication.
Well, Allah existed in pre-Islamic times and was a pagan and cultural moon god in central Asia.
Only the insecure and ignorant would whip up a frenzy over "Allah". That there is such a controversy arising shows the shallow understanding of Malay leaders over Muslim culture and the clear distinction between Arab culture and Muslim theology.
"Confident people do not get confused" -- says Marina Mahathir.
Malaysia is not really the modern and moderate Islamic what it makes out to be. Is this a harbinger to a Nazist Malaysia? Though East Malaysian churches were eventually allowed to use "Allah" for God, many states in West Malaysia tightened the ban the "misuse" of Islamic terms.
- c.g.
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