Malaysia's Allah Dispute - what can we do to help the situation?

Remember my article dated 29th October 2009 with regards to the seizing of Bibles because they substituted the word God to Allah? Well i never expected it's going to be a big issue back then. And here we are after just a few months we heard attacks on churches and masjids. But again there from my point of view (again very limited), there must have been a mistake in the court when the court had decided to allow such substitution to be allowed on the bible as the direct translation of God. Subhanallah! What is happening here? I was not surprised with the protest made by our Muslim brothers in KL (see video below). 

But i guess politically they have won when they raised the issue of the freedom of religion and also the usage of the word Allah during pre-Islamic time. What was our defenses to this? Muslim sensitivity? That is not enough. Indeed the word Allah has/is being used in the Arabic version of the bible.


For the case of the those extremist if i may, who have started the bombing of the churches, one thing i could ask them..siapa suruh?! Islam teaches us that we do not oppress until we are being oppressed. Lain lah hal with the swedish cartoonist yang membuat cartoon on our Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W)..atu of course an insult, which is another form of oppression. And also these so called extremist...are they really practising Islam? are they really orang orang yang beriman? Are they really willing to participate or join for a real jihad?? 

So help me out here dear Muslim brothers and Islam. Why do they want to use the word Allah now? Why not few years ago or a decade ago? That is my only question. Apparently only Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) and Indonesia churches has been using the word Allah all this time (baru ku tau jua) and yet there were no argument being raised! ani yang mbagi paning ni. Obviously there's some miscommunication breakdown here between East Malaysia and Sabah/Sarawak. If this is being successfully practised there and now they want to spread it to East Malaysia..who knows it could spread to Brunei? (nauzubillah) 


Do not let this happen and let them produced that 'license' to spread to other countries.


Before i go i would like to share with you a lecture by my one of my favourite scholars Yusuf Estes on the topic called "Why Muslims Say Allah". Baik jua ku sampat mengupload ke youtube kan tetidur sudah..sikit. hehe. I don't want to explain to you what's the lecture about you just listen to yourself. Basically he will give you an introduction the origin of the word Allah. 


You can download more lectures from him from iTunes...FOR FREE! What i like about him is that ia berdawah with humour. He is the only funniest scholars i've ever come across. For me he is the urang putih version of Ismail Kamus. 

http://www.ipodislam.com/podcast.php

May Allah guided us. I love you Allah..more than anything.



So what are your thoughts brothers and sister (in Islam)? Apa comment biskita..