Kabinet buat keputusan kalimah Allah boleh dipakai di Sabah dan Sarawak...
Kalimah ‘Allah’ boleh digunakan oleh penganut Kristian di Sabah dan Sarawak dalam upacara ibadat mereka, termasuk di dalam kitab Bible versi Bahasa Melayu, kata seorang menteri Kabinet.
Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Joseph Kurup dipetik sebagai berkata Kabinet membuat keputusan itu dalam mesyuaratnya semalam.
Beliau berkata Kabinet memutuskan untuk berpegang kepada penyelesaian 10 perkara, yang membenarkan pengimportan dan pencetakan Bible dalam mana-mana bahasa di Malaysia, termasuk al-Kitab yang menggunakan kalimah ‘Allah’.
"Kabinet telah membincangkan keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan kerana isu ini menimbulkan rasa tidak puas hati dan kebimbangan di kalangan penganut Kristian di Sabah dan Sarawak.
"Mereka bimbang Bible Bahasa Melayu yang menggunakan kalimah ‘Alah’ akan diharamkan. Justeru Kabinet merasakan perlu ada penjelasan,” beliau dipetik oleh akhbar Sin Chew Jit Poh.
Kurup menambah Kabinet akan mengikuti kes berkenaan dengan teliti, disebabkan oleh tahap kebimbangan yang timbul di kalangan masyarakat.
Penyelesaian 10 perkara, antara lain juga menyatakan tidak ada halangan bagi penganut Kristian untuk membawa Bible dalam apa bahasa dari Sabah dan Sarawak ke Semenanjung.
Bagaimanapun, Bible dalam Bahasa Melayu atau Indonesia yang dibawa masuk atau dicetak di semenanjung mestilah dicetak dengan perkataan ‘Penerbitan Kristian’ pada muka hadapannya.
Mahkamah Rayuan pada Isnin lalu membatalkan keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi yang membenarkan penerbitan Katolik, The Herald menggunakan kalimah ‘Allah’ di dalam versi Bahasa Melayunya.
Keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi pada 31 Disember 2009 itu membawa kepada serangan ke atas tempat ibadat penganut Kristian dan Sikh.
The Herald akan merayu terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan itu di Mahkamah Persekutuan.
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Sabah, Sarawak Christians free to use 'Allah', says gov't...
The word 'Allah' can be used by Sabahan and Sarawakian Christians in
their worship, including in the Malay-language bible al-Kitab, the
government has said.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Joseph Kurup was reported by Sin Chew Daily as saying that this was decided by the cabinet in their meeting yesterday.
He said the cabinet decided to fall back on the 10-point solution, which allows for the importation into and printing of Bibles of any language in Malaysia, including al-Kitab which uses the word ‘Allah'.
"The
cabinet has discussed the Court of Appeal decision because this issue
has created much dissatisfaction and worry among Sabah and Sarawak
Christians.
"They are worried if the Malay-language Bible that uses the word 'Allah' will be banned. Therefore the cabinet feels there is a need to clarify," he was quoted by Sin Chew as saying.
He added that the cabinet will also follow the case closely, due to the level of concern it has raised among the public.
Among others, the 10-point solution also states that there is no prohibition on Christians from carrying Bibles of any language from Sabah and Sarawak into the peninsula.
However, Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Indonesia Bibles brought into or printed in the peninsula must have the words 'Christian Publication' and a cross printed on its front cover.
The Court of Appeal on Monday overturned a High Court decision which allowed Catholic publication The Herald to use the word 'Allah' in its Malay-language edition.
The High Court decision in Dec 31, 2009 led to scattered attacks against Christian and Sikh places of worship.
The Herald is appealing the Court of Appeal decision at the Federal Court.-malaysiakini
The cabinet’s decision to stand by its 10-point solution shows that the Home Ministry’s ban on The Herald from using the word ‘Allah’ was merely to score brownie points with Muslims and not to protect the sanctity of Islam, says DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.
“By permitting ‘Allah’ to be used in Sabah and Sarawak, this is a clear defensive electoral strategy designed to protect BN’s political interests there as there are fewer Malays and Muslims in both states.
