Tipping point of "tolerance"?
Author Profile Page gravenimage | January 7, 2010 7:57 PM | Reply
As I have noted here many times, Arabic-speaking Christians were using the word "Allah" for God from time immemorial -- the whole controversy over this in Malaysia is just another supremacist initiative.
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True. In fact, the tiny remnant of Jews surviving in the Muslim world such as Yemen are often Arabic speakers. I had a Jewish friend in college who had spent a summer in Israel helping new immigrants settle. She was surprised when she realized that her Yemeni clients referred to God as "Allah".
"Allah" is a *pre-Islamic* Arabic word—whatever most Muslims might believe—and is used to mean "God" by most Arabic speakers, whatever their faith.
The odd thing is that Muslims infiltrating the West-and their clueless non-Muslims supporters in the "inter-faith" movement—have encouraged Infidels in Europe to use the word "Allah" as just another word for "God".
This would seem to be hypocritical—or at least contradictory—except that both stances promote Muslim supremacy under differing circumstances.
from above:
The High Court last week ruled in favour of the Catholic "Herald" newspaper which has used "Allah" as a translation for "God" in its Malay-language section. The government has said the word should be used only by Muslims.
The ruling was suspended on Wednesday pending an appeal, after the government argued the decision could cause racial conflict in multicultural Malaysia, where Muslim Malays make up 60 percent of the population....
Racial? What race is Islam? What race is Christianity?
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Islam is *not* a race—except in Malaysia, where it is. *All* ethnic Malays are considered, °by state law*, to be Muslim. It is difficult for anyone of any group—Chinese, Indian, Malay, whatever—to apostize in Malaysia, as it is in virtually any Muslim nation—but it is especially difficult for ethnic Malays, who are considered born into Islam.
Imagine the horror of being unable to leave Islam *because of your ethnicity*-and yet some idiots consider Malaysia a "moderate" Muslim nation.
The fact that the word "Allah" is going to be used to denote the Christian God in the Malay-language section of a Catholic newspaper—the fact that a Catholic newspaper *has* a Malay-language section—especially enrages Malaysian Muslims.
Source: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/muslims-fire-bomb-malaysian-church-for-using-the-word-allah.html, Retrieved 08 January 2010.
As I have noted here many times, Arabic-speaking Christians were using the word "Allah" for God from time immemorial -- the whole controversy over this in Malaysia is just another supremacist initiative.
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True. In fact, the tiny remnant of Jews surviving in the Muslim world such as Yemen are often Arabic speakers. I had a Jewish friend in college who had spent a summer in Israel helping new immigrants settle. She was surprised when she realized that her Yemeni clients referred to God as "Allah".
"Allah" is a *pre-Islamic* Arabic word—whatever most Muslims might believe—and is used to mean "God" by most Arabic speakers, whatever their faith.
The odd thing is that Muslims infiltrating the West-and their clueless non-Muslims supporters in the "inter-faith" movement—have encouraged Infidels in Europe to use the word "Allah" as just another word for "God".
This would seem to be hypocritical—or at least contradictory—except that both stances promote Muslim supremacy under differing circumstances.
from above:
The High Court last week ruled in favour of the Catholic "Herald" newspaper which has used "Allah" as a translation for "God" in its Malay-language section. The government has said the word should be used only by Muslims.
The ruling was suspended on Wednesday pending an appeal, after the government argued the decision could cause racial conflict in multicultural Malaysia, where Muslim Malays make up 60 percent of the population....
Racial? What race is Islam? What race is Christianity?
...................
Islam is *not* a race—except in Malaysia, where it is. *All* ethnic Malays are considered, °by state law*, to be Muslim. It is difficult for anyone of any group—Chinese, Indian, Malay, whatever—to apostize in Malaysia, as it is in virtually any Muslim nation—but it is especially difficult for ethnic Malays, who are considered born into Islam.
Imagine the horror of being unable to leave Islam *because of your ethnicity*-and yet some idiots consider Malaysia a "moderate" Muslim nation.
The fact that the word "Allah" is going to be used to denote the Christian God in the Malay-language section of a Catholic newspaper—the fact that a Catholic newspaper *has* a Malay-language section—especially enrages Malaysian Muslims.
Source: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/muslims-fire-bomb-malaysian-church-for-using-the-word-allah.html, Retrieved 08 January 2010.
