The Christians in Malaysia have no one to speak up for them. Western Christian leaders ignore them, fearful of offending their Muslim partners in a futile and self-congratulatory “dialogue.”
“Malaysian church hit with petrol bombs,” from Sky News, January 27 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Two petrol bombs have been thrown at a Malaysian church, igniting fears of more violence as a religious dispute over the use of the word ‘Allah’ rages.
An unidentified assailant hurled the petrol bombs at a shrine fronting the Church of the Assumption in the northern state of Penang, said the church’s priest Dominic Santhiyagu.
Only one ignited, causing just minor damage, he said.
But the incident stirred memories of a wave of such attacks on places of worship – mostly churches – four years ago during an earlier bout of divisions over the dispute in the Muslim-majority country.
‘We are shocked by the incident. We must remain calm and pray,’ Santhiyagu said.
Santhiyagu said police were investigating the attack. Police could not immediately be reached for comment.
Conservative Muslims have raised pressure in recent weeks for Malay-speaking Christians to stop using the word ‘Allah’.
They say the word – which also is used by Malay Muslims to refer to the Islamic creator – is exclusive to their religion and must not be used by non-Muslims in multiracial Malaysia.
Muslim ethnic Malays make up more than 60 per cent of the country’s 28 million people, which also includes sizeable Chinese, Indian and other minorities.
About 2.6 million people in Malaysia are Christians.
Earlier on Sunday, officials at the Penang church had found a banner hung on its fence saying ‘Jesus is the son of Allah.’ Another such banner also was reportedly found at a nearby church.
Christian officials speculated the banners and petrol bombs could be the work of provocateurs seeking to further inflame the ‘Allah’ dispute….

chris says
Thanks Robert for highlighting this in my country.
Lets see what more can these muslims do…they are worse than savages
Salah says
A mortally wounded savage is a very dangerous one. Islam is dying and Muslims know it. There’s nothing they can do about it except more and more violence. Nevertheless, it’s end is near.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html
Habibah says
Violence is islam way to keep muslim worshiping allah
gravenimage says
Interfaith dialogue in Malaysia: Muslims firebomb church over “Allah” dispute
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These are both one and the same—pious Muslims harass and oppress Infidels, and when that is not enough to cow them completely, they turn to bloody violence.
God, I hate Islam.
mdbigger says
No Christian should be using ‘allah’ for the One True God…Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Not saying they should be attacked for it; just that they
should know better.
gravenimage says
mdbigger wrote:
No Christian should be using ‘allah’ for the One True God…Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Not saying they should be attacked for it; just that they
should know better.
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I rather blanch at the term, myself, because of its obvious links to Islam.
But “Allah” is just the Arabic language word for “God”—Arabic speaking Christians in the Middle East use “Allah”, as do Christians in Malaysia.
The word “God” itself has Germanic roots, and was originally used to denote pagan “gods” such as Thor and Odin—and yet, that is hardly the primary use of “Gott” or “God” today.
Malaysian Christians have every right to use “Allah”—this is is not a case of their “knowing better”. Notice that it is not other Christians who are upset at their using the term.
Really, this is just another example of supremacist Muslims finding the least excuse to oppress and brutalize Christians—indeed, any Infidels. If it were not this, they would some other pretext.