Well, I guess now they'll know how the Cathars , the Aztec, the Spanish, the ladies of Salem, Ma., and the North American Native Americans felt - to name a few. Lets all give thanks that blankets infected with small pox weren't given to them as well.
Christians have gone on plenty of their own genocidal and intolerance campaigns. Things always come back around, even if it takes awhile. Christians hate that Muslims are intolerant? Whoa, mirrors suck, don't they? Maybe they could learn something? Same goes for Hasidic Judaism.
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Bibles seized as Malaysia minorities fear fundamentalism
- November 03, 2009 19:17:08
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- 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.
Its use in Christian publications is likely to confuse Muslims and draw them to Christianity, the government says. So it has banned use of the word in Christian literature.... Read full article »
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.
Its use in Christian publications is likely to confuse Muslims and draw them to Christianity, the government says. So it has banned use of the word in Christian literature.... Read full article »
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Christians have gone on plenty of their own genocidal and intolerance campaigns. Things always come back around, even if it takes awhile. Christians hate that Muslims are intolerant? Whoa, mirrors suck, don't they? Maybe they could learn something? Same goes for Hasidic Judaism.
About time they figured it out.
God calls Himself "I am".
If one understands linguistics it helps a lot. "Allah" is simply the Arabic translation of the translation we call God. To build a case against Islam for a translation of a word is kind of silly, no?
don't take it seriously
I do hear this Allah vs. God thing quite a bit from Christians, though.
Many peoples from other nations living in mud huts who eat very little who come here to work and not play around who know three or four languages and we cannot barely read, speak or write English yet alot of Americans look down upon these peoples.
The man the Christian Bible calls the father of believing is Abraham - you know, that whole "Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for Righteousness," thing in Romans?
This is idiotic!