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Brunei bans non-Muslims from using “Allah,” “Qur’an,” “fatwa,” and 16 other words

Feb 24, 2014 10:01 am By Robert Spencer

BruneiAs Sharia descends upon Brunei, non-Muslims are also forbidden to drink alcohol in public or be in close proximity to a Muslim partner. The banned word list is probably an attempt to forestall criticism of Islam, which is also forbidden to non-Muslims in Islamic law. In the West, the mainstream media has already voluntarily adopted this Sharia provision, even without a banned word list.

“19 Islamic words banned for non-Muslims in Brunei,” from The Sun Daily, February 23 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Feb 23, 2014): The Brunei government will ban the use of 19 Islamic words, including “Allah” and “masjid”, by non-Muslims, according to the Brunei Times today.

The ban will take effect from April, the paper said.

Under the Syariah Penal Code Order, these words cannot be used with respect to other religions.

They are azan; baitullah; Al Quran; Allah; fatwa; Firman Allah; hadith; haji; hukum syara’; ilahi; Ka’bah; kalimah al syahadah; kiblat; masjid; imam; mufti; mu’min; solat; and wali.

The Brunei Times quoted Hardifadhillah Mohd Salleh, a senior syariah legal officer of the Islamic Legal Unit as telling staff of the Industry and Primary Resources Ministry on key parts of the order during a briefing.

He also said certain provisions of the order also apply to non-Muslims, such as zina (adultery) with a Muslim partner, drinking alcohol in a public place, and khalwat (close proximity) with a Muslim partner.

If convicted, the penalty is a fine of up to B$4,000 and/or one year in prison.

For adultery between a married Muslim and a married non-Muslim, both parties can be punished by stoning to death if the offence is proven by confession, or the testimony of four eye-witnesses.

The stipulation that there must be four eyewitnesses is based on the Qur’an: “And those who accuse chaste women and then do not produce four witnesses – lash them with eighty lashes and do not accept from them testimony ever after. And those are the defiantly disobedient.” (24:4)

The paper quoted Hardifadhillah as saying that any person who instigates any Muslim man or woman to divorce, or neglect their duties towards their partner can be fined up to B$4,000 and/or jailed for a year.

“Additionally, any Muslim parent who surrenders his child into the care of a non-Muslim can be fined up to B$20,000 and/or jailed for up to five years,” he was quoted as saying.

Brunei will enforce the Syariah Penal Code Order in three phases.

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  1. Galvin Fox says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 10:12 am

    where’s the fucking ‘share’ button then?

    • mark says

      Feb 25, 2014 at 8:38 pm

      just copy paste this link in your social media http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/brunei-bans-non-muslims-from-using-allah-quran-fatwa-and-16-other-words

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 10:31 am

    George Orwell was right: if you control speech, you control thought and no ‘incorrect thought’ is possible.

    They have enslaved speech, all writers, all journalists, all academics, all thinkers…anyone who uses words to describe concepts.

    Those who use words on a basic level of survival can now let the government do all the thinking for them. In a world of Internet, it’s hard to guess how long this censorship will go on until the young rebel and wreck it.

  3. Sharyl A. Elam-Weisel says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 10:37 am

    You have to click on the link then share.

  4. Salah says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 11:15 am

    “The stipulation that there must be four eyewitnesses is based on the Qur’an”

    It seems that whenever Muhammad was in need of help, Allah was there personally at his service providing him with whatever verses he needed!!!

    The story of the four eyewitnesses’ verse: Aisha and Safwan
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/10/aisha-and-safwan.html

  5. JJ says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 11:18 am

    I hereby ban all Muzlims from using the following 19 words:

    G-d, Love, Reason, Logic, Science, Math, Art, Fun, Humor, Beauty, Music, Courage, Honor, Truth, Grace, Generosity, Hope, Faith and…Dog.

    It shouldn’t be too hard for them to follow this edict.

    • sidney penny says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 12:10 am

      You missed out ape and pig.

  6. profitsbeard says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 12:18 pm

    Instead of “Allah” they can use “A Perverted and Plagiarized Religious Parody of a Monotheistic Deity”,

    for “Koran” the proper substitute would be “Paranoid Revenge Fantasies of a Megalomaniacal Mass-murdering Pedophile”,

    and for “fatwa” the non-Muslim may use the word “fathead”.

  7. Januk36 says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    It’s actually hilarious if examined logically. It is my understanding that the transition from non-muslim to muslim requires reciting the “shahada”, if so the wannabe-muslim faces a real dilemma…

  8. big mess says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    Infidels ban Muslims using Infidel eyewear, microphones, computers, printers, phones, internet, electricity, antibiotics, medical science, motorised transport, air-conditioning, central heating and guns.

    • sidney penny says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 12:13 am

      We do not need all that ,we have camels.

  9. gravenimage says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    Brunei bans non-Muslims from using “Allah,” “Qur’an,” “fatwa,” and 16 other words
    …………………………………….

    This is straight from that codification of dhimmitude, the 7th-century Pact of Umar, where threatened Christians promise they will not “teach the Qur’an to our children”.

    And why not? Because they might do so critically; questioning or even criticizing Islam in the process.

    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pact-umar.asp

    It is difficult to talk about any subject if you do not have the proper words to do so. But more than this, even, it imbues any such discussion with fear that one may accidentally use one of the forbidden words, or may simply be accused of doing so.

