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Tuesday, March 2

A  DIFFERENT KIND OF CELEBRATION


They  stood near the main gate. The stalks of roses, the chocolates and books  were ready to be distributed. They waited.
The group of  undergraduates were Muslims. The sisters were in hijab. They were ready  for the challenge.
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They  stood near the main gate. The stalks of roses, the chocolates and books  were ready to be distributed. They waited.<br />
The group of  undergraduates were Muslims. The sisters were in hijab. They were ready  for the challenge.<br />
&#8220;Hello, how are you? I&#8217;ve some gifts for you,  please accept them,&#8221; one of them approached a young Indian lady who was  on her way out of the campus. It was a public holiday.<br />
&#8220;For me? But  why?&#8221; the Indian lady asked with a smile.<br />
&#8220;Today&#8217;s Maulidur Rasul,  our prophet Nabi Muhammad&#8217;s birthday and we would like to celebrate it  with you by giving you these,&#8221; explained the Muslim sister, as she  handed over a stalk of red rose, some chocolates and a book about  prophet Muhammad [pbuh] to the Indian lady.<br />
&#8220;Oh, thank you! How nice.  I&#8217;ve always wanted to know more about Nabi Muhammad,&#8221; replied the  Indian lady as she accepted the gifts.<br />
Soon the boxes were empty. All  the items had been received by the surprised non Muslim undergraduates.  Everyone had smiles on their faces. Happy were they who gave and happy  were those who received.</p>
<p>The event took place on the 26th of  February. Alhamdulillah, I was told by the organiser that everything  went smoothly as planned.<br />
It was a first for him and the members of  his team.<br />
The project would not have succeeded without the help and  financial support of members of the public.</p>
<p>While some people  were still arguing about whether Muslims should hold processions and  talking about the so-called &#8216;banned&#8217; Maulidur Rasul celebration at  Penang, alhamdulillah there&#8217;re others who decided to celebrate it in a  different way:<br />
By sharing the celebration with their non Muslim  friends.<br />
By spreading the spirit of love and care for other people,  which was practised by prophet Muhammad [pbuh] during his lifetime,  through gifts and friendship.<br />
By inviting non Muslims to know the  prophet by reading about his greatness and why he was called the most  influential person in history, in a book not written by a Muslim scholar  but by a researcher who&#8217;s a Christian, Michael H. Hart.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t  know about you, but I&#8217;m impressed when I saw the photographs taken  during the event.<br />
For you do know that&#8230;<br />
On Maulidur Rasul, we  Malaysian Muslims have always congregated in mosques and suraus to  listen to talks, to pray and to even to have a kenduri. That&#8217;s what we  often do.<br />
How many of us have actually taken the initiative of that  free-from-having-to-go-to-work-day to introduce prophet Muhammad [pbuh]  to our non Muslim friends? To invite them for talks about the most  influential person in history, and to explain to them why we love and  honour him so much?<br />
Or do we as usual, continue to avoid them, and to  continue to call them kafirs ?<br />
Do we continue to tell them that  they&#8217;re not welcomed in our mosques, not welcomed to join us in our  ceramah, and that they&#8217;re destined for hell for being an unbeliever?<br />
Have  we developed that &#8216;I&#8217;m holier than thou&#8217; mentality?<br />
Do we really  believe that Maulidur Rasul should be only for Muslims?<br />
Well, it&#8217;s  about time we reflect on our actions and belief system.<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_C1EPAkx1iC8/Ro8HVRY5FUI/AAAAAAAAB0o/P4t2uF1KiHY/s400/Kamaruddin+Abdullah.jpg" alt="Kamarudin Abdullah" width="400" height="320" /></p>
<p>Congratulations  to brother <a href="http://www.ipsi.com.my/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=64:reaching-out-to-non-muslims&amp;catid=35:past-events&amp;Itemid=59">Kamaruddin  Abdullah </a>and his team, especially the young Muslim missionaries for  their great work. They have thought out of the box and did something  not many of us would ever dream of doing.<br />
May Allah swt bless them  for their efforts and open more doors for this project to be bigger and  better in the coming years, insyaAllah.</p>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04084745345555922144">Ray Kokuyu C</a> said&#8230; </dt>
<dd class="comment-body">Assalamualaikum~</p>
<p>Indeed, my heart goes all out for brother  Kamaruddin Abdullah and his team. May Allah Almighty bless them for such  simple yet extraordinary idea.</p>
<p>When I was reading the sentence  where the Muslim sister presented those gifts to Indian woman, somehow I  got anxious to read the next sentence, wondering what&#8217;s her reaction.  But alhamduliah~</p>
<p>Such reminds me of my challenge of bringing the  beautiful message of Islam to non-Muslims. Some people, the moment they  hear anything about Islam, start to feel uneasy.<br />
Perhaps it is more  of how we present Islam to them than their reactions.</p>
<p>Aside, I  totally love your second last paragraph&#8217;s statements. They strike the  chord loudly. <img src='http://themuslimbloggersalliance.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>This blog post article seriously really  inspires me. Subhan&#8217;Allah, 2 thumbs up for that <img src='http://themuslimbloggersalliance.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665443057365040070">mysterious_musafir</a> said&#8230; </dt>
<dd class="comment-body">assalamualaikum&#8230;</p>
<p>wonderful!! i&#8217;ve reall wrecked my brain,  searching for a great creative way in the remembrance of our beloved  prophet.</p>
<p>All we could come up with was a competition in facebook.  Its a &#8220;what will you say if you meet Rasulullah&#8221;.</p>
<p>I hope the  group keeps getting lovely phrases.</p>
<p>May Allah bless all our  hardwork, insyaAllah..</p>
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<dd class="comment-footer"> <span class="comment-timestamp"> <a title="comment permalink" href="http://pukullima.blogspot.com/2010/03/different-kind-of-celebration.html?showComment=1267582806731#c2400593722520499290"> 3 March 2010 10:20 </a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-638460801"> <a title="Delete Comment" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6218313360696306951&amp;postID=2400593722520499290"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="" /> </a> </span> </span> </dd>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://maddieness.wordpress.com/">★</a> said&#8230; </dt>
<dd class="comment-body">This is beautiful. So inspiring!</p>
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<dd class="comment-footer"> <span class="comment-timestamp"> <a title="comment permalink" href="http://pukullima.blogspot.com/2010/03/different-kind-of-celebration.html?showComment=1267621008541#c5209212707888965280"> 3 March 2010 20:56 </a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1144872837"> <a title="Delete Comment" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6218313360696306951&amp;postID=5209212707888965280"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="" /> </a> </span> </span> </dd>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/11218183427774411196">aliya</a> said&#8230; </dt>
<dd class="comment-body">Waalaikumussalam Ray,<br />
You should hear bro Kamaruddin&#8217;s sermons  then, hehehe.. I was just a narrator, the ones doing the work were them,  alhamdulillah with Allah&#8217;s guidance.<br />
Indeed, a gentler approach is  at times better.</p>
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<dd class="comment-body">Mysterious_musafir,<br />
InsyaAllah&#8230; how&#8217;s the competition at  facebook, any results yet ?</p>
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<dd class="comment-body">*, praise to Allah swt for the strength to attend the ceramah, which I  was about to give it a miss due to some problems with my car.</p>
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<dd class="comment-body">Assalamu&#8217;alaikum Sis Aliya,<br />
Its been a while since I last commentd  =)<br />
Subhanallah. I never thought of doing that! Indeed, truly  inspiring =D<br />
If only I cn join them !</p>
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Sambutan Maulidurrasul dihukum oleh  sesetengah ‘ulama sebagai sunat muakkad (sunat yang sangat dituntut)  memandangkan realiti umat pada hari ini yang sudah semakin jauh daripada  mengenali baginda Rasulullah sallallahu  ‘alayhi wasallam sekaligus menjadikan umat hari ini semakin  terasing daripada mengamalkan dan menghayati sunnah baginda. Buktinya,  [...]]]></description>
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<h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://akhienaim.blogspot.com/2010/02/janganlah-biadab-dengan-sayyiduna.html">Janganlah  Biadab Dengan Sayyiduna Muhammad</a></h3>
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<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Sambutan Maulidurrasul dihukum oleh  sesetengah ‘ulama sebagai sunat muakkad (sunat yang sangat dituntut)  memandangkan realiti umat pada hari ini yang sudah semakin jauh daripada  mengenali baginda Rasulullah <span style="font-style: italic;">sallallahu  ‘alayhi wasallam</span> sekaligus menjadikan umat hari ini semakin  terasing daripada mengamalkan dan menghayati sunnah baginda. Buktinya,  ada di kalangan umat pada hari ini yang dengan penuh biadab menyatakan  bahawa Sayyiduna Muhammad <span style="font-style: italic;">sallallahu  ‘alayhi wasallam</span> hanyalah seorang manusia biasa sebelum  diturunkan wahyu ketika usia baginda 40 tahun; malah, mereka menyamakan  Sayyiduna Muhammad itu dengan “muhammad-muhammad” lain seperti yang ada  pada hari ini. Dakwaan tersebut adalah merupakan satu penghinaan kepada  baginda Rasulullah <span style="font-style: italic;">sallallahu ‘alayhi  wasallam</span> kerana pada hakikatnya walaupun baginda adalah seorang  manusia, tetapi baginda bukanlah seorang manusia biasa – kerana baginda  manusia luarbiasa! Malah, kemuliaan baginda bukanlah bermula semenjak  usia baginda 40 tahun, tetapi semenjak daripada awal penciptaan lagi!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Di dalam sebuah hadith yang  diriwayatkan oleh Abu al-Husin ibnu Bisyran, antaranya melalui jalan  Ibnu al-Jauzi di dalam kitab al-Wafa bi Fadhail al-Mustafa, dengan lafaz  yang bermaksud: “<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Setelah  Allah menjadikan bumi, kemudian Dia menuju dengan kehendakNya ke arah  (bahan-bahan) langit, lalu diciptakan tujuh langit dengan sempurna.  Setelah itu, Allah menjadikan ‘Arasy, dan menulis pada tiang ‘Arasy  ‘Muhammad Utusan Allah, Penutup Para Nabi’. Dia juga mencipta syurga  yang didiami oleh Adam dan Hawa, lalu Dia menulis namaku pada  pintu-pintu, daun-daun, kubah-kubah dan khemah-khemah syurga; sedangkan  ketika itu Adam masih berada (dalam proses kejadiannya) di antara ruh  dan jasad. Setelah Adam dihidupkan oleh Allah, dia memandang kepada  ‘Arasy, maka dia melihat namaku. Lalu Allah memberitahu kepada Adam,  ‘Sesungguhnya dia (Muhammad) adalah penghulu keturunanmu.’ Ketika mereka  (Adam dan Hawa) berjaya diperdayakan oleh syaitan, mereka bertaubat dan  memohon syafa’at dengan (perantaraan dan keberkatan) namaku kepadaNya.</span>”  (Isnad riwayat ini kuat.)</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Di dalam sebuah hadith lagi, daripada al-‘Irbadh ibn  Sariyah, bahawa Rasulullah <span style="font-style: italic;">sallallahu  ‘alayhi wasallam</span> bersabda yang bermaksud: “<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sesungguhnya aku adalah  hamba Allah, penutup segala nabi, dan sesungguhnya ketika itu lembaga  Adam ‘alayhissalam masih terdampar pada tanahnya. Aku akan mengkhabarkan  kepada kalian tentang perkara tersebut. Aku adalah berkat doa  ayahandaku, Nabi Ibrahim ‘alayhissalam, khabar gembira yang dibawa oleh  Isa ‘alayhissalam dan ru’ya bondaku mengenai kenabianku. Demikian juga  bonda-bonda para nabi melihat tanda-tanda kenabian anak-anak mereka.  