The word “Allah” simply means God in the Arabic language, but Islamic sensibilities are hurt if a Christian uses the word.
Islamic sensibilities are a means not only in Malaysia, but everywhere, to sustain and spread the inherent supremacism of Muslims over kaffirs in normative Islam.
This isn’t the first time that the issue of Christians using the word “Allah” has come to the fore in Malaysia. In 2014, Malaysia’s highest court upheld a full ban on non-Muslims using the word, and rejected a challenge from the Catholic Church to overturn it. But the Malaysian government stepped in to clarify that the ban only applied to the Church’s newspaper. Christians continued to use “Allah” in their prayer gatherings, amid fury as well as concern that “the word could confuse Muslims and cause them to convert away from Islam, which is a crime in many parts of the country.”
Now the issue has resurfaced, in an attempt by Malaysian Islamic authorities to crack down upon and harass Christians who use the word to reference their own God.
“National Council for Islamic Affairs delves into non-Muslim use of ‘Allah’, Malaysiakini, August 28, 2023:
The Malaysian National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs (MKI) today discussed the issue concerning the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims by outlining complete and comprehensive guidelines, said Selangor ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah.
Sultan Sharafuddin, who is also MKI chairperson, said the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims was a sensitive issue among Muslims in Malaysia including the use of the word by some Christians in Sabah and Sarawak that should be reviewed and thoroughly examined before a final decision could be made over the matter with full wisdom and responsibility.
“All the decisions reached by MKI…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Memo to Malay-speaking non-muslims: just use the word “Begawan” (like in Bandar Seri Begawan) as your term for God, instead of “allah”, who is exclusively
the muslim godMohammed’s sock-puppetShiva says
Isn’t Bandar Seri Begawan capital of Brune?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! That’s why I used that example: the city name means “City of the Lord God” in Malay, where Seri (Shri) means Lord, and Bandar means town/city
Gary says
Wat is Begawan? Did you mean Bhagwan?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It’s Bhagwan in Hindi, but Begawan in Malay. Both being Sanskrit derivatives
Tatanka says
Mohammed’s Allah actually refers to Satan but these mental regenerates haven’t that figured out yet and they probably never will no matter how hard they bang their billy goat nogging on the ground.
POLEMEC says
Let’s not pussy foot around here . Allah is one of the 365 graven images in the pagan kaaba in preislamic times . The pagen worship of the sun/ star and the moon/crescent moon is pre islamic .All the great empires were pagan crescent & star worship. Babylon Baal and Asteroth , Egyptian- Osiris & Isis , Persian Bel & Belit Assyrian Ish & Ishtar , Greek Helios & Artemis and Rome Apollo & Diana . In Arabia Hilal bin Sahar or Hilal Sahar . Like Halal it’s derivative, Hilal means brightness/ Crescent moon and bin Sahar means son of the morning (star ) from Saharion and Sahara dessert of stars . It is alao Arabic for the Latin Lucifer ( Hilal Sahar ) . Isaiah 14:12, ” Oh how thou art fallen Oh Lucifer ! son of the dawn Oh moring star who was cast down and decieved thye nations (Goyim hebrew – nations around Israel ) akhbar means greater not great . Allahu Akhbar means Lucifer is greater than .. who ?
Westman says
Bu-bu-but the Quran says Allah was the God of the Jews and Christians say Jesus was the Son of the same God.
If A = B, and B = C, then A = C. Sorry Islam, Muhammad and Allah shoehorned themselves into the Torah, via the Quran, which means Muhammad assigned Allah to be the Jewish and Christian God and the terms were interchangeable in Muhammad’s time. Denying it is simply modern politics of Apartheid against Christians.
However, you’ll find Christians quite willing forget the name, Allah. Sans conséquence.
Jayell1 says
‘The word “Allah” simply means God in the Arabic language, but Islamic sensibilities are hurt if a Christian uses the word.’
Oh dear, what a shame. But islam and muslims insult the sensibilities of Christians and all other civilised peoples all the time by simply existing, so are we bothered?
FYI says
Given allah’s EPIC misunderstanding of christian Theology in koran 5:116 when allah idiotically questions Jesus as to why Jesus insisted Mary{!!} be included in the 3 gods of the Christians thus revealing an astonishing lack of omniscience,his well known inability to understand the science behind creation and his fraudulent claim he gave the Scripture to Moses and{koran 2:87} {yet teaches to the contrary thus defeating the purpose of the Law given to Moses},i am sure muslims won’t mind if i use another name for allah.
Allan Akbar
So “allah knoweth,ye knoweth not” {koran 2:216} becomes “allan akbar knoweth not”
As he is shown NOT to be omniscient the old name allah simply won’t do will it?
The koran,in its holeyness,is a work of fiction by… Allan Akbar.That is how i read it anyway.
Allan Akbar
Aramaic Anon says
Al’ lah doesn’t mean God. The neutral Arabic word for God is “Ilah”. Islam has nothing to do with the Abrahamic faith neither. Arabs are also not historic Ismaelites. Please don’t just repeat Islamic propaganda!
terry says
No problems! When I use the word God, I mean the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob; the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Not little devilish, Satanic, Luciferian little-g’s like all the murders, rapist, arsonist, looters, thugs, gangs, mobs, and mobster’s that comprise the ruling powers that be today. Sorry, but as for me and mine, we serve the Living Godhead, not moon gods, demons, and devils. But, for them to do so, it is their- right; and it is MY right to stand and shoot straight- be it by Word, by deed, or by bullets. I am personally praying, first for them to see their deeds for what they are, violent and criminal; and secondly, if self-willed delusions of such violence, chaos, death, and destruction are the enjoyments and delights of the Globalist Elites of the West, Marxism, Islam, and cartels owned and paid for by foundations and hordes of DEI’s( Dumbo En-zombified Idiots)- God bring them down before their own eyes and all the eyes of God’s Creation!
Athmanathan Seetharaman says
I think in some few hundred years there will be no Islam. Either Muslims are killed by others or there’s a great awakening of realism among them.