The Torching of Najib's 1Malaysia!

The burning of the churches is no problem to us Christians in Sabah. We can always rebuild a bigger and better Church to replace what has been burnt. After all what is important to us is the “Church” in the heart of Christians and not the building. I take this opportunity to thank the BN govt and the people concerned for persecuting and oppressing us. Thank you very much and we forgive you.

What I fail to understands is WHY a group of people after performing their Friday prayers to a God Almighty can still be so full of hatred in their hearts? WHY? Something is wrong here.

The issue of the kalimah “Allah” is with us the East Malaysian and not the West Malaysians Christians. Both the Catholic and Protestant Churches here uses the kalimah “Allah” in their BM worship and services. We have been using it for ages now, even way before the formation of Malaysia. Now the BN government want us to stop us using the word because of objections from some ignorant and misguided muslims. We are told that we have to be sensitive to them? Is it reasonable, fair and just for the govt to force us to do so? By doing so, is the govt sensitive to us? I believe that sensitivity is a two way street, and not a one way one as esposed by the mob.

By the way, for your information we are still using the kalimah “Allah” in our Bahasa Malaysia Church service. Its use will be continued no matter what the government, the court or the King says. As a consequence of this unjust law, all Christians attending any BM church services and worships are made into criminals. In this case I don't mind breaking the law. My stand is that no man, government or King have the right to tell/force/compel us on how to call our God! Do these mere mortals think they are God?

Where will this stop? Will the BN govt also prohibit us from using other BM/arabic words like Amin, Nabi, Rasul, Kitab, malaikat, names of prophets (Isa, Mariam, Daud, Musa etc.) in order to appease the sensitivities of some muslims?

Are the Iban’s also going to be stopped from using their Iban bible which also uses the word “Allah”? How about the Sikhs who also uses “Allah” in their holy book? Unbeknown to most of us, the Sabah State Govt (UMNO) without any whimper from the “dan lain-lain” state ministers through the Mufti of Sabah have issued a fatwah on this since 2003 (Sabah Govt Gazzette 2003).

The BN/UMNO govt have already stolen everything from us East Malaysian - our land, our natural resources, our rights; and now they even want to “ROB” us of our rights on how to call our God!

So much for Najib’s 1Malaysia, just hollow slogans. For whom 1Malaysia? Only for the Malays? I’ve lost my hope on Malaysia. Maybe it’s time for us to move on ……

Salam to all.