Sesungguhnya bonda Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam telah melihat  cahaya yang menerangi istana-istana Syam sehingga beliau dapat  melihatnya ketika melahirkan Baginda sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam.</span>”  (Hadith diriwayatkan oleh Ahmad, al-Bazzar dan al-Baihaqi. Ibnu Hibban  dan al-Hakim menghukumkan hadith ini sohih dan pentashihan ini diakui  oleh al-Hafiz ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani.)</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Begitu juga dengan banyak kisah-kisah lain yang lebih  masyhur yang menyampaikan kepada kita kefahaman yang jelas bahawa  baginda Rasulullah adalah insan yang luarbiasa. Bayangkan, lahir sahaja  baginda daripada perut ibu baginda dalam keadaan bersujud. Apakah ada  anak-anak kita yang begitu? Api di biara majusi yang tidak pernah  terpadam semenjak ratusan tahun tiba-tiba terpadam dengan kelahiran  baginda. Saat Sayyiduna Muhammad diambil oleh Halimah as-Sa’diah,  perjalanan mereka diiringi awan yang sentiasa menaungi baginda daripada  panas terik mentari. Kambing-kambing peliharaan Halimah as-Sa’diah dan  suaminya menjadi segar-bugar, penuh dengan susu. Saat kecilnya dan  remajanya baginda didatangi malaikat yang membelah dada baginda dan  membersihkan hati baginda – apakah ada anak kita yang mendapat  peliharaan daripada Allah sebegitu rupa?</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Janganlah kita biadab dengan baginda Rasulullah <span style="font-style: italic;">sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam</span> kerana  tanpa baginda siapalah kita; beradablah dengan baginda Rasulullah <span style="font-style: italic;">sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam</span> kerana  Allah <span style="font-style: italic;">Subhanahu wa ta’ala</span> akan  menghapuskan pahala amalan orang yang tidak beradab dengan baginda – dan  dikhuatiri, jika terlampau biadabnya kita dengan Rasulullah, akan  mengundang kemurkaan Allah <span style="font-style: italic;">Subhanahu  wa ta’ala</span>.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Semoga Allah  merahmati kita dan menghimpunkan kita bersama baginda Rasulullah <span style="font-style: italic;">sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam</span>.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">(Rujukan: kitab “40 Hadith  Keistimewaan Rasulullah”, karangan asal Syeikh Abdullah ibn Muhammad  al-Siddiq al-Ghumari al-Hasani yang diterjemah dan dikeluarkan oleh  Syeikh Muhammad Fuad bin Kamaludin al-Maliki)</p>
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Britain&#8217;s most violent football gangs unite against Muslims

Their aim? To drive out Islamic extremism. Their weapon? The thugs of Britain&#8217;s most violent football gangs

Some of the most violent football hooligans in Britain head towards Manchester to support a march by the burgeoning English Defence League (EDL), while a woman dressed in a [...]]]></description>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://westmuslimchronicle.blogspot.com/2009/12/britains-most-violent-football-gangs.html">Britain&#8217;s most violent football gangs unite against Muslims</a></h3>
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<h2 style="color: #993300;">Their aim? To drive out Islamic extremism. Their weapon? The thugs of Britain&#8217;s most violent football gangs</h2>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some of the most violent football hooligans in Britain head towards Manchester to support a march by the burgeoning English Defence League (EDL), while a woman dressed in a black hijab appears intimidated</span></p>
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<p>On Platform One at Bolton station a mob of around 100 men punch the air in unison. The chant goes up: &#8216;Muslim bombers, off our streets, Muslim bombers off our streets&#8230;&#8217;<br />
Their voices echo loudly and more men suddenly appear; startled passengers move aside. The group march forward waving St George Cross flags and holding up placards. The throng of men around me applaud. A train heading for Glasgow draws up on the opposite platform and the men turn as one, bursting into song: &#8216;Engelaand, Engelaand, Engelaand.&#8217;<br />
Some of the men hide behind balaclavas, others wear black hoodies. A few speak on mobile phones, their hands pressed against their ears to block out the cacophony.<br />
&#8216;It&#8217;s already kicking off in Manchester. This could be tasty,&#8217; shouts one. These are some of the most violent football hooligans in Britain and today they have joined together in an unprecedented show of strength. Standing shoulder to shoulder are notorious gangs - or &#8216;firms&#8217; as they are known - such as Cardiff City&#8217;s Soul Crew, Bolton Wanderers&#8217; Cuckoo Boys and Luton Town&#8217;s Men In Gear.<br />
The gathering is remarkable, as on a match day these men would be fighting each other. But it is politics that has drawn them together. They are headed for Manchester to support a march by the burgeoning English Defence League.<br />
The police are here in force, too. &#8216;Take that mask off,&#8217; barks a sergeant to one young man. He does so immediately but protests: &#8216;Why are they allowed to wear burkas in public but we&#8217;re not allowed to cover our faces?&#8217;<br />
&#8216;Just do what you&#8217;re told,&#8217; the policeman snaps back.</p>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An EDL demonstrator is arrested at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester in October</span></p>
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<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s always the same these days. One rule for them and another for us. I&#8217;m sick of this country,&#8217; a man standing next to me says in a West Country accent.<br />
He draws on a cigarette then flicks it to the ground in disgust. He starts to complain again but when the tannoy announces the arrival of the train to Manchester Piccadilly he raises his hands above his head and starts another favourite.<br />
&#8216;Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves&#8230; Britons never, never, never&#8230;&#8217; His companions join in. As the train comes to a halt the crowd surges forward.<br />
The carriages are almost full so the men pack themselves into the aisles followed by policemen speaking into radios. A group of lads drinking beer at a table eye the new contingent warily.<br />
One man wearing a baseball cap clocks their fear and reassures them.<br />
&#8216;It&#8217;s all right lads, nothing to worry about. We&#8217;re protesting against radical Islam. Come and join us.&#8217;<br />
Further up the carriage another bursts into song.<br />
&#8216;We had joy, we had fun, we had Muslims on the run,&#8217; he starts up. Nobody joins in and a couple of his mates tell him to &#8217;shut up&#8217; as they point to a woman dressed in a black hijab sitting at a table.<br />
A man standing close to her is masked and holds a placard. It has a picture of a Muslim woman crying with red blood streaming down her face. &#8216;Sharia law oppresses women!&#8217; the slogan reads.<br />
The rise of the English Defence League has been rapid. Since its formation at the start of the summer the group has organised nearly 20 major protests in Britain&#8217;s cities, including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Luton, Nottingham, Glasgow and Swansea.<br />
Its leaders are professional and articulate and they claim that the EDL is a peaceful, non-racist organisation. But having spent time with them, there is evidence that this movement has a more disturbing side. There is talk of the need for a &#8217;street army&#8217;, and there are links with football hooligans and evidence that violent neo-Nazi groups including Combat 18, Blood and Honour and the British Freedom Fighters have been attending demos.<br />
Violence has erupted at most of the EDL&#8217;s demonstrations. In total, nearly 200 people have been arrested and an array of weapons has been seized, including knuckledusters, a hammer, a chisel and a bottle of bleach.<br />
As the EDL gains support across the UK, Muslims have already been targeted in unprovoked attacks. In the worst incident, a mob of 30 white and black youths is said to have surrounded Asian students near City University in central London and attacked them with metal poles, bricks and sticks while shouting racist abuse. Three people - two students and a passer-by who tried to intervene - were stabbed.<br />
Following the Manchester protest, when 48 people were arrested during street violence, the Bolton Interfaith Council Executive issued a stark warning that race relations were under threat and Communities Secretary John Denham compared the EDL to Oswald Mosley&#8217;s Union of British Fascists, who ran amok in the Thirties. In response to these fears, the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit, a countrywide police team set up to combat domestic extremism, has been investigating the EDL.<br />
&#8216;The concern to me is how groups like this, either willingly or unwillingly, allow themselves to be exploited by very extreme right-wing groups like the National Front and the British Freedom Fighters,&#8217; Metropolitan Police chief Sir Paul Stephenson has said.<br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Welsh Defence League members burn an anti-Nazi flag in Swansea</span></p>
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<p>I had met the English Defence League for the first time in Luton three weeks before the Manchester demonstration. After several calls, key members agreed to talk on the condition that I did not identify them. We met at a derelict building close to Luton town centre. Eleven men turned up. All wore balaclavas, as they often do to hide their identities, and most had black EDL hoodies with &#8216;Luton Division&#8217; written on the back. They&#8217;d made placards bearing slogans such as &#8216;Ban the Burka&#8217;.<br />
The group&#8217;s self-proclaimed leader, who goes by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, did most of the talking. A father of two, Robinson explained the background to the rise of the movement.<br />
&#8216;For more than a decade now there&#8217;s been tension in Luton between Muslim youths and whites. We all get on fine - black, white, Indian, Chinese&#8230; Everyone does, in fact, apart from these Muslim youths who&#8217;ve become extremely radicalised since the first Gulf War. This is because preachers of hate live in Luton and have been recruiting for radical Islamist groups for years. Our Government does nothing about them so we decided that we&#8217;d start protesting.&#8217;</p>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">EDL demonstrators in Birmingham in September </span></p>
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<p>Robinson could barely conceal his anger as he explained that the spark for him had been the sight of radical Muslims protesting when soldiers paraded through the town on their regiment&#8217;s return from Afghanistan in May.<br />
Following the incident Robinson set up a group called United People of Luton and, after linking up with a Birmingham-based organisation called British Citizens Against Muslim Extremists and another called Casuals United (largely made up of former football hooligans), they realised there was potential for a national movement.<br />
&#8216;We have nothing against Muslims, only those who preach hatred. They are traitors who should be hanged and we&#8217;ll keep taking to the streets until the Government kicks them out.&#8217;<br />
