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To: a fool in paradise
Not to the Malaysians. They are prohibiting the use of the word Allah for God in the Christian Bibles in that country.

They write Christian Bibles for Malaysia in Arabic? Seems odd. Malaysians, even Muslim ones, don't regularly speak Arabic, anymore than Pre 60s Catholics spoke Latin, or Eastern Orthodox Christians speak Greek in everyday life. According to the CIA Malysians speak: "Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai". So why would they need "AllaH". (about 60% of them are Muslim, and probably read/memorize the Koran in Arabic, but the Christians wouldn't know Arabic anyway).

121 posted on 11/06/2009 2:23:54 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

Malaysia Withholds ‘Allah Bibles’
BBCNews ^ | November 04th 2009
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122 posted on 11/06/2009 2:24:59 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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