this is a very long but intersting article by wan imran wan chik.
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11 Churches attacked by arsonist, a result from Muslim extremist in Malaysia had finally put Malaysia in International headlines. From the front cover of International Herald Tribune ( IHT ), to the front cover of Financial Times ( FT ), to reports on [...]

remember in my selangau trip report here and here, i mentioned about interviewing some of the natives there on the allah issue? most of them respond with “nadai namanama!” – that is, in the iban language, “no problem!”.  yes, to the sarawakians, christians and muslim alike, to them there’s no problem at all regarding the [...]

ok so police did their job and investigated this facebook posting…

…and had realesed the youth they detained after he claimed what he posted was a hoax.
now will the police please investigate these two umnoputera:

here’s the latest issue of the herald (10 jan. 2010). i wonder after all the publicity, will more people be reading the herald? uh oh, no lah. herald is not on sale in public at all. the herald are only sent to churches for distribution among the church goers. well… maybe more church goers [...]

good lord! ya allah! what’s happening!! 4 churches in a day being attacked.
it’s all over the media now… and facebook and twitter. i’m sure you had read about it already so am not going to expand further.  remember to read about this issue at:
malaysiakini
the malaysian insider
freemalaysia today

this picture, a church in indonesia,  is taken from a friend’s facebook.

the words up there right above the cross – ‘allah itu kasih’ (god is love).
see? indonesia is a muslim country… the muslim population much much more than the muslim population in malaysia, yet they have no problem with others using allah. why then umno [...]

… because the government is fighting for the exclusive use of the word ‘allah’.
many UMNO ministers had spoken up, and also the past PM and the past MB of selangor (how’s your mourning, dear toyo?) to say the court’s decision in allowing herald to use the word allah is wrong.  isn’t that a shame? a [...]

… didn’t i already said that again and again?
so good. the court says yes to the use of allah for the catholic church weekly, the herald (pic here shows the herald editor, fr. lawrence) in the forefront). however, i wouldn’t dare to celebrate yet… because who knows the home minister might appeal to the court [...]