More than 100 divisions have been set up across Britain and a careful co-ordination means the EDL is becoming efficient and a potential catch-all for every far-right organisation in Britain.<br />
Robinson admits that he has attended BNP meetings in the past. Another prominent member and administrator of Luton EDL&#8217;s Facebook group is Davy Cooling, a BNP member. Sean Walsh, an activist for the EDL in Luton, is a member of the BNP&#8217;s Bedfordshire Facebook group.<br />
Even within the EDL there are concerns over links to extremists. A former member called Paul Ray recently claimed that the group had been hijacked by BNP activists, including a man from Weston-super-Mare, Chris Renton, who helped set up the EDL website. Ironically, Ray himself has extremist contacts, including a German former neo-Nazi who is friends with Northern Ireland Loyalist Johnny &#8216;Mad Dog&#8217; Adair.<br />
Casuals United was the brainchild of Jeff Marsh, a convicted football hooligan from Cardiff City&#8217;s Soul Crew, one of the most feared gangs in Britain. Marsh operates behind the scenes, orchestrating activities with both Casuals United and the Welsh Defence League, a sister group of the EDL.<br />
The public face of Casuals United is another Welshman called Mickey Smith. An avowed football hooligan, he is banned from Cardiff City&#8217;s football ground. Together, Marsh and Smith organise the 50 or so gangs actively recruiting members across the UK.<br />
The EDL insists it is separate from Casuals United, but dig a little and it becomes clear they operate hand-in-hand. Joel Titus is a cocky but politically naive 18-year-old Arsenal fan of mixed race. He tells me that the EDL youth division he runs has over 300 members across the UK.<br />
&#8216;We want to hit every town and city in Britain,&#8217; he says.<br />
Titus became involved with the movement through Casuals United. And according to anti-fascism magazine <span style="font-style: italic;">Searchlight</span>, his role is to recruit football hooligans.<br />
He sticks to the &#8216;peaceful movement&#8217; mantra but a text I later receive from him ahead of an EDL demo in London reveals his involvement with the hooligans. It reads: &#8216;Right lads, the &#8220;unofficial&#8221; meet for the 31st (London) is going to be 12 o&#8217;clock at The Hole In The Wall pub just outside Waterloo Station. I will be there just before that. Remember lads were (sic) going as Casuals Utd and if you could obtain a poppy to wear it would make us look good even if we are kicking off. lol. Cheers lads. Joel &#8220;Arsenal&#8221; Titus.&#8217;<br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">EDL members meet at a rendezvous pub before travelling to Manchester</span></p>
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<p>Alarmingly, the EDL is becoming more sophisticated and those orchestrating its activities at the top are far more astute than its foot soldiers. I meet two of the EDL&#8217;s key figures in a Covent Garden pub - a respectable looking man called Alan Lake, and a man who goes by the moniker &#8216;Kinana&#8217;.<br />
Lake is a 45-year-old computer expert from Highgate, north London who runs a far-right website called Four Freedoms. This summer he contacted the EDL and offered to both fund and advise the movement.<br />
&#8216;Our leaders in this country no longer represent us,&#8217; he says.<br />
Lake&#8217;s aim is to unite the &#8216;thinkers&#8217; and those prepared to take to the streets. He describes this marriage as &#8216;the perfect storm coming together&#8217;. Lake says that street violence is not desirable but sometimes inevitable.<br />
&#8216;There are issues when you are dealing with football thugs but what can we do?&#8217;<br />
He criticises fascist organisations, however, and says he will only support the EDL so long as it doesn&#8217;t associate with the BNP. When I ask about extremists hijacking the movement, he says: &#8216;There are different groups infiltrating and trying to cause rifts by one means or another, or trying to waylay the organisation to different agendas. The intention is to exclude those groups and individuals.&#8217;<br />
These men are outwardly intelligent and their political nous combined with the brawn of the casuals makes them a quasi-political force.<br />
Britain&#8217;s neo-Nazis realise this. For Kevin Watmough, leader of the neo-Nazi British People&#8217;s Party and a former member of the National Front, the rise of the EDL is reminiscent of the Seventies.<br />
&#8216;The protests remind me of the National Front marches, but I wouldn&#8217;t march with the EDL because they have blacks as supporters,&#8217; he told me.<br />
But other neo-Nazis have joined EDL demos. These include members of Combat 18 and the British Freedom Fighters, who later posted videos of themselves on the internet.<br />
Watmough lives in Bradford and can recall the 2001 riots, which came about as a result of tensions between whites and Muslims. Bradford, along with Oldham, another tinderbox northern city that witnessed riots in 2001, is a stated target for the EDL and Casuals United in 2010. Tension is likely here and in other towns where the EDL is also promoting spontaneous flash demos and the occupation of building sites for new mosques.<br />
Professor Matthew Goodwin, an expert on far-right organisations who has advised the Home Office, says that the police are right to monitor the EDL and to take them seriously.<br />
&#8216;(The EDL) is now well-organised and not just a minor irritant. It has become a rallying point for a number of different groups and to have them marching through sensitive areas is a major concern.&#8217;<br />
Communities Minister John Denham has also condemned the rise of the EDL: &#8216;If you look at the types of demonstrations they have organised, the language used and the targets chosen, it looks clear that it&#8217;s a tactic designed to provoke, to get a response. It&#8217;s designed to create violence. And we must all make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8217;</p>
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Malam semalam (18 Januari 2010), saya berkesempatan menghadiri satu sesi perbincangan tertutup berkenaan isu penggunaan kalimah Allah oleh orang bukan Islam di kediaman Ketua Umum PKR. (Berita di sini) Turut hadir pada malam itu adalah para pemimpin PKR dan PAS. Perbincangan yang berlanjutan hampir tiga jam itu berjalan dengan [...]]]></description>
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<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Malam semalam (18 Januari 2010), saya berkesempatan menghadiri satu sesi perbincangan tertutup berkenaan isu penggunaan kalimah Allah oleh orang bukan Islam di kediaman Ketua Umum PKR. (<a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/122249" target="_blank">Berita di sini</a>) Turut hadir pada malam itu adalah para pemimpin PKR dan PAS. Perbincangan yang berlanjutan hampir tiga jam itu berjalan dengan agak baik, tetapi saya dan rakan-rakan agak kecewa dengan banyak hal, terutamanya yang berkaitan dengan ‘mentaliti’ dan ‘sikap’ orang-orang politik. Saya rumuskan perbincangan yang berlangsung pada malam tersebut dalam beberapa perkara penting yang saya senaraikan di bawah;</p>
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Hujah-hujah yang bersifat ilmiah dan intelektual, khususnya yang melihat daripada aspek teologi, falsafah bahasa, serta latar sosio-budaya, ternyata sukar diterima oleh ahli perbincangan pada malam itu yang rata-ratanya sudah membuat keputusan masing-masing. Sikap yang ditunjukkan oleh beberapa pemimpin politik yang memperlekeh pandangan intelektual, menolak pandangan dari sudut falsafah bahasa dan mengenepikannya mentah-mentah ternyata mengecewakan. Malah, lebih mengecewakan kerana majoriti pandangan yang dikemukakan oleh orang-orang parti politik yang terlibat pada malam itu lebih bersifat ‘pandangan’ dan ‘pendapat’ yang seolah-olah dibuat tanpa melakukan penelitian, kajian, serta pembacaan yang lebih meluas dan mendalam. Banyak hujahan yang <span style="font-style: italic;">simplistic</span> dilontarkan, semata-mata untuk mempertahankan pandangan kelompok mereka.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">2)<br />
Sikap segelintir kecil orang-orang politik yang terlibat di dalam perbincangan tersebut yang gemar menggunakan hujah daripada nas Al-Qur’an dan Al-Hadith, walaupun mereka bukanlah orang yang berkelayakan dalam bidang agama atau tidak pernah mempelajari agama secara serius melalui sistem pengajian yang serius (bukan melalui bacaan satu-dua buku, bukan melalui kajian Internet, bukan melalui ceramah-ceramah, tetapi melalui kelas-kelas pengajian yang ada gurunya), membayangkan keangkuhan mereka. Ayat-ayat yang digunakan, serta sanggahan terhadap penggunaan ayat itu sebagai dalil membenarkan penggunaan nama Allah oleh orang bukan Islam, telah disentuh oleh Mohd. Aizam bin Mas’od di dalam artikel bertajuk “Hujah Menolak Penggunaan Kalimah ‘Allah’ Oleh Kristian”.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">3)<br />
Pendirian ‘tidak rasmi’ Pakatan Rakyat seperti yang diumumkan oleh DSAI pada permulaan sesi perbincangan, yakni untuk menyokong penggunaan kalimah Allah oleh orang bukan Islam di negara ini, antara lain – menurut DSAI – dikukuhkan dengan pandangan yang diterima daripada Dr. Yusuf Qardhawi dan Dr. Wahbah Zuhaili. Hal ini ternyata mengecewakan dan membayangkan seolah-olah orang-orang politik tersebut ‘miskin’ dengan jaringan para ‘ulama. Mendengar pandangan daripada dua orang tokoh tersebut, dan kemudian terus membuat suatu keputusan (saya katakan keputusan kerana kenyataan telah dikeluarkan dalam media) adalah merupakan perkara yang tidak sihat dan sebenarnya telah menutup pintu untuk menerima pandangan-pandangan lain. Ya, kedua-dua tokoh itu adalah tokoh besar di dalam dunia Islam tetapi dunia Islam mempunyai ribuan ‘ulama. Di Malaysia sahaja kita mempunyai begitu ramai ‘ulama yang hebat dan luas ilmunya. Syeikh Muhammad Fuad bin Kamaludin al-Maliki, sebagai contoh, seorang ‘ulama muda tempatan yang kitab-kitab karangan dan terjemahannya sudah mencapai 300 buah, malah ada di antara kitab-kitab beliau yang digunapakai di universiti-universiti dan pusat-pusat pengajian di Mesir.</p>
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Sesi perbincangan tersebut dilihat agak ‘tidak adil’ dan bersifat ‘syok sendiri’. Hal ini demikian kerana ahli perbincangan tersebut tidak cukup ‘<span style="font-style: italic;">diverse</span>’. Majoriti ahli perbincangan adalah merupakan orang-orang parti politik masing-masing. Beberapa orang ahli akademik yang menghadiri perbincangan tersebut pula adalah merupakan kenalan lama kepada para pemimpin parti politik tersebut, sehingga menjadikan pandangan dan pendapat mereka agak ‘<span style="font-style: italic;">reserved</span>’ dan terlalu berhati-hati. Agak mengecewakan kerana banyak di kalangan individu-individu yang autoritatif di dalam hal ehwal agama, terutama di kalangan ilmuan yang membantah penggunaan kalimah Allah oleh orang bukan Islam, tidak dipanggil dan dilibatkan sekali. Seolah-olah, yang mereka iktiraf sebagai ‘ulama dan ilmuan hanyalah daripada <span style="font-style: italic;">circle</span> mereka sahaja. Sedangkan, ada ramai ‘ulama dan ilmuan yang mampu memberikan pandangan secara ilmiah dan bernas – dan jika benar mereka mahu menegakkan semangat muzakarah demi mencari kebenaran, maka seharusnya mereka dilibatkan sekali.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">5)<br />
