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Top Malaysian Court Rules 'Allah' Only for Muslims
[VOA News] Malaysia's highest court has upheld a government ban against a Roman Catholic newspaper using the word "Allah" to refer to God.
Claims that Islam is just another religion to the contrary, the god worshipped by Allanists is a different deity entirely. You can become a Moslem but you can't become something else, whereas a Presbyterian can become a Methodist without having his head chopped off or having to give birth to her children in a dungeon.
Then there's the contrast between "Allah is the greatest of all deceivers" (Qur'an 3:54), the Jewish God who can be negotiated with and keeps his bargains, and Jesus Christ, the sacrificial lamb of God for the sake of all mankind.
The Federal Court ruled in a four-to-three decision Monday that the church's Malay-language newspaper, The Herald, had no grounds to appeal a lower court decision last year that Allah should be reserved exclusively for Mohammedans, because if other religions use the word, it could be confusing and lead Mohammedans to convert.
Apparently the least opportunity will lead to widespread conversion from Islam to most anything else.
At a rate of upwards of 6 million/year to Christianity without any encouragement whatsoever, according to this Al Jazeera interview.
Such conversion is illegal in Malaysia,
...what we call the Roach Motel Principle...
where more than 60 percent of the population of 30 million are Mohammedan - the country's official religion. Just over 9 percent are Christian.
... which leaves 31 percent to wallow in Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Rosicrucianism, Arianism, or the worship of the Cretan Sybelle.
Monday's ruling ends a dispute that has been ongoing since 2007, when Malaysia's Home Ministry threatened to revoke the publishing permit of The Herald for using the Arabic word in its Malay-language edition.
Christians will be be required to refer to God as "Elvis" or "The Great Bob."
The editor of the newspaper, Reverend Lawrence Andrew, said he is "disappointed" by the decision, and said the four judges who voted against the appeal "did not touch on fundamental basic rights of minorities."
If I understand correctly, among the Hebrews the name of God wasn't to be spoken. Jews still often type it as G-d or G*d. They use circumlocutions such as YHWH (the initials expanded to 'Yahweh' but meaning something else) or 'Adonai' (our Lord) or 'Elohim' (Gods, plural).When Moses asked God what to call Him, He replied 'Ehyeh asher ehyeh' which translates as approximately 'I am what I am' or 'I will be what I will be.' From that we can guess that God's 'name' is whatever he pleases it to be. My guess is that it's not Allan (PTUI).
For centuries the Muslims have told their conquered Peoples of the Book that the God they worship is the same as Allah, removing an objection to conversion. It's telling that now they say otherwise.
Christian groups argue that they have used the word Allah to refer to God in their Bibles and songs for many years - long before authorities began enforcing the ban several years ago.
Posted by: Fred 2014-06-25
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