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  • johnpi 8:32 am on January 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Malaysian Muslim groups plan nationwide protest over ‘Allah’ ruling.

    Muslim youth movement Abim and the National Association of Muslim Students (PKPIM) are planning to hold a nationwide protest this Friday against the High Court decision to allow Catholic weekly Herald to use “Allah” in its Bahasa Malaysia edition.
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    “After performing Friday prayers, we will perform solat hajat (prayers of need) before we proceed for the peaceful assembly,” said Raimi, who expected a turnout of at least 3,000 people.

    “We only want to express how Muslims feel about the court judgment and how it has touched on the sensitivity of Muslims,” he added.

    Raimi said that Abim is also mobilising members across the country to hold similar protests at all state mosques.

    He described the planned protests as “purely Muslim NGO’s initiatives” and did not involve political parties.

     

  • johnpi 2:24 pm on October 29, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
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    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.

     

  • aasem 6:39 am on October 29, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    My review of Dawkins’ God Delusion.

     

  • buzz 4:19 am on August 20, 2009 | 18 Permalink | Reply
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    sad bastard

    sad bastard

    Another scholar who, with apparently good intentions (?), is completely mixed up about Islam. American Journalist Robert Wright is on the circuit pimpin his scrawl, The Evolution of God like there is no Final Judgement.

    He seems to get Gabriel and God mixed up in his recap of Sura 53: An-Najm. Then he goes on to say that scholars generally agree the Qur’an has been corrupted. OK. Enter Ayatullah with the appropriate bounty and you, Robert, can see if Padma Lakshmi will marry another troll on the run. Good luck with that.

    The Koran describes the glorious being—the angel Gabriel, apparently—coming within “two bows’ length” of Muhammad, after which Gabriel “revealed unto His slave that which He revealed.” At this moment, the Koran tells us, Muhammad’s “heart lied not (in seeing) what it saw.” Maybe not, but this is not a question we are in a position to (More …)

     

  • plimfix 6:55 am on May 21, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
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    “Admitting to myself that I cannot know everything, I’ve found a way to reconcile faith with scepticism.” So Says Nesrine Malik on Guardian CiF, in a post entitled, Agnosticism was what saved my faith. I sometimes think Britain’s favourite word is “perhaps,” mumbled in a manner aimed to cause least offence. Any intellectual position can start from uncertainty, but it is possible to arrive at a compelling stand which puts you at odds with alternative views. There may be room for uncertainty and other perspectives may be valid, but that’s no reason not to fight your corner. I think the important points are (1) you can believe in God – or not – and neither perspective is evidence of moral/intellectual weakness, and (2) let’s not shoot one another over the issue.

     

  • plimfix 12:04 am on May 7, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    During my teacher training, the local community of the 98% Muslim school where I was first placed was still buzzing with the story of a tomato that contained a message from Allah, discovered in nearby Bradford. The pious hospitality offered by the family who discovered this tomato message to the thousands of visitors who came to their home contrasts with the response of Paul Grayhek of Idaho, who on discovering the basalt wall in his backyard resembled God’s hand, decided to flog it on eBay for $16,866+. I wonder if there were any Wahhabis among the bidders…

     

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