Sikap politik kepartian yang tidak matang ternyata masih menebal. Biarpun sesi perbincangan tersebut – menurut yang difahamkan kepada kami – adalah sesi perbincangan ilmiah yang bertujuan untuk membincangkan isu tersebut secara sihat demi mencari penyelesaian kepada dilema yang sedang berlaku, tetapi ternyata orang-orang politik yang terlibat di dalam perbincangan tersebut – tua atau muda – semuanya masih ‘terperangkap’ dalam kerangka politik kepartian yang tidak matang. Biarpun beberapa kali disebutkan agar isu ini tidak dijadikan sebagai isu politik, tetapi ternyata pandangan-pandangan yang dikemukakan oleh orang-orang politik pada malam itu majoritinya berdasarkan kepada kacamata ‘politik menang-kalah’; soal populariti parti, soal memenangi undi masih lagi menjadi timbang tara yang melebihi timbang tara ilmiah. Malah, perbincangan yang seharusnya ilmiah itu acapkali menjadi sesi mengutuk UMNO dan kerajaan. Ketua Umum PKR sendiri, pada hemat saya, agak emosional dan sangat terikat dengan pertimbangan politik dalam menilai pandangan-pandangan yang dikemukakan. Keadaan ini ternyata mengecewakan kerana sikap sebegini merugikan umat, kerana sikap ini menjadikan seolah-olah segala yang datangnya daripada UMNO itu dilihat oleh PAS-PKR sebagai ‘najis’ dan begitulah sebaliknya.</p>
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Apa yang agak mengecewakan dan merisaukan juga adalah apabila DSAI mengeluarkan kenyataan supaya isu penggunaan nama Allah ini tidak dipanjangkan kerana banyak isu lain yang ‘lebih penting’ seperti isu kezaliman pemerintah, rasuah dan sebagainya yang perlu diberikan penumpuan serius. Saya agak terkesima dengan kenyataan tersebut, yang membayangkan satu kecelaruan dalam pandangan alamnya. Isu nama Allah ini berkait rapat (jika pun tidak berkait secara langsung) dengan usuluddin, dengan asas agama – kerana yang dibincangkan di sini adalah nama Tuhan kita! – justeru persoalan yang berkaitan dengan ‘aqidah umat Islam (walaupun mungkin tidak berkaitan secara langsung) haruslah diberikan keutamaan. Kenyataan DSAI itu membayangkan seolah-olah untuk ‘bertarung’ dengan orang Islam (kerajaan UMNO) itu lebih penting daripada bersatu bersama umat untuk ‘bertarung’ menentang orang bukan Islam (gereja Katolik).</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Agaknya, memang sukar untuk merubah masyarakat menjadi masyarakat yang benar-benar berbudaya ilmu. Agaknya juga, masih ramai yang tidak memahami bahawa politik bukanlah penyelesaian terbaik kepada segala permasalahan umat yang wujud pada hari ini. Mungkin juga, ramai yang masih belum memahami bahawa asas kepada penyelesaian permasalahan umat, dan seterusnya untuk membina tamadun umat Islam yang terbaik, adalah pada persoalan ‘aqidah – soal pembentukan pandangan alam Islam yang benar dan jelas.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%;" align="justify">Saya pasti ulasan ini tidak popular. Mohon maaf jika ada sesiapa yang terasa. Semoga Allah mengurniakan hidayah-Nya kepada kita semua dan melimpahi Rahmat-Nya kepada kita tanpa putus.</p>
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<div class="post-header-line-1"><span class="date-header">19 January 2010</span> <span class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span class="post-author"> Oleh Zulkifli Noordin </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> pada <a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://zul4kulim.blogspot.com/2010/01/nazri-silap-janji-palsu-umnobe-end.html">4:38 PM</a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, " href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8302693494744104737&amp;postID=7773700481480092073&amp;isPopup=true">6 komentar</a> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-action"> <a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=8302693494744104737&amp;postID=7773700481480092073"> <span class="email-post-icon"> </span> </a> </span> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1830029702"> <a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8302693494744104737&amp;postID=7773700481480092073"> <span class="quick-edit-icon"> </span> </a> </span> </span> </span><br />
<span class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"> <span class="post-labels"> Label: <a rel="tag" href="http://zul4kulim.blogspot.com/search/label/Kalimah%20ALLAH">Kalimah ALLAH</a> </span> </span></div>
<div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4VcuQ5zWbrg/S1V2GIGavrI/AAAAAAAAB9M/PsN2KvXWPg4/s1600-h/100_0146.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428374773490695858" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 300px; text-align: center;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4VcuQ5zWbrg/S1V2GIGavrI/AAAAAAAAB9M/PsN2KvXWPg4/s400/100_0146.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a>(<em>Mukadepan akhbar Utusan Malaysia Rabu 26 Rejab 1427/23.08.2006 melapurkan janji UMNo/Be End untuk menguatkuasakan Artikel 11 (4) di empat negeri. Mana janji-janji itu? Lihat berita penuh dilampiran bawah</em>).</div>
<div>Salam 2 all.</div>
<div>Saya merujuk kenyataan YB Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz yang menyatakan bahawa kalimah ALLAH boleh digunakan oleh kumpulan Kristian di Kuala Lumpur. Pulau Pinang, selain Sabah dan Sarawak. Mengikut kata beliau, ini adalah kerana keempat-empat negeri tersebut tidak mempunyai sebarang undang-undang menyekat penggunaan perkataan ALLAH, tidak sebagaimana 10 negeri lain yang mempunyai undang-undang yang berkaitan.</div>
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<div>Saya berpendapat kenyataan tersebut kurang tepat kerana undang-undang negara mempunyai peruntukkan yang cukup untuk menghalang atau mengharamkan penggunaan kalimah yang dianggap sensitif dan atau bercanggah dengan agama Islam.</div>
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<div>Datuk Seri Nazri mungkin lupa kepada kenyataan beliau sendiri yang disiarkan oleh akhbar Utusan Malaysia Rabu 29 Rejab 1427/ 23.08.2006. Semasa itu isu kes memurtadkan Azlina Jailani @ Lina Joy sedang hangat diperkatakan dengan keputusan Mahkamah Persekutuan menolak permohonan Azlina (yang disokong oleh 13 Ngo bukan Islam termasuk Sisters in Islam) untuk mengesahkan kemurtadan beliau ke agama Kristian dan menukar nama beliau didalam MyKad. Isu berkaitan peruntukkan Artikel 11 (4) telah berbangkit.</div>
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<div>Saya adalah antara mereka yang menentang keras tindakan Azlina Jailani dan kumpulan-kumpulan Ngo Kristian, Majlis Peguam dan lain-lain dalam cubaan mencabar kedudukan Islam didalam negara ini. Malah saya telah berjumpa sendiri dengan YAB Perdana Menteri Dato&#8217; Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yang membawa kepada YAB membuat kenyataan saperti yang saya lampirkan dibawah.</div>
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<div>Malahan Datuk Seri Nazri turut membuat komen iaitu, <em>&#8220;beliau akan merujuk kepada Peguam Negara esok mengenai kedudukan draf undang-undang itu untuk Wilayah Persekutuan. Sambil menyokong arahan Perdana Menteri itu (untuk menggubal undang-undang menyekat dakyah agama bukan Islam), beliau berkata, kerajaan negeri kemungkinan boleh dianggap melanggar undang-undang Malaysia sekiranya tidak mengambil inisiatif untuk berbuat demikian seperti yang diperuntukkan di bawah Artikel 11 (4) Perlembagaan Persekutuan. ‘‘<strong>Kita perlu ingat di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan jelas menyatakan bahawa seseorang itu tidak boleh mengembang agama lain di kalangan orang Melayu atau Islam&#8221;</strong>. ‘‘Saya berharap semua kerajaan negeri akan memberi perhatian terhadap perkara ini demi melindungi orang Melayu atau Islam daripada dipengaruhi oleh agama atau kepercayaan lain,” katanya kepada Utusan Malaysia ketika ditemui di lobi Parlimen, hari ini. Mengulas lanjut, Mohamed Nazri berkata, perkara itu perlu disegerakan kerana ia melibatkan sensitiviti orang Islam di negara ini&#8221;.</em></div>
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<div>Saya mahu bertanya YB Datuk Seri Nazri, mana dia janji-janji tersebut? Apa dah jadi dengan deraf undang-undang tersebut. Kalau ikut kenyataan mereka pada tahun 2006, ada pemimpin UMNo/Be End siap janji akan menggubalnya tahun 2006 itu juga!! Tapi habuk pun tarak; janji tinggal janji, cakap tak serupa bikin.</div>
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<div>Malahan saya berpendapat isu penyalahgunaan kalimah ALLAH oleh segelintir Kristian di Sabah/Sarawak ini mungkin langsung tidak akan timbul sekarang jika UMNo/Be End menunaikan janji palsu mereka tiga tahun lepas untuk menggubal dan melaksanakan undang-undang Anti-Dakyah Agama ini di keempat-empat negeri tersebut! Kini ketiadaan undang-undang Anti-Dakyah Agama ini diambil kesempatan oleh segelintir puak Kristian untuk mencabar kesucian aqidah Islam.</div>
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<div>Selanjutnya, Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan telah pun mengeluarkan fatwa bahawa penggunaan nama ALLAH (dan banyak perkataan lain yang dinyatakan) adalah tidak dibenarkan samasekali kecuali oleh orang Islam. Bermakna, walaupun tanpa Artikel 11 (4) Perlembagaan dan enakmen negeri-negeri, pihak berkuasa boleh menggunakan Seskyen 298A Kanun Kesiksaan untuk mengambil tindakan terhadap mereka yang menggunakan nama ALLAH selain daripada maksud Tuhan yang Satu saperti yang dii&#8217;tiqadkan oleh umat Islam. Seksyen 298A (1) menyebut, &#8220;<em>barangsiapa dengan perkataan, samada secara lisan atau bertulis&#8230;memudaratkan, atau cuba memudaratkan, atau berkemungkinan memudaratkan, pemeliharaan keadaan harmoni atau perpaduan&#8230;atas alasan-alasan agama, diantara orang yang menganut agama yang sama atau berlainan agama, hendaklah disiksa dengan penjara selama tempoh tidak kurang lima tahun dan tidak lebih dari lima tahun</em>&#8220;.</div>
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<div>Oleh itu, kerajaan boleh mengambil tindakan berdasarkan lapuran-lapuran polis yang dibuat oleh pelbagai individu dan NGO berkaitan isu penyalahgunaan kalimah ALLAH menurut i&#8217;tiqad aqidah umat Islam di Malaysia ini, samada terhadap golongan Kristian dan bukan Islam, dan terhadap individu atau kumpulan yang mengaku beragama Islam!!</div>
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<div>Berdasarkan itu, saya berharap YB Datuk Seri Nazri dapat memperbetulkan kenyataan beliau tersebut yang menyatakan Kristian di Sabah/Sarawak termasuk Kuala Lumpur dan Pulau Pinang boleh menggunakan kalimah ALLAH. Bukan sahaja kenyataan beliau itu bercanggah dengan undang-undang negara, malah bercanggah dengan kenyataan beliau sendiri yang dibuat tiga tahun lepas. Melayu mungkin mudah lupa, sebagaimana titah Mamanda Tun Mahathir suatu ketika dahulu; tetpai umat Islam bukan jenis pelupa!!</div>
<p>Saya juga mengambil kesempatan ini mencabar kerajaan Be End/UMNo supaya mengotakan janji-janji mereka saperti yang telah mereka buat pada tahu 2006. Janganlah main hangat-hangat tahi ayam; bila ada isu baru kelam kabut buat kenyataan tabur janji sana-sini, bila reda masing-masing jadi Pak Pelupa. Saya sendiri telah mengemukakan pelbagai cadangan dan usul setelah menjadi Ahli Parlimen sessi ke 12 ini. Ini terbukti didalam Hansard Parlimen. Namun saya tidak punya kuasa; malahan cadangan dan usul saya kemukakan dibahas pun tidak di Parlimen, kerana UMNo/Be End yang menguasai Parlimen tidak berminat pun dengan isu ini. Kalau benar UMNo katanya juara dan champion umat Islam saperti yang diperkokokkan, saya tidak nampak mengapa undang-undang Anti-Dakyah Agama ini tidak boleh dibentangkan disidang Parlimen bulan Mac akan datang. Peruntukkan Perlembagaan sudah ada, 10 negeri lain telah pun laksanakan, Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan telahpun memmbuat Fatwa, para Sultan dan Raja-Raja Melayu telah pun menegaskan supaya Islam dihormati..yang tinggal hanya &#8220;political will&#8217;-kesungguhan politik UMNo/Be End untuk mengotakan janji mereka dan melaksanakannya.</p>
<p>Wassalam.</p>
<p>Zulkifli Bin Noordin<br />
Selasa<br />
03 Safar 1431<br />
19 Januari 2010</p>
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<div>(<em>Petikan kenyataan Datuk Seri Nazri di MalaysiaKini Selasa 03 Safar 1431/19.01.2010</em>)</div>
<div>Nazri: &#8216;Allah&#8217; juga boleh diguna di WP, P. Pinang<br />
Jan 18, 10 3:00pm</div>
