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Malaysia court rules non-Muslims cannot use 'Allah'
BBC ^ | 14 October 2013 Last updated at 10:16 ET

Posted on 10/14/2013 6:11:13 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

A Malaysian court has ruled that non-Muslims cannot use the word Allah to refer to God, even in their own faiths, overturning a 2009 lower court ruling.

The appeals court said the term Allah must be exclusive to Islam or it could cause public disorder.

People of all faiths use the word Allah in Malay to refer to their Gods.

Christians argue they have used the word, which entered Malay from Arabic, to refer to their God for centuries and that the ruling violates their rights.

One Malaysian Christian woman said the ruling would affect the community greatly.

"If we are prohibited from using the word Allah then we have to re-translate the whole Bible, if it comes to that," Ester Moiji from Sabah state told the BBC.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: allah; antichristian; islam; islamicimperialism; islamicsupreamcists; lietothekufir; malaysia; muslims; nonmuslims; rop
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Judges sometimes make pragmatic decisions based on external factors. Like who is most likely to blow up my family.
1 posted on 10/14/2013 6:11:13 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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allah is a poophead.


2 posted on 10/14/2013 6:11:55 PM PDT by katnip (Why Do Democrats Hate Babies?)
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Sick Bastards.


3 posted on 10/14/2013 6:12:59 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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Allah. Allah. Allah. Allah. Allah.

A lot of nonsense.


4 posted on 10/14/2013 6:13:32 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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Image from Wikipedia

Muslim (or Islam - official) 60.4%, Buddhist 19.2%, Christian 9.1%, Hindu 6.3%, Confucianism, Taoism, other traditional Chinese religions 2.6%, other or unknown 1.5%, none 0.8% (2000 census)

Data from Cia World Factbook

5 posted on 10/14/2013 6:14:14 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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From the linked story:

“Malay Muslims make up almost two-thirds of the country’s population, but there are large Hindu and Christian communities.”
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That won’t be the demographic situation for long.


6 posted on 10/14/2013 6:14:43 PM PDT by House Atreides ( D)
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Coming soon to America via Sharia law. Forget free speech or even free thought. Screw Allah! I’m an American where they piss on Christ and put dung on the Virgin Mary and call it art.

Allah can get in line for an ass kicking like anyone else.


7 posted on 10/14/2013 6:15:06 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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Just poking the non Muslims with a stick. Next comes the church burnings.


8 posted on 10/14/2013 6:15:50 PM PDT by JimSEA
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F*ck allah you muzzies.


9 posted on 10/14/2013 6:15:54 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("So the minimum plan for obamacare is 100 bucks a month I like you Obama but nigga I'm broke")
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Show this to all the fools that don’t believe in our Constitution anymore.


10 posted on 10/14/2013 6:16:20 PM PDT by DManA
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11 posted on 10/14/2013 6:17:19 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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Just another reason to hate the bastards


12 posted on 10/14/2013 6:24:47 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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What about Abba that mean Father in Hebrew


13 posted on 10/14/2013 6:26:15 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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Who would really want to use Allah, the goat god, in place of the real God.


14 posted on 10/14/2013 6:34:49 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (When His Arrogance talks out of his a$$, Harry Reid's lips move.)
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So much for the lies to the kufir that it’s all the same god.


15 posted on 10/14/2013 6:35:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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The bigger controversy in those “art” cases wasn't the blasphemy, it was that US taxpayers picked up the tab.

So much for the “separation of church and state”. If they cannot even exhibit a Ten Commandments monument (let alone BUY one) then they cannot exhibit in a publicly owned space or fund (via an NEA grant) an artist who gets his perverse jollies p!ssing on a crucifix and taking pictures of it.

16 posted on 10/14/2013 6:38:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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Alahu Snackbar


17 posted on 10/14/2013 6:38:57 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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If non Muslims cannot say the word Allah, can we call the Muslim deity anything we want without persecution? Don’t think so.


18 posted on 10/14/2013 6:40:20 PM PDT by tob2
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That should knock a hole in the ‘Insider’ movement.


19 posted on 10/14/2013 6:45:47 PM PDT by PAR35
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Muzzies are trying to turn themselves into a special protected class unlike any other using PC BS and the youth’s naiviety to ridicule those who won’t fall in line. Of course the youths are just parrots that arent using critical thinking skills otherwise they’d figure out that they are rooting for the wrong team...


20 posted on 10/14/2013 6:48:18 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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