If you haven't been following closely the developments in Kuala Lumpur, the high court ruled last week that the Herald weekly (a Catholic magazine) had the right to use the word "Allah", after a long-running dispute with the UMNO government who banned it for 3 years.
It shocked Jihad Watch, the rabid, froth-at-the-mouth anti-Islam group but the bastards had the last laugh. Unfortunately.
Well, after 5 churches and 1 school being firebombed by the extremists - the Metro Tabernacle, the Church of Assumption, Life Chapel, Good Shepherd Lutheran and All Saints Church in Taiping - Malaysia's reputation as a "moderate Muslim country" has gone up in flames.
No pun intended.
The white banner at the centre reads: "It is not only our heads that they are stepping on, but they are making fun of Allah too!!! Holy War! Holy War! Allah Is Great! Allah Is Great! Allah Is Great!"
It evidently escapes these village idiots that the Catholics are using the word "Allah" to refer to their God, so at which point are they "making fun"?
SABM and a few other civil initiatives have strongly condemned the cowardly acts.
But UMNO is desperate. They will stoop to anything just to stay in power (and I suspect regaining control through emergency rule), even if it means wrecking this country apart.
5 comments:
Wow! Hmm it would seem if you wanted a reason to fire bomb a Christian church using the word God instead of Allah would be the reason. Jihad things always seem backwards to me. Personally, I think Allah/God is just about ready to wash his hands free of anything human.
A church. In Indonesia.
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i can assure you that we can all kiss foreign investments goodbye.
and malaysians keep asking ourselves... "why we need to pay GST ah"... so many oblivious idiots out there.
it will surely affect 'tourism 2010'
more special draws on tuesday, thursday & friday for 'KTM' !
Greg, I would think so, but evidently not. The hardcore American bible-thumpers believe that Allah should not be used as it would be an insult to Christianity! See what a difference in perspective each person brings.
Walla - God is love. Yes, that is the basis of what Christians believe, I hear.
Zewt - I'm a economic idiot and even *I* know that we as a nation are going to hell in a handbasket.
Anon - so much for the moderate muslim image.
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