If all-ah is forbidden to be spoken by non-mu-slim in Ma*-lay-Sia**, can i say Ji*-had?
Honestly speaking, i think this is a little shame for Ma-lay-Sia. Everybody in the world uses the word Allah as a reference to God in the Arabic language, why can't Ma-lay-Sia follow the international standard?
This is more or less like engineering. Just to share with you, engineers have some standards to follow in doing tests or designing stuff. For example, we use meters, seconds and kilograms as standard units. These are all in the ISO. However, some countries do have standards of their own, that is if they have strong engineering background. For example, Germans and Americans have their own standards for their respective engineering. Like negative symbol for work input and positive symbol for work output in USA; but its the other way round in Germany.
To see things in the accounting context, most parts of the world follow the ACCA. If you are ACCA chartered accountant, it means you are some bloody good certified accountant that most people in most parts of the world would agree with
you even if you bull-shit. But in Japan, even if you are an ACCA chartered accountant, the Japs don't really care. You want to get the Japs recognition, you take THEIR very own accounting tests and get THEIR council to charter you. This sounds more like the case of Ma-lay-sia, but please remember that the Japs do this because they have a very strong financial background, just like the Germans and USA in their engineering field. Japan has the second largest economy in the world, after USA.
So, back to the religious context. Allah means God in Arabic. Jews used it. Christians used it. Many other people who speak Arabic used it. But why Ma-lay-Sia forbid it? Maybe because they chaired the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in 2007. With that only strong Islamic background, they announced, in 1988, that the word all-ah is exclusively for **Mu**-slim.
Well, they can do whatever they want because it's their country. They can have their own standards of religion. It's the same as USA having their own standard of engineering and Japan their own standard of accountancy.
The highlight came when people burn a couple of churches for they using the word all-ah. Now, THIS is taking things a little too far. Do you see Japanese Yakuza slashing ACCA chartered accountants working in Japan? Do you see USA engineers launching rockets at German engineers working in USA? No. But why people burning churches in Ma-lay-Sia?
This act of Ma-lay-Sia Ji-had is not holy or whatever those vandals call it. It is simply childish, shameful and absolutely a stuff of laugh. What a shame. But i have to respect that, because Ma-lay-Sia's only strong aspect is religion, proudly displayed by the Ji-had vandals and the all-ah rule, nothing else. NOTHING else.
Disclaimer:
*Ma is the person's false name from China. The person's real name is not shown to protect the real identity of the China guy.**
Sia is the person's false name. She is from Thailand and that her real identity is protected as well. In this article, Ma-lay-sia is termed as such because it was Ma who laid Sia at the first place and taunted by his friends in China for getting a Thai hooker. Both Ma and Sia had committed suicide.
***Ji is a young lady in Korea who tried her best efforts to make into the enterntainment scene. She HAD a pet tiger who reportedly ate her.
**Mu** is a false name for an Indonesian guy to protect his identity. He is known to be the slimmest person walking in Jakarta.