    So one of the main purposes of this ban is to prevent Infidels from being able to even discuss the creed that is oppressing them.

    Of course, it is also a more general act of supremacy—to claim certain words as the exclusive provenance of Muslims.

    More:

    As Sharia descends upon Brunei, non-Muslims are also forbidden to drink alcohol in public or be in close proximity to a Muslim partner.
    …………………………………….

    This gives the lie—often claimed by Taqiyya-spouting Muslims—that Shari’ah law is never applied to non-Muslims. *nothing* could be further from the truth—Shari’ah is particularly oppressive to Infidels.

    More:

    The banned word list is probably an attempt to forestall criticism of Islam, which is also forbidden to non-Muslims in Islamic law. In the West, the mainstream media has already voluntarily adopted this Sharia provision…
    …………………………………….

    Yes—that so many in the West are *self-censoring* is particularly craven—and ultimately enables Shari’ah.

    More:

    He also said certain provisions of the order also apply to non-Muslims, such as zina (adultery) with a Muslim partner, drinking alcohol in a public place, and khalwat (close proximity) with a Muslim partner.
    …………………………………….

    Actually, Zina *doesn’t* just mean adultery—it means any “unlawful sex”, which can include such things as premarital sex and even married sex between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man.

    The definition of “sex” is also pretty loose—some victims have been convicted of Zina for just kissing, holding hands, or even just talking to an unrelated person of the opposite sex.

    That’s where the prohibition on “Khalwat” comes in.

    More:

    If convicted, the penalty is a fine of up to B$4,000 and/or one year in prison.

    For adultery between a married Muslim and a married non-Muslim, both parties can be punished by stoning to death if the offence is proven by confession, or the testimony of four eye-witnesses.
    …………………………………….

    With Shari’ah, it *always* eventually comes down to the barbarism of stoning.

    One might well wonder why *anyone* would ever render a confession that would lead to such a savage death? This might provide a clue:

    “Torture – Sanctioned & Practiced – State of Brunei Darussalam”

    http://gvnet.com/torture/Brunei.htm

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 25, 2014 at 2:51 am

      On BNI I’ve seen the results of caning on a young woman’s buttocks, severe, lifelong scarring must have been the result, I can’t imagine she stayed conscious through the ordeal either.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 25, 2014 at 12:32 pm

        True, Defcon 4. There was even a girl in Bangladesh who died from her caning.

        This was a little 14-year-old girl. Her “crime”? She was a victim of incest. The story was covered widely here at Jihad Watch.

        God, I hate Islam.

  10. Robert Reid says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    Just another “multicultural” load of crap we can look forward to in the West as the Leftist apologists give our countries away to the constant and silly demands of those that are part of this death cult. Sad, very sad indeed. Clowns.

  11. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 2:46 pm

    Christians actually should not use the word “Allah” for God. The thing it’s not for the same reason that Muslim say Christians should not use the word ” Allah.” The reason for Christians is that the God of the Bible is not the god of Islam or the Quran. As the former Muslim and Hezbollah member who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, explained in his book ISLAM AND THE SON OF GOD. Which reads on pages 7,8. reads “Allah is the generic term of God in many Middle Eastern cultures. Allah is identified as one of the thee hundred or so idols worshiped by the Arabian people for centuries before Muhammad was born. many do not know that Allah was the moon god of the Arabians. this explains the crescent moon found on the minarets of mosques and flags of Muslim nations.” To put this in another way, the reason that some Christians in the Middle East mistake the mistake for using the word Allah for the God of the Bible started because in the passing of time the word Allah had become widely accepted as the Arabic word for God. This is because truth compromising Bible compromising Bib’e “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have been used in the Arabic translations of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS ! by Dr. Ha ha Lung defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god: the god of Islam.” Likewise in the book INSIDE ISLAM by Reza F. Safa on pages 2,23 reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah-worship and Ball- worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which defines them as astral religions[these cults are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 21:3,5.. 23 :5. Second Chronicles 33:5. ] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship is also the symbol of Islam.” In conclusion the, god of Islam is not the God of the Bible.”

    The words on bracket are my own. Moreover, this truth is further explains in the books WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G.J.O. Moshay. UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Metmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner. THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey. PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett.

  12. Galvin Fox says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    one set of laws for muslims & another set of laws for everyone else. this is Islamic apartheid, a violation of the human right to free speech, & an endorsement of violence for muslim-supremacy. The followers of muhammad the paranoid-schizophrenic mass-murdering genocide-inciting war-mongering paedophile psychopath are indeed psychotic as they mentally live in a fantasy world while physically they act out their fantasies making themselves a danger to themselves & to others. This is a very dangerous situation because there are so many of these psychotic individuals.

  13. Galvin Fox says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    one set of laws for muslims & another set of laws for everyone else. this is Islamic apartheid, a violation of the human right to free speech, & an endorsement of violence for muslim-supremacy. The followers of muhammad the paranoid-schizophrenic mass-murdering genocide-inciting war-mongering paedophile psychopath are indeed psychotic as they mentally live in a fantasy world while physically they act out their fantasies making themselves a danger to themselves & to others. This is a very dangerous situation because there are so many of these psychotic individuals.

  14. Roger Lane says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    scre these people

  15. Unclesamhain says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 10:25 pm

    And the world gets a little smaller.

  16. wedus says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 3:33 am

    probably we ban word of “muslim” and should change to “lamb”/”goat”

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