With the recent decision by the Kuala Lumpur High Court from lifting the Malaysian Home Ministry ban on the use of word 'Allah' to describe 'God' in the Christian weekly publication, the Herald, Muslims group are strongly demanding the Barisan Nasional government to ban the use of the 'Allah' word by non-muslims.
It is now reported that the Prime Ministers' Department is expected to make an appeal to the Court to reimpose the ban until a more reasonable stand is arised at between the Muslim and Christian communities.
The Christian communities claim that they have been using this term for more than 400 years while in Sarawak it is very commonly used in Churches since the language used is Bahasa Malaysia.
The Muslim community feel threaten that there will be a abuse in the use of this term whereby creating a trife between Islam and Christianity.
Various UMNO and Malay link NGO's have express concern that the federal government need to intervene and resolve this matter since Malaysia practices a multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi religious concept.
There is also a strong call on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak to intervene into this matter and explain how it affects is 1 MALAYSIA concept which if really were to be implemented would create greater misunderstanding between the Muslim and Christian communities in Malaysia.
Every sensible Malaysian knows that the higher Courts would favour the exclusive use of the term 'Allah' by Malaysian Muslims only whereby disallowing non-Muslims from using this word despite their use for generations.
The best platform to settle this matter would be for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak to intervene and find an amicably solution.
The Christian and Muslim groups need to be warmed from discussing on this issue until a amicably solution is found by these leaders.
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