Personally, I do not have preference of the court's decision on this word, because I am neither Muslim nor Christian. However, it concern me about one issue, and I think it is a concern of most people in this community as well. Does this mean I am not allowed to say "Allah", because I am not Muslim. If this is true, that means I will have to use the word "GOD" to whoever I am speaking to. And that arises another problem. Will Christian prohibit me from using the word "GOD", because I am not Christian? If this is true, I have no other words to use when I am referring to the almighty, but to use my Chinese word. But extremist again raise another issue, which is accusing me for "Trying to Convert" them into believing "MY GOD"?
As per my understanding from Wikipedia, Allah is an Arabic word of GOD. The word Allah, is just merely a vocabulary, but extremist can politicize on the issue, and capitalized on it to win votes, to get support, and to be famous.
I am writing on this blog to express myself, my thought, and my opinion. If extremist wants to keep the words from being used by other people that is not in their religion, I suggest them to pattern the word. Next step is to not even say that word to anyone else that is not in their religion. This is to prevent other from knowing that word and use it.
If anyone intend to solve the conflict between these 2 religions (Islam and Christianity), I think is a waste of time, as both has been fighting since 2000+ years ago until today. However if we intend to make everyone from different religious to stay peaceful with each other, we already made it for the past 52 years. Are we going to destroy what our forefather has built for us? Or are we going to continue to achieve a more peaceful living for our country? Ain't we very proud of our nation's ability of accepting differences of every religions and ain't we understanding?
The act of torching the church is just an act of minority extremist, or is just an act of the ignorant. Politicians and leaders please stop politicize the issues, and please spend more effort in making peace in our country and continue to set example in the world, like we did for the past 52 years.
Monday, January 11, 2010
The use of "Allah"
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