<div>Selain Sabah dan Sarawak, perkataan Allah juga boleh digunakan oleh bukan Islam di Pulau Pinang <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4VcuQ5zWbrg/S1V3KZkaChI/AAAAAAAAB9c/da9ibJlcs2U/s1600-h/Nazri+Aziz.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428375946410986002" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4VcuQ5zWbrg/S1V3KZkaChI/AAAAAAAAB9c/da9ibJlcs2U/s200/Nazri+Aziz.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>dan Wilayah Persekutuan, kata seorang menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri.Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz bagaimanapun berkata, di negeri-negeri lain yang mempunyai enakmen agama Islam, bukan Islam tidak boleh menggunakan perkataan Allah, lapor The Sun. Jumaat lalu, beliau dipetik berkata penganut Kristian di Malaysia Timur boleh terus menggunakan kalimah tersebut bagi terjemahan &#8216;God&#8217; dalam bahasa cetakan bahasa Malaysia, kerana mereka telah menggunakannya sejak 300 tahun yang lalu. Pengumuman itu dibuat olehnya dalam satu wawancara eksklusif dengan lima wartawan daripada Borneo Post, Utusan Borneo and Oriental Daily.Katanya, penganut Kristian di Sabah dan Sarawak tidak perlu bimbang berhubung isu tersebut kerana ia sudah menjadi tradisi mereka di sana.</div>
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<div>(<em>Petikan kenyataan pimpinan UMNo/Be End termasuk Dato&#8217; Seri Nazri yang disiarkan dihalaman depan Utusan Malaysia Rabu 29 Rejab 1427/23 Ogos 2006</em>)</div>
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<div>Empat negeri setuju &#8212; Gubal perundangan sekat penyebaran agama lain di kalangan umat Islam<br />
KUALA LUMPUR 22 Ogos – Empat negeri iaitu Wilayah Persekutuan, Pulau Pinang, Sabah dan Sarawak bersetuju untuk melaksanakan undang-undang bagi mengawal atau menyekat pengembangan apa-apa iktikad atau kepercayaan agama lain di kalangan orang Islam.</div>
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<div>Kesemua negeri itu sedang berusaha untuk mempercepatkan pewartaan undang-undang itu. Pulau Pinang akan membentangkan di Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) November ini, Sarawak pula akan membincangkan mengenai perkara itu di Kabinet negeri secepat mungkin.</div>
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<div>Sabah pula akan merujuk kepada Peguam Negeri untuk digubal undang-undang itu. Sementara Wilayah Persekutuan pula, yang merangkumi Kuala Lumpur, Labuan dan Putrajaya sedang menggubal draf undang- undang itu.</div>
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<div>Ketua Menteri Sabah, Datuk Seri Musa Aman berkata, beliau akan merujuk kepada pejabat Peguam Negara bagi menggubal undang-undang tersebut.</div>
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<div>‘‘Kita akui di Sabah masih belum wujud undang-undang itu bagaimanapun ia perlu dirujuk kepada Peguam Negara,’’ katanya di Kota Kinabalu hari ini.</div>
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<div>Beliau mengulas kenyataan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi semalam yang mengarahkan empat kerajaan negeri mengambil tindakan yang sesuai untuk menggubal undang-undang berkenaan.</div>
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<div>Abdullah berkata, empat negeri yang masih belum mempunyai undang-undang seperti di bawah Artikel 11 (4) Perlembagaan Persekutuan itu ialah Wilayah Persekutuan (Kuala Lumpur, Labuan dan Putrajaya), Pulau Pinang, Sabah dan Sarawak.</div>
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<div>Bagi Sarawak, undang-undang tersebut akan dibentangkan ke Kabinet negeri secepat mungkin.<br />
Ketua Menterinya, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud berkata, setakat ini Sarawak memang tidak mempunyai undang-undang sedemikian kerana tidak banyak kontroversi berkaitan agama berlaku di negeri itu.</div>
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<div>“Perkara ini (menggubal undang-undang) akan dibawa ke Kabinet negeri untuk dibincangkan dan akan dilaksanakan secepat mungkin,’’ katanya.</div>
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<div>Sementara itu, mengulas perkara yang sama, Menteri Muda di Pejabat Ketua Menteri (Hal Ehwal Islam) Sarawak, Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman berkata, penggubalan undang-undang tersebut akan dirujuk terlebih dahulu kepada Peguam Negeri sebelum ia dibentangkan di Kabinet negeri.</div>
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<div>‘‘Peguam Negeri akan meneliti prosedur pelaksanaan undang-undang itu yang diamalkan di negeri lain sebagai panduan untuk dipraktikkan di negeri ini,’’ katanya.</div>
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<div>Bagaimanapun, tambahnya, arahan Perdana Menteri semalam akan diambil tindakan segera kerana bimbang kemungkinan berlaku pertelingkahan atau kontroversi agama pada masa akan datang.</div>
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<div>‘‘Sudah sampai masanya undang-undang sedemikian diperlukan sebagai persediaan awal berlaku kontroversi berkaitan agama di negeri ini,’’ katanya.</div>
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<div>Sementara itu, Yang Dipertua Majlis Agama Islam Pulau Pinang (MAIPP), Shabudin Yahaya menjelaskan, draf undang-undang itu bagi mengawal atau menyekat pengembangan agama lain di kalangan orang Islam bagi negeri itu sedang dalam proses akhir disiapkan.</div>
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<div>Ia dijangka dibentangkan untuk diluluskan pada persidangan DUN, November ini.<br />
Katanya, draf itu akan diperakukan dalam mesyuarat MAIPP September ini terlebih dahulu sebelum dibentangkan pada persidangan tersebut.</div>
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<div>‘‘Kerajaan negeri sebelum ini telah memberi jaminan bahawa tiada halangan dalam menggubal atau mewujudkan peruntukan itu seperti yang termaktub di bawah Enakmen Jenayah Syariah Pulau Pinang 1996,’’ katanya.</div>
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<div>Shabudin memberitahu, dalam usaha menyiapkan draf berkenaan, pihaknya akan merujuk kepada undang-undang yang diguna pakai di negeri lain untuk keselarasan.</div>
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<div>‘‘Draf ini apabila diluluskan akan menyelaraskan undang-undang Pulau Pinang dengan negeri lain bagi memastikan orang Islam tidak dihasut atau dipengaruhi untuk cenderung kepada agama lain, menjadi pengikut, ahli agama bukan Islam atau meninggalkan dan membelakangkan agama Islam,’’ tegasnya.</div>
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<div>Dalam pada itu, Ketua Menteri, Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon telah mengarahkan Penasihat Undang-Undang Negeri supaya mempercepatkan kajian dan penelitian undang-undang itu sebagaimana yang diarahkan oleh Perdana Menteri semalam.</div>
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<div>Katanya, Pulau Pinang akan mengadakan perbincangan dengan keempat-empat negeri terbabit bagi menggubal undang-undang yang sama supaya tidak menimbulkan sebarang keraguan dan masalah pada masa hadapan.</div>
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<div>‘‘Perkara tersebut sudah ada dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan ia diberi perlindungan dan perlembagaan mengatasi semua perkara.</div>
<div>‘‘Kerajaan negeri juga akan mengambil inisiatif untuk memberi penjelasan kepada semua penduduk agar ia tidak menimbulkan sebarang keraguan di masa hadapan,’’ katanya.<br />
Sementara itu, Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz berkata, beliau akan merujuk kepada Peguam Negara esok mengenai kedudukan draf undang-undang itu untuk Wilayah Persekutuan.<br />
Sambil menyokong arahan Perdana Menteri itu, beliau berkata, kerajaan negeri kemungkinan boleh dianggap melanggar undang-undang Malaysia sekiranya tidak mengambil inisiatif untuk berbuat demikian seperti yang diperuntukkan di bawah Artikel 11 (4) Perlembagaan Persekutuan.<br />
‘‘Kita perlu ingat di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan jelas menyatakan bahawa seseorang itu tidak boleh mengembang agama lain di kalangan orang Melayu atau Islam.<br />
‘‘Saya berharap semua kerajaan negeri akan memberi perhatian terhadap perkara ini demi melindungi orang Melayu atau Islam daripada dipengaruhi oleh agama atau kepercayaan lain,” katanya kepada Utusan Malaysia ketika ditemui di lobi Parlimen, hari ini.<br />
Mengulas lanjut, Mohamed Nazri berkata, perkara itu perlu disegerakan kerana ia melibatkan sensitiviti orang Islam di negara ini.</div>
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<div><strong>Ulasan Admin</strong>:</div>
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<div>Artikel di atas adalah pandangan peribadi Tuan Zulkifli Noordin, ahli berdaftar Muslim Bloggers Alliance.</div>
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<div>Seboleh mungkin, MBA tidak mahu terlibat didalam soal soal berkaitan politik negara dan memusatkan kepada hal ehwal berhubung dengan Agama Islam, hal ehwal masyarakat dan hanya bila terpaksa menyentuh bab siyasah negara.</div>
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<div>Ini disebabkan dasar perlembagaan MBA yang tidak membezakan diantara pegangan ahli MBA dan artikel artikel mereka yang tidak tersasar dari matlamat memperjuangkan kesyumulan Islam akan dipertimbangkan untuk penyiaran semula disini.</div>
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<div>Bagi pendapat peribadi saya, Tuan Zulkifli Noordin mempunyai hujah hujah yang berasas didalam menyanggah kenyataan Dato Seri Nazri Aziz yang menyatakan bahawa keempat negeri tersebut iaitu Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Pulau Pinang, Sabah dan Sarawak tidak mempunyai sekatan ke atas penggunaan kalimah &#8216;Allah&#8217; oleh Kristian.</div>
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<div>Saya ingin bertanya,&#8221; <strong>Sejak bila Dato Seri Nazri Aziz mengambil alih kuasa Duli Yang Maha Mulia Yang Di Pertuan Agong Malaysia selaku KETUA AGAMA ISLAM di negeri negeri dan Wilayah Persekutuan tersebut dimana kita semua sedia maklum bahawa DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di Pertuan Agong adalah diamanahkan oleh Perlembagaan Malaysia menjaga hal ehwal Agama Islam bagi negeri negeri tersebut yang tidak dibwah perintah seorang Sultan atau Raja Melayu?</strong>
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<div>Sejak bila Dato Seri Nazri Aziz diberi kuasa oleh umat Islam di keempat negeri tersebut untuk mewakili mereka?</div>
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<div>Kenyataan tanpa memeikirkan natijah terhadap kedudukan Agama Islam oleh menteri berkenaan amat dikesali kerana soal ini melibatkan kesejahteraan ummah!</div>
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<div>Apakah Dato Seri Nazri Aziz bersedia untuk bertanggungjawab nanti bilamana Gereja Katolik Kristian yang tegar beriya iya menjalankan dakyah mereka kini diberi izin tanpa tauliah oleh seorang menteri yang berkata ia menurut perintah Perdana Menteri, Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak?</div>
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<div>Jangan main main dengan masadepan umat Islam!</div>
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<div>Natijahnya nanti teramat buruk dan menteri menteri berkenaan akan di pertanggungjawabkan nanti sekiranya berlaku kebangkitan ummah yang semakin marah dengan pencerobohan ke atas kesalahgunaan Ismul Allah oleh pihak Kaffir yang TIDAK BERIMAN dan MEMPERCAYAI ALLAHU TA&#8217;ALA sebagai RABBUL ALAMIN!</div>
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<div>Zainol Abideen @ MAHAGURU58</div>
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		<title>&#8216;What will happen when &#8216;Allah&#8217; is used in place of God in the &#8216;Bible&#8217;?</title>
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What will happen when we use Allah for God in the English Bible..?