“BN is not bothered about religious harmony or religious values. If they were concerned about religious values they would have taken steps to combat and punish corruption,” he said in a statement today.
He was responding to a statement by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Joseph Kurup, who reportedly said that the word ‘Allah’ can be used by Sabahan and Sarawakian Christians in their worship, including in the Malay-language Bible al-Kitab.
He said this is in accordance to the 10-point solution that allows the importation and printing of Bibles in any language, which includes the al-Kitab that uses the word ‘Allah’.
The decision follows a Court of Appeal ruling on Monday upholding the Home Ministry’s ban and overturning a 2009 High Court ruling that the ban is unconstitutional.
Lim said by allowing Christians in Sabah and Sarawak to use the word ‘Allah’ but not those in peninsula Malaysia, the only conclusion that can be made is that “BN is destroying religious harmony in Malaysia by irresponsibly and deviously exploiting Islam for selfish political gain by allowing the word ‘Allah’.” -malaysiakini
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Joseph Kurup was reported by Sin Chew Daily as saying that this was decided by the cabinet in their meeting yesterday.
He said the cabinet decided to fall back on the 10-point solution, which allows for the importation into and printing of Bibles of any language in Malaysia, including al-Kitab which uses the word ‘Allah'.
"The
cabinet has discussed the Court of Appeal decision because this issue
has created much dissatisfaction and worry among Sabah and Sarawak
Christians."They are worried if the Malay-language Bible that uses the word 'Allah' will be banned. Therefore the cabinet feels there is a need to clarify," he was quoted by Sin Chew as saying.
He added that the cabinet will also follow the case closely, due to the level of concern it has raised among the public.
Among others, the 10-point solution also states that there is no prohibition on Christians from carrying Bibles of any language from Sabah and Sarawak into the peninsula.
However, Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Indonesia Bibles brought into or printed in the peninsula must have the words 'Christian Publication' and a cross printed on its front cover.
The Court of Appeal on Monday overturned a High Court decision which allowed Catholic publication The Herald to use the word 'Allah' in its Malay-language edition.
The High Court decision in Dec 31, 2009 led to scattered attacks against Christian and Sikh places of worship.
The Herald is appealing the Court of Appeal decision at the Federal Court.-malaysiakini
Guan Eng: Ban was merely to score brownie points...
The cabinet’s decision to stand by its 10-point solution shows that the Home Ministry’s ban on The Herald from using the word ‘Allah’ was merely to score brownie points with Muslims and not to protect the sanctity of Islam, says DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.
“By permitting ‘Allah’ to be used in Sabah and Sarawak, this is a clear defensive electoral strategy designed to protect BN’s political interests there as there are fewer Malays and Muslims in both states.
“BN is not bothered about religious harmony or religious values. If they were concerned about religious values they would have taken steps to combat and punish corruption,” he said in a statement today.
He was responding to a statement by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Joseph Kurup, who reportedly said that the word ‘Allah’ can be used by Sabahan and Sarawakian Christians in their worship, including in the Malay-language Bible al-Kitab.
He said this is in accordance to the 10-point solution that allows the importation and printing of Bibles in any language, which includes the al-Kitab that uses the word ‘Allah’.
The decision follows a Court of Appeal ruling on Monday upholding the Home Ministry’s ban and overturning a 2009 High Court ruling that the ban is unconstitutional.
Lim said by allowing Christians in Sabah and Sarawak to use the word ‘Allah’ but not those in peninsula Malaysia, the only conclusion that can be made is that “BN is destroying religious harmony in Malaysia by irresponsibly and deviously exploiting Islam for selfish political gain by allowing the word ‘Allah’.” -malaysiakini
Church's lawyer: Judgment goes beyond The Herald...
The government cannot simply decide that Sabah and Sarawak Christians are allowed to use the word 'Allah', since the Court of Appeal' has ruled that there is no basis for such use, a lawyer for the archbishop said today.
Annou Xavier (left),
the counsel for Catholic Archbishop Murphy Pakiam on the matter