CAIR has launched the “Spirit of Islam” fund to help rebuild churches in Malaysia (read the press release). You can donate online or by mailing a check to “CAIR Spirit of Islam Fund, 453 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington DC 20003″ – be sure to write, “Spirit of Islam Fund” in the memo line.
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aziz
I offer my take on the Malaysian fracas over the name of Allah at City of Brass.
Should the UMNO succeed in their bid to overturn the court ruling permitting Christians to use the name Allah, then I humbly suggest to the Christian community that there are 98 other names they can (and should) iterate through. They can start with “al Aziz”
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johnpi
On Dec. 31, Malaysian courts ruled that Christians in that country could use the word ‘Allah’ to refer to God. The government opposed the ruling.
A top Malysian government official spent part of this morning meeting with foreign diplomats trying to explain why the word was off-limits to Christians in Malaysia when it is widely used by Christians in Indonesia and the Middle East.
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johnpi
Bibles seized as Malaysia minorities fear fundamentalism.
Authorities in Malaysia have seized more than 20,000 Bibles in recent months because they refer to God as “Allah,” Christian leaders said Thursday.
The seizures have fed fears among minority groups, which see signs of encroaching Islamic fundamentalism in the predominantly Muslim but multi-racial country.
“There is a growing sense of Islamic assertion, yes,” said the Rev. Hermen Shastri, general-secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia. “There is some concern.”
The Bibles were written in the country’s official language, Malay — in which the word for God is “Allah,” as it is in Arabic. However, Malaysia’s government says the word is exclusive to Islam.
