Race and Religion.

I live in Malaysia, a country with multi racial population. Malay, Chinese, and Indian constitute the core race of Malaysia. I was born Malay and naturally I'm a muslim. Recently, I was highly intrigue with the issue of the usement of the word Allah by the Christian in Malaysia. Now, the Christians in my country, would want to use the word in their magazine, to preach Christianity among the Malay speaking population not necessarily in Malay. The goverment impose a ban on this, and the court recently lift it up.

It is funny to me if this is to be regard as an effort to protect the religion. Whereas there's numerous area which we neglected, propelling our race and religion towards greater downfall. Malays drinking openly in public, aldultery, buying lottery, gambling, drug abuse and the list goes on.

The word Allah, in Arabs means God. The muslims god is not Allah, the muslim god is God. It does not have name, as in John Milton, Toby Sanchez or Malek Mardose. We use the word Allah as a reference to him in this physical world. He's great because he does not have name, place or physical being. That's why God is great.

Other religion may adopt the word Allah as much as they wish, but the perception, concept and nature of the understanding of Allah between the Muslim are far different.

If we truly understand this, we would drop this issue completely and start raising other issue in regards of our degrading race and religion. We should look elsewhere, and looking elsewhere we should.