Jesus said: &#8220;Allah is greater than I&#8221; (John 14:28),
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<p><strong><a href="http://ifirrr.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-will-happen-when-we-use-allah-for.html">What will happen when we use Allah for God in the English Bible..?</a></strong></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Jesus said: <em>&#8220;</em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em> is greater than I&#8221;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;"> </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;">(John 14:28),</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Jesus said the most important commandment is<em> &#8220;Hear, O Israel, the Lord our </em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em>, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your </em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em> with all your &#8230;heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.&#8221;</em> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;">(Mark 12:29-30)</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>&#8220;I am </em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em>, and there is no other; I am </em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em>, and there is none like me&#8221; </em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;">(Isaiah 46:9),</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8216;One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to <strong>Allah.&#8217;</strong> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;">(Luke 6:12),</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>&#8220;Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by </em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em> to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which </em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em> did among you through him, as you yourselves know.&#8221;</em> (Acts 2:22),</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>“I am the LORD your </em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em>, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.”</em> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;">(Exodus 20:2-3; Deuteronomy 5:6-7),</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Jesus prayed to <strong>Allah</strong>:</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>‘Going a little farther, he (Jesus) fell with his face to the ground and prayed, <em>&#8220;</em><strong><em>Allah</em></strong><em>, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.&#8221;</em> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;">(Matthew 26:39),</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>‘Jesus prayed to <strong>Allah</strong> for himself and said, “<em>…Now this is eternal life; that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent…”</em>‘ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;">(John 17:3).</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;">Now I wonder what was the actual teachings of Jesus Christ according to the HOLY BIBLE !!?</span></strong></strong></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffff;"><strong> Bro. Shah Kirit.</strong></span></div>
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<p><span class="post-author vcard"><strong>Dicatat oleh <span class="fn">Firdaus</span> </strong></span><strong> <span class="post-timestamp"> di <a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" rel="bookmark" href="http://ifirrr.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-will-happen-when-we-use-allah-for.html"><abbr class="published" title="2010-01-09T17:12:00+08:00">17:12</abbr></a></span></strong></p>
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<p>I came across this article in the blog of brother Firdaus, Strategic Advisor to PERKIM KL.</p>
<p>I congratulate Brother Firdaus for his insightful outlook as to the consequences to the Catholic Church of Malaysia&#8217;s insistence that they be allowed to publish their Herald Magazine in the Malay language using &#8216;Allah&#8217; as the name of their &#8216;God&#8217;?</p>
<p>I wonder whether the Catholic Church will have the guts to change their &#8216;Bibles&#8217; in English to have the word &#8216;Allah&#8217; replacing the term &#8216;God&#8217;?</p>
<p>Thank you Brother Firdaus for raising this matter. May Allah the Almighty bless you.</p>
<p>Amin!</p>
<p>The true Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta&#8217;ala of course. <img src='http://themuslimbloggersalliance.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>On the use of &#8216;ALLAH&#8217; by The Herald. Hussaini Abdul Karim</title>
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Haven&#8217;t you all come across jokes making fun of Gods?


The numerous Gods that different people and religions pray to. Gods depicted in pictures, photos and videos having hands as many as the millipedes and centipedes, noses that look exactly like an elephant&#8217;s and ears as large as an elephant&#8217;s too.


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<div class="post-body entry-content">The numerous Gods that different people and religions pray to. Gods depicted in pictures, photos and videos having hands as many as the millipedes and centipedes, noses that look exactly like an elephant&#8217;s and ears as large as an elephant&#8217;s too.</div>
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<div class="post-body entry-content">There are Gods who look more like ghosts and monsters to me but what the heck, they are still some people&#8217;s Gods. There are Gods made of stones, steel, timber, paper and and even plastic. Gods that look like clowns, etc., etc.</div>
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<div class="post-body entry-content">Then, the numerous jokes about St Peter, Noah and Abraham, well they are not Gods but Gods&#8217; lackeys. People also make fun of Gautama Buddha; well, he&#8217;s still God to some.</p>
<p>People make fun of other people’s Gods, but when it comes to your turn, you become so agitated.</p>
<p>If you read some publications from the West, they have always, since a very long time ago, make fun of &#8216;Allah&#8217; and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Many of these literature have found its way here. The most common one was about the mountain and the Prophet.</p>
<p>I bought a book on Islamic History in Kuala Lumpur published by Reader&#8217;s Digest some time ago and in it is shown a drawn picture of the Prophet (PBUH) full face and in full gear with his beard, no moustache and his famous gilded sword, looking at a map of areas and territories showing the spread of Islam. As a devoted and staunch Muslim, It (the picture) didn&#8217;t affect me a bit.
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<div class="post-body entry-content">Did Hishammuddin or JAKIM, or the people holding the respective appointments before them, sue all these publications? No, they didn&#8217;t!</p>
<p>Anyway, if KDN and JAKIM and now the PM’s Dept want to file an appeal on the recent verdict on the use of &#8216;Allah&#8217; by the Herald - The Catholic Weekly that didn&#8217;t come their way, fine, go ahead with it. I think the Appeals Court with a totally different set of owl-like learned judges, maybe this time with all Muslim judges, will deem the verdict wrong and say that the judge Madam Justice Lau Bee Lan had erred, and then give the benefit to the plaintiff and the whole thing will start all over again, and there will be no end and becomes fodder for us writers and bloggers both local and foreign, like you and I, for as long as the case continues.</p></div>
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<div class="post-body entry-content">That&#8217;s the way the Malaysian Judiciary System works, if you all had observed it carefully. The Muslims, upon hearing the new verdict, will obviously be very happy and then the Archbishop Dominic Vendargon, Archbishop Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam and Father Lawrence, The Herald’s editor, will probably seek the advice of a Queen’s Counsel (QC), no, this time it will not be Mrs Blair again (though she would very much like to come to Malaysia again), and perhaps they will go all the way to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ( Pope Benedict XVI), for a solution.</p>
<p>Personally, I think, this whole issue has been wrongly handled from Day 1. In the first place, it shouldn&#8217;t have gone to a Civil Court because it is an issue pertaining to religions, viz. Islam and Christianity. So, it should be handled by our Ulamaks and for them to have a dialogue with the Archbishop and his trusted senior aides and and at best, go to the Syariah Court, or any other better forum, if they exists. There, these people should try to amicably settle the issue and remain friends in the spirit of 1Malaysia. The Council of Ulamaks can then come out with a Fatwa that please the majority, otherwise, refer it to the Grand Imam at Al-Azhar, among others, for his grand opinion. We can then move on to better things after that.</p>
<p>I have a feeling that this is a ‘diversion’ created by people in the know and in power to sway us Malaysians, for as long as possible, from talking about and discussing more crucial issues such as the price increase in sugar and some other commodities that will be announced soon, Teoh Beng Hock’s case, where to get the money to pay government servants’ next month&#8217;s salaries (EPF, Tabung Haji, Petronas or borrow from our neighbour?), corruption involving some big fish, etc.</p>
<p>One day, a boy asked a Catholic Priest after completing Sunday Mass, &#8216;Other than praying and preaching, do you have any fun at all?&#8217;</p>
<p>The Priest answered,&#8217; Nun, Nun and Nun.&#8217; Reader’s Digest’, January 2010.</p>
<p>Why aren’t there any more beautiful women in Italy now and Sophia Loren, having past 80, is still considered the most beautiful woman there?</p>
<p>Because, the harems in Rome in the days of the Roman Empire only had men.</p>
<p>Best regards.</p></div>
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I. The Importance of Language in Connection with Mind and Religion
 
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<p><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><span>I. The Importance of Language in Connection with Mind and Religion</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">It was reported that Peter Lombard’s Four Books of Sentences recorded the following concern of Jerome, on “heresy arises from words wrongly used”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Those remarks by St Jerome of Stridonium (d.420), who was regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers, clearly reflected how paramount the importance of language was for him, particularly in relation to theological matters.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The fact is, that there is a profound connection between language and reason, as words and term connote what is conceptualized or understood by the mind.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">To quote Prof. Dr Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas’s latest work Tinjauan Ringkas Peri Ilmu dan Pandangan Alam (Penang:USM,2007), “bahasa merupakan alat akal fikri yang sekaligus juga mempengaruhi pemikiran si penggunanya.” That is to say, “language is the instrument of the reasoning of its users.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">For one may well ask, what is the purpose of language if not to make true meanings of words  to become intelligible to the mind? And as such, what is the fundamental purpose of language if not to project the worldview of its users in a faithful manner?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Because using language correctly is a cognitive action, it is imperative for its users to be meticulous in its “correct usage” as well as in the pursuit of its “authentic meaning.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">As far as fundamental religious matters are concerned, to use language incorrectly introduces confusion to the mind of its users. Words wrongly used will inevitably impinge upon semantic change in theological concepts and the way one views reality and truth.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Hence, the pressing need to exercise constant vigilance in detecting erroneous linguistic usage.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><span>II. The Grammar of Christian Triune God</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">In the Christian context, it is in order to avoid such heresy arising from the erroneous use of words and terms that St Thomas Aquinas (d.1274) said this in his Summa Theologica: “when we speak of the trinity we must proceed with care”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">As if anticipating detractors who would argue that the quest for the right words in divine matters is “toilsome”, Aquinas insisted that it was well worth the effort. St Augustine (d.430), who was arguably the most important Christian thinker after St Paul, said that in comparison to the wrong usage in theology, “nowhere is error more harmful.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Following another eminent doctor of the Western Church, St Hilary of Poitiers (d.c 367), Aquinas advised Christians to shun the term the “singular” God, as that would exclude their notion of God whose essence their notion of God whose essence is common to the three distinct Hypotheses.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Likewise, Aquinas advised Christians to avoid the term the “only” God, as the adjective “only” (Latin unici) would take away their notion of the number of Divine Persons. In Aquinas’s words, “We do not say ‘the only God,’ for Deity is common to many”: referring to their belief that deity is common to the co-eternal Persons: the Father, the only-begotten Son, the Holy Ghost.