Posted on 03/18/2021 6:18:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Johor ruler Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar today called for the government to proceed with the appeal against the High Court ruling that allows non-Muslims to use the word “Allah” for religious and educational purposes.
“As the head of Islam in Johor, I urge the federal government to appeal the ruling,” he said in a statement today.
Sultan Ibrahim added that he would order the Johor Islamic Council to take any necessary steps to support the appeal.
Citing a Johor fatwa that prohibits non-Muslims from using the word “Allah”, he said the fatwa states that the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims which are not in line with its true meaning as per Islamic teachings, was not allowed.
He added that state enactments also prohibited the use of “Allah” by non-Muslims except in ways allowed for by the law.
The government has already filed its appeal against last week’s High Court ruling that a Dec 5, 1986, home ministry directive to prohibit the use of the words “Allah”, “Baitullah”, “Solat” and “Kaabah” by non-Muslims was illegal and unconstitutional.
The ruling by Judge Nor Bee Ariffin stated that the directive was wrongly issued as it went beyond the aim of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984.
“The law is only to check on undesirable publications. It is not a general law to check on public order, public health and morality,” she said, adding that the home ministry had acted unreasonably, illegally and irrationally.
Nor Bee, who is now a Court of Appeal judge, said that as such, the directive to prevent non-Muslims from using the four words was set aside.
So, /allah/ has been added to the list of dirty words for nonfidels.
I’ve always used /gibberish/ instead of /solat/.
/Sto lat/ is a completely different matter.
Been saying,”alla alla all come free,” since I was a child.
And that’s one of the prime reasons why Singapore exists...
“Allah” is the Arabic word for God.
Arabic speaking Orthodox Christians use “Allah” in their liturgical services.
The problem for Moslems is that their call to prayer aka “the Islamic Creed” states “Allah is the ONLY god”.
Well all I know is that somebody is going to end up with his head chopped off.
Allahu snackbar!!
allah is satan and mohammed is a child rapist.
Well, specifically Allah is al-Illah, namely “the God”.
Illah is Arabic for god. So Apollo was an illah for instance.
Aloha Snackbar
There is no Allah but Satan, and Muhammad was his murdering pedophile.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.