July 20, 2012
Making a Big Fuss over Allah is a pointer of Insecurity
by Susan Loone@www.malaysiakini.com
While make make use of of of a Arabic word for God, 'Allah', has been a hot topic in between Muslims as well as Christians in a country, a eminent contemporary thinker as well as philosopher sees discussion upon a make a difference as carrying been "too simplistic".
Speaking during a harangue in Penang upon Wednesday, Prof Tariq Ramadan pronounced that
for someone entrance from a Arab world, arguments as to either a non-Muslim could make make use of of a word 'Allah' were "completely out of touch with reality".
Tariq who lectures during a University of Oxford in England pronounced Christians were regulating a word 'Allah' much earlier, prior to a Muslims in Egypt did because, in Arabic, a tenure equates to 'God'.
"When you verbalise about God, you make make use of of a word Allah. It equates to a single God as well as no other God," he pronounced in a harangue organised by a Penang Islamic Foundation in George Town.
"So, suppose you say you cannot make make use of of this word because it is ours, you would be monopolising a word," he told a 500-strong crowd during a two-hour session.
"It additionally equates to you have been not confident in a language," quipped a successful Islamic scholar, who is a Swiss adult of Egyptian origin.
In January 2010, Catholic weekly The Herald won a suit in a High Court, which overruled a anathema by a Home Affairs Ministry upon a weekly's make make use of of of a tenure 'Allah' in a Bahasa Malaysia edition, -! which ha d stirred burning protests from certain buliding nationwide.
On a three-day tour
The Federal Government has since appealed a decision of a High Court, which additionally granted a stay in favour of a Home Ministry to stop The Herald, from regulating a word 'Allah', pending an interest by a Ministry.
Tariq who is a grandson of Hassan Al-Banna, a founder of a Muslim Brotherhood was upon a three-day harangue debate of Penang as well as Kuala Lumpur, from July 17-19.
He additionally spoke prior to a well-attended crowd during a home of PKR de facto personality Anwar Ibrahim in Kuala Lumpur last night. Tariq additionally pronounced in Penang upon Wednesday which some liberals believed which even when speaking in a English language, a single contingency make make use of of a word 'Allah'. However, this was not a reality.
Muslims believed which farrago of languages was a pointer of God's presence. Not allowing others to make make use of of a word 'Allah' showed "inferiority formidable as well as which you have been not confident" about a principles, he added.
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