Go-head, now go-stan back! Tomorrow, people make noise again go-head pulak!
See, I told you, it's all about realpolitik, not ideological, what more theological.
Now, the federal government has relented (tahu takut!) and agreed that “Christians in the two Malaysian Borneo states can continue to use ‘Allah’ for printing the term in Malay as they have done for the last 300 years” but not in West Malaysia.
East Malaysians residing in West Malaysia will have to abide by the "Allah for Muslims only" prohibition.
Read the Malaysiakini report here.
Minister Nazri Aziz explained this latest go-stan stance of the federal government.
"Christians in Sabah and Sarawak need not worry over this issue because it is a common tradition there. I have been to an Iban church service and I heard ‘Allah’ used there,", Nazri explained.
On why the different positions for East and West Malaysia, Nazri said that "the situation in the Peninsula is different as ‘Allah’ was only introduced into Christian worship and publication a few years ago".
"Muslims in Peninsular Malaysia cannot accept it as ‘Allah’ was never used in Christian preaching until recently and they questioned the motive behind the substitution of Tuhan for ‘Allah’”, was his explanation.
Not that I am for or against it, but if you want to know more about the history of the word "Allah" as claimed by people who are against Non-Muslims using it read SatD's posting: The Problem of Meaning, Abdullah Paderi and the Pangkor Treaty here.
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