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Church activists launch signature drive for 'Allah' term.
Brothers and sisters, catholic church in Malaysia are demanding the govt to allow them to use the term "Allah" whenever they refer to God in their prayer, song, worship and in their publications. They also want to use term "Allah" in their bible. The Home Ministry has banned one of their publication for using the term "Allah" and the church has taken the matter to court.
I feel this is some kind of provocation to muslim in Malaysia. Fyi, in Malaysia bible is not allowed to be print in native languange of Malay which is also national languange and they can't use any terms that are similar to Islam. The reason was to avoid confusion among multi ethnic and multi religious Malaysians. This has been the practice for last 50 years but now they are questiong this one after one.
What is your opinion regarding this? Can they (christians) use the term "Allah"?
Brothers and sisters, catholic church in Malaysia are demanding the govt to allow them to use the term "Allah" whenever they refer to God in their prayer, song, worship and in their publications. They also want to use term "Allah" in their bible. The Home Ministry has banned one of their publication for using the term "Allah" and the church has taken the matter to court.
I feel this is some kind of provocation to muslim in Malaysia. Fyi, in Malaysia bible is not allowed to be print in native languange of Malay which is also national languange and they can't use any terms that are similar to Islam. The reason was to avoid confusion among multi ethnic and multi religious Malaysians. This has been the practice for last 50 years but now they are questiong this one after one.
What is your opinion regarding this? Can they (christians) use the term "Allah"?