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><span>III. Translation of the Triune God using the term Allah: A Case of A Word Wrongly Used</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Naturally, I find that there are many contradictions between what was advised by Aquinas, who was the foremost Western theologian of the Church, with the concerns of a few Malaysian Christian leaders recently highlighted in our media. While Aquinas advised his coreligionist to exclude from God the idea of “singularity” or “uniqueness”, a few Christians in Malaysia (or in any country for that matter) insist on translating their notion of a triune God by using the term &#8216;Allah&#8217;.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><span>IV. “He is Allah, the Absolute One…”(al-ikhlas, 112), etc.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">But there a fundamental issues that they have to address first without confusing themselves and creating linguistic anarchy, because among the firmly integral purports of the term Allah are al-Ahad (the Absolute One), al-Wahid (the Absolute Unique) and al-Witr (the Absolute Singular, the Unequalled) Who has no son, nor father, nor partner, nor likeness.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">These purports have been mentioned by way of describing who Allah is in the Qur’an as well as in its interpretation by the authentic traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, who is, for that matter, considered by experts as the most eloquent of the Arabs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">In order for us to see how those worldviews are contrasted to each other, and hence to be careful in our translation, it is sufficient to compare the abovementioned statement on God by Aquinas with the following. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Commenting on the meaning of al-Wahid al-Ahad, Muhyiddin Ibn al-‘Arabi (d.1240) had simply this to say in his Futuhat Makkiyyah: “Allah is Unique, the Absolute One with respect to His godhead, there is no God (Ilah) except He.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">As far as the authentic meaning and correct usage of the term Allah throughout the ages are concerned, the Tahdhib of al-Azhari (d.980) and the Lisan al-‘Arab of Ibn Manzur (d.1311) have documented that, excepting Allah, there is no being to whom the purports of <em>al-Wahid</em> and <em>al-Ahad</em> are applicable together, or to whom al-Ahad is applicapble alone. ”Verily,I,-I alone-am Allah: there is no God (Ilah) but I: therefore worship Me” (the Qur’an, Ta Ha, 20:14).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><span>V. Allãh is a Proper Name; God is a Common Name</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">That is why the term Allah is a proper name which is never shared by others throughout the history of language. The term Allah is not “communicable both in reality and in opinion”, if we want to use Aquinas’s technical terminology.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">On the contrary, such terms as Ilah (God in Arabic), Tuhan (God in Malay) or God (in English) are communicable, and have indeed been used to others. Earlier, we have noted Aquinas’s assertion that the term God is common to the three Summa Theologica which explains the statement an eastern theological doctor of the Greek and Latin Churches.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><span>VI. Allãh is a Proper Noun; God is an appellative Noun</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Now, according to St John of Damascus, the term God in Greek as well as in Latin (theo) is a derivative, from either of these three root-words. It is either from a particular word which means “to cherish all things”, or from another word which means “to burn” (for the Christian God is “a consuming fire”, according to St John), or from another word which means “to consider all things”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Marshalling his argument on that premise, Aquinas concluded that the name God in this context is not a proper noun. On the contrary, it is an appellative noun, or a title, for it signifies the divine nature in the possessor, either in the sense that He is the “Cherisher”, the “Taker of account of everything”, or the “Comprehender of everything”, and so on.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><span>VII. Allãh Has No Plural; God’s Plural is Gods</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Aquinas also corroborated his significant conclusion by the fact that the term God has plural (Gods), as in the Biblical text “God presides in heavenly council; in the assembly of the Gods he gives his decision… I have said, You are Gods” (Psalms 82.1,6).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Here, the argument on the right to translate a common noun God using the proper noun Allah crumbles; it is only correct to translate God using Tuhan. As far as the proper noun Allah is concerned, it has absolutely no plural, reflecting the notion on the One and Only God whose Essence absolutely excludes the purport of consisting of three distinct co-eternal persons, whether in the imagination, in actuality, or in supposition.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">“Do not say:’Trinity’.Desist [from this assertion] it is better for you! Allah is but the Only God (Ilah Wahid); Glory be to Him-that He should have a son!” (The Qur’an, al-Nisa’,4:171)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><span>VIII. The Proper Noun Allãh Neither Belongs to Any National Language Nor a Derivative</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Furthermore, the fact that it is a proper noun alone renders erroneous the critical assumption that the term Allah belongs to a notion language and is an Arabic derivative. Indeed, for those who care enough to check the truth, such an absurd claim has long been debunked as inconsistent with the rules of the Arabic language itself by authorities like Ibn al-Barri, a-Layth and al-Khalil (d.160/777) in his Kitab al-‘Ayn.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Al-Zabidi, in his Taj al-‘Arus, remarked that “the most sound view on the name Allah is that it is a proper noun given by the Essence, the Necessary Being. The name Allah combines the attributes of Perfection altogether, it is a non-derivative word.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Then, al-Zabidi (d.1790) quotes he authority of Ibn al’Arabi (d.1240), who stated that “the term Allah is a proper name denoting the real and true God (al-Ilah al-Haqq), a denotion that comprises all the Unique most beautiful Divine Names.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Last but far least on the “correct usage” and “authentic meaning” of the term Allah, al-Tahanawi (d.1745), in his dictionary of the technical terms relating to metaphysics, the Kashshaf Istilahat al-Funun, stated that “it is inspired to His servants that the real name Allah is a proper name of the Essence… The verifiers (al-Muhaqqiqun) holds that the name Allah is a non-derivative word; indeed, it is an extemporized proper name (ism murtajal) as it can be described but does not describe.”</span></p>
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		<title>PENGHAKIMAN KES KALIMAH ALLAH MEMBERI KESAN TERHADAP AGAMA PERSEKUTUAN OLEH : ZAINUL RIJAL ABU BAKAR</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keputusan Hakim Datuk Lau Bee Lan 31 Disember 2009 lepas yang membenarkan Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur menggunakan kalimah Allah  dalam penerbitan mingguannya, Herald –The Catholic Weekly merupakan suatu tamparan yang hebat kepada usaha memartabatkan agama Islam sebagai “ Agama Negara”. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keputusan Hakim Datuk Lau Bee Lan 31 Disember 2009 lepas yang membenarkan Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur menggunakan kalimah Allah  dalam penerbitan mingguannya, Herald –The Catholic Weekly merupakan suatu tamparan yang hebat kepada usaha memartabatkan agama Islam sebagai “ Agama Negara”. </p>
<p>Masyarakat Islam arus perdana melihat penghakiman ini sebagai suatu perkara yang akan menimbulkan kekeliruan dan kegusaran di kalangan umat Islam. </p>
<p>Penghakiman ini juga dilihat menghakis keistimewaan agama Islam sebagai agama Persekutuan.</p>
<p>Saya sendiri mendapat banyak panggilan telefon , emel dan surat bertanyakan kesan penghakiman tersebut terhadap kedudukan agama Islam di Malaysia khususnya. </p>
<p>Dalam beberapa hari sahaja penghakiman tersebut dikeluarkan keluhan dan ketidakpuasan hati umat Islam ini telah dizahirkan di dalam media-media arus perdana dan media alternatif.</p>
<p>Sebenarnya pendirian umat Islam bukanlah hendak memadam kalimah Allah di dalam kitab-kitab suci agama lain tetapi hanyalah berkisar di sebalik undang-undang yang berkuatkuasa di dalam negara dan keluhuran Perlembagaan Persekutuan. </p>
<p>Perkara ini jelas kerana agama Sikh umpamanya yang menggunakan kalimah Allah di dalam bahasa asal kitab suci mereka tidak pernah dihalang daripada membaca ataupun  mengamalkan ajaran di dalam kitab asal mereka. </p>
<p>Malah pendirian yang diambil oleh umat Islam bukanlah “peperangan antara kitab suci” tetapi lebih kepada memberi makna dan tafsiran yang jelas kepada peruntukan yang ada di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang disanjung oleh segenap warganegara Malaysia. </p>
<p>Permasalahan yang timbul ialah penerbitan  Herald- The Catholic Weekly ini boleh digapai oleh orang ramai termasuklah orang Islam. Ia sudah tentu diedarkan dan tiada jaminan ia tidak akan sampai kepada orang Islam.</p>
<p>Walaupun usaha beberapa Majlis Islam negeri-negeri seperti Selangor, Wilayah Persekutuan, Trengganu, Johor, Melaka, Pulau Pinang, Perak  dan Kedah  serta Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association (MACMA) gagal mencelah di dalam kes ini, namun usaha ini haruslah diberi penghargaan yang tinggi kerana khususnya Majlis Agama telah menjalankan tanggungjawab statutori mereka di dalam mempertahankan agama Islam dan MACMA yang merupakan NGO tunggal berbuat demikian. Namun persoalan lain pula, di manakah Majlis-Majlis Agama Islam negeri lain? </p>
<p>Adakah mereka juga bersekongkol dan bersetuju kalimah Allah ini boleh digunakan oleh pihak Gereja di dalam penerbitan mereka? </p>
<p>Majlis-Majlis Agama mempunyai tanggungjawab statutori menasihati Sultan di dalam hal ehwal agama malah menjaga agama juga diletakkan di bawah tanggungjawab Majlis Agama.</p>
<p>Hanya Islam sahaja satu-satunya  agama yang disebut di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan. </p>
<p>Tiada agama lain disebut secara spesifik di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan melainkan hanya disebut sebagai boleh diamalkan dalam keadaan aman dan harmoni dalam negara sahaja. </p>
<p>Ini adalah jaminan Perlembagaan bahawa pengamalan agama lain oleh orang bukan Islam dibenarkan tertakluk kepada Perkara 11(4) iaitu berkaitan sekatan penyebaran agama bukan Islam kepada orang Islam.</p>
<p>Umat Islam adalah umat majoriti di  negara kita. Perkara 3(1) Perlembagaan Persekutuan menyatakan Agama Islam ialah agama bagi Persekutuan; tetapi agama-agama lain boleh diamalkan dengan aman dan damai di mana-mana bahagian Persekutuan. </p>
<p>Makna ‘boleh diamalkan dengan aman dan damai’ ialah agama lain selain agama Islam boleh diamalkan di mana-mana bahagian Persekutuan selagi ia tidak menghakis kedamaian dan keamanan agama bagi Persekutuan iaitu Islam. Inilah kedudukan istimewa Islam.</p>
<p>Kedudukan istimewa Islam ini bolehlah di fahami kerana terdapat peruntukan-peruntukan yang lain yang memberi kelebihan kepada Islam sebagai agama Persekutuan sebagaimana yang termaktub di dalam Perkara 3(1) Perlembagaan Persekutuan, antaranya:</p>
<p>a)  Perkara 11(4) Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang memperuntukkan bahawa negeri-negeri boleh mewartakan undang-undang menghalang orang-orang bukan Islam menyebarkan dakyah agama mereka kepada orang Islam Undang-undang Negeri dan mengenai Wilayah-Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur dan Labuan, undang-undang persekutuan boleh mengawal atau menyekat pengembangan apa-apa iktikad atau kepercayaan ugama antara orang-orang yang menganuti ugama Islam.;</p>
<p>b) Perkara 12(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang memperuntukkan Kerajaan Persekutuan diberikuasa untuk mengurus dan menghulur bantuan kepada institusi Islam seperti masjid, sekolah agama dan juga bagi tujuan pembagunan syiar Islam;</p>
<p>c) Perkara 74(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan pula memperuntukkan Kerajaan Negeri berkuasa membuat undang-undang bagi mentadbir urusan agama Islam.</p>
<p>d) Perkara 121(1A) Perlembagaan Persekutuan juga telah memberi pengiktirafan kepada Mahkamah Syariah untuk mendengar kes-kes dan persoalan mengenai agama Islam dan Mahkamah Sivil tidak boleh campurtangan, membatalkan ataupun tidak menghiraukan keputusan Mahkamah Syariah.</p>
<p>Penghakiman Hakim Datuk Lau Bee Lan itu memberi kesan yang amat ketara terhadap orang Islam. </p>
<p>Ini bermakna orang bukan Islam bebas menggunakan kalimah Allah di dalam penerbitan mereka tersebut selagi ianya adalah di edarkan di kalangan orang bukan Islam. </p>
<p>Persoalan yang timbul pula apakah jaminan ianya tidak akan diedarkan kepada orang Islam? </p>
<p>Penerbitan tersebut tidak hanya diedarkan di gereja sahaja. Kenapakah pihak gereja begitu beria-ia mahu menggunakan kalimah Allah ini? </p>
<p>Tidakkah dengan menggunakan kalimah Allah ini ia akan menggugat kedamaian dan keamanan agama bagi Persekutuan?</p>
<p>Malah keujudan Enakmen Kawalan Pengembangan Agama Bukan Islam Di Kalangan Orang Islam  yang digubal berdasarkan Perkara 11(4) juga tidak mempunyai signifikan secara realitinya.  </p>
<p>Enakmen yang telah ujud di beberapa negeri sejak berpuluh tahun masih tidak dilaksanakan. Malah ada negeri yang telah meluluskan enakmen ni masih tidak mewartakan dan memberi tarikh pelaksanaannya.</p>
<p>Empat buah negeri pula iaitu Wilayah Persekutuan, Pulau Pinang, Sabah dan Sarawak masih belum menggubal undang-undang yang sama walaupun mantan Perdana Menteri Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sendiri semasa menjadi Perdana Menteri telah berjanji dan mengarahkan negeri-negeri ini menggubal undang-undang tersebut. </p>
<p>Sememangnya kepentingan agama Islam seringkali dipinggirkan semasa membuat sebarang tindakan oleh pelbagai pihak. Kenapa kita terlalu abai dalam perkara ini? </p>
<p>Dalam keadaan yang agak tegang ini saya menyeru kepada pihak kerajaan supaya dengan kadar yang segera memfailkan rayuan terhadap keputusan Hakim Lau Bee Lan ini serta memohon menggantung perintah yang dikeluarkan itu. </p>
<p>Saya juga menyeru supaya pihak Kerajaan melaksanakan segera Enakmen Kawalan Pengembangan Agama Bukan Islam di Kalangan Orang Islam dan bagi negeri-negeri yang belum menggubal undang-undang tersebut hendaklah berbuat demikian dengan kadar segera.</p>
<p>Majlis Raja –Raja Melayu sebagai ketua  agama negeri-negeri juga perlu membuat ketetapan yang tegas berkaitan dengan perkara ini selaras dengan sumpah jawatan baginda mempertahankan Islam pada setiap masa. </p>
<p>Malah  Yang Di Pertuan Agong menurut Perkara 130 Perlembagaan Persekutuan  juga boleh merujuk  ke Mahkamah Persekutuan bagi pentafsiran Perkara 3 tersebut.</p>
<p>Perkara 130 tersebut menyebut Yang di-Pertuan Agong boleh merujukkan kepada Mahkamah Persekutuan untuk pendapatnya apa-apa soal tentang kesan mana-mana peruntukan Perlembagaan ini yang telah berbangkit atau yang tampak padanya mungkin berbangkit, dan Mahkamah Persekutuan hendaklah mengumumkan pendapatnya tentang apa-apa soal yang dirujukkan sedemikian kepadanya itu di dalam mahkamah terbuka.</p>
<p>Oleh yang demikian jika Yang di Pertuan Agong merujuk kepada Mahkamah Persekutuan berkaitan isu ini mungkin akan meredakan ketegangan yang dihadapi oleh umat Islam sekarang.</p>
<p>Tindakan Kementerian Dalam Negeri melarang pihak Gereja menggunakan kalimah Allah adalah kerana KDN sebagai salah sebuah organ kerajaan perlu mempertahankan ikrar Yang Di Pertuan Agong semasa menaiki tahkta iaitu mempertahankan Islam pada setiap masa. Oleh itu segala tindakan yang dibuat oleh pihak kerajaan perlulah sejajar dengan ikrar mempertahankan Islam ini. Secara mudahnya, setiap urusan kerajaan adalah disifatkan sebagai Urusan Seri Paduka Baginda (sebagaimana tertera di dalam sampul surat jabatan kerajaan). Oleh yang demikian adalah tidak masuk akal, urusan tersebut mencabul ikrar yang dibuat oleh Seri Paduka Baginda itu.</p>
<p>Kementerian Dalam Negeri perlu segera merayu keputusan kes ini kerana ia melibatkan kedudukan agama Islam di Malaysia apatah lagi keputusan mahkamah tertinggi di dalam negara perlu bagi menyelesaikan kedudukan ini secara muktamad.</p>
<p>Penulis adalah Presiden Persatuan Peguam-Peguam Muslim Malaysia dan boleh dihubungi di <a href="mailto:zainul.rijal@abubakar.my">zainul.rijal@abubakar.my.</a></p>
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		<title>Mahaguru58 wishes all Christians peace and goodwill!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assalamualaikum.
May peace be upon you.
To all Christians of the world, I take this opportunity to wish you well on your festive occasion today.
Those of you who are celebrating today, ought to take extra precautions when being on the roads and highways of our nation.
Take this moment to foster and renew your relations with your loved [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Assalamualaikum.</p>
<p>May peace be upon you.</p>
<p>To all Christians of the world, I take this opportunity to wish you well on your festive occasion today.</p>
<p>Those of you who are celebrating today, ought to take extra precautions when being on the roads and highways of our nation.</p>
<p>Take this moment to foster and renew your relations with your loved ones and those who are your friends and acquaintances.</p>
<p>As fellow Malaysians, we ought to come together in the spirit of national unity and strengthen our community with mutual care and compassion towards one another.</p>
<p>We might differ in our religious beliefs but that should not be a hindrance to our coming together as one and ensure that our nation continues to be a melting pot of good natured, God fearing men and women, who have been born and bred in this blessed land.</p>
<p>Malaysia is unique in a sense that we can still live in relative peace and harmony. Our country has survived all these years because many of us choose to look at the positive sides of life although we might at times see slight differences of opinion and standpoints.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, we still need to come to the understanding that God Almighty created us all into various tribes and races not that we may bicker continuously amongst us but to come together as His Servants whom He has blessed with the goodness in our spirits and our hearts.</p>
<p>This natural inborn spirit of goodness exists in all of us and those who lose it along their journeys of life can rediscover it if they make the effort to stop for a moment and ponder upon their choices?</p>
<p>As a Malaysian Muslim, I choose to live in peace and harmony with all of you, my fellow bloggers and fellow Malaysians, be you my fellow Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Orang Asli&#8217;s, etcetera.</p>
<p>We all have a choice, dear brothers and sisters.</p>
<p>We all originate from Our Father the Prophet Adam (Alaihis Salam ~ may peace be upon him) and Our Mother Sayyidatina Hawwa @ Eve (Radhiallahu Anha ~ upon her be Allah&#8217;s Blessings).</p>
<p>Just like the various colors of the rose, we differ in the color of our skin, eye color, physical attributes and general make up of our selfs yet we are all technically the same in our being human beings.</p>
<p>I respect and appreciate the spirit of giving that has come to be associated with Christmas. That is a very good act that will foster goodwill amongst mankind.</p>
<p>In order for us to co-exist in peace and harmony as fellow Malaysians and the general Family of Mankind as brothers and sisters in this earthly life, I call upon you, my dear reader to wish each other well and come to understand that Our Lord Almighty wishes us well as per His Revelation here :<br />
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<p>Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.<br />
In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.</p>
<p align="RIGHT"><img src="http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/gif/002/002_025.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>25.  Wabashshiri alla<span style="text-decoration: underline;">th</span>eena <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>manoo waAAamiloo a<strong>l</strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ssa</span>li<span style="text-decoration: underline;">ha</span>ti anna lahum jann<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>tin tajree min ta<span style="text-decoration: underline;">h</span>tih<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> al-anh<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>ru kullam<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> ruziqoo minh<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> min thamaratin rizqan q<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>loo h<span style="text-decoration: underline;">atha</span> alla<span style="text-decoration: underline;">th</span>ee ruziqn<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> min qablu waotoo bihi mutash<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>bihan walahum feeh<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> azw<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>jun mu<span style="text-decoration: underline;">t</span>ahharatun wahum feeh<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> kh<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>lidoon<strong>a</strong></p>
<p>25. But <span style="font-weight: bold;">give glad tidings to those who believe and work righteousness</span>, that their portion is the Gardens (Paradise) beneath which rivers flow. Every time they are fed with fruits therefrom, They say: &#8220;Why, this is what we were fed with before,&#8221; For they are given things in similitude; And they have therein Companions pure (and holy); And they abide therein (for ever).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/quran/00203.htm">Surah Al Baqarah. Chapter 2 Verse 25</a>.</p>
<p align="RIGHT"><img src="http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/gif/005/005_082.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>82.  Latajidanna ashadda a<strong>l</strong>nn<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>si AAad<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>watan lilla<span style="text-decoration: underline;">th</span>eena <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>manoo alyahooda wa<strong>a</strong>lla<span style="text-decoration: underline;">th</span>eena ashrakoo walatajidanna aqrabahum mawaddatan lilla<span style="text-decoration: underline;">th</span>eena <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>manoo alla<span style="text-decoration: underline;">th</span>eena q<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>loo inn<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> na<span style="text-decoration: underline;">sa</span>r<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">tha</span>lika bi-anna minhum qisseeseena waruhb<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span>nan waannahum l<span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> yastakbiroon<strong>a</strong></p>
<p>82. Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans;<span style="font-weight: bold;"> and nearest among them in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, <span>&#8220;We are Christians&#8221;</span></span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/quran/00511.htm">Surah Al Ma&#8217;idah Chapter 5:82</a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
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<p>Similarities between us do exist as shown below here in our main prayers :</p>
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<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Islam </span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span><span>The Muslim Prayer</span></span></span></strong></td>
<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Christianity </span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span><span>The Christian prayer</span></span></span></strong></td>
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<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>The Al-Fateha [The Opening]</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>The Qur&#8217;an 1:1-7</span></span></td>
<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Matthew 6:9-13</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>[The New Testament, King James version]</span></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span><strong>(a)</strong> <strong>Adoration</strong></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, the Compassionate, the Merciful. King of the Day of Reckoning.</span></span></td>
<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>(a) Adoration</span></span></strong> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Our Father who art in heaven,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Hallowed be thy name.</span></span></td>
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<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>(b) Submission</span></span></strong> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Thee only do we worship and of Thee only do we ask aid.</span></span></td>
<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>(b) Submission</span></span></strong> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Thy Kingdom come.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven.</span></span></td>
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<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>(c) Supplication</span></span></strong> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Guide us unto the right path - </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>the path of those to whom Thou hast </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>been gracious,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>not the path of those who are the objects </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>of Thy wrath, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>nor of those who have gone astray. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Amen</span></span></td>
<td><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>(c) Supplication</span></span></strong> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Give us this day our daily bread.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors [Other translations say:<strong> "</strong></span><strong><span>Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.</span><span>"</span></strong><span>]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>And lead us not into temptation,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>But deliver us from evil.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>For Thine is the Kingdom,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>The Power and the Glory.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span>For ever and ever. <em>Amen</em></span></span></td>
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<p><span>Source</span> : <a href="http://muslim-canada.org/islam_christianity.html">http://muslim-canada.org/islam_christianity.html</a></p>
<p>Let us try our best to look for things that are common between us and learn to live and let live instead of getting embroiled in unnecessary conflicts between us. We can if we really want to?</p>
<p>You can start by visiting <a style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://muslim-canada.org/islam_christianity.html">here</a> and read up about it. We can all benefit by learning about each other better.</p>
<p>Knowledge is power and those who are learned will surely stand a better chance of living in God&#8217;s Way and not be amongst those who are engulfed in Ignorance.</p>
<p>Na&#8217;uzubillah! May God Forbid!</p>
<p>Have a joyous day with your loved ones and be safe on the roads.</p>
<p>On behalf of <a href="http://www.themuslimbloggersalliance.org/">The Muslim Bloggers Alliance</a>, I wish you all well.</p>
<p>May God bless and guide us all.</p>
<p>Ameen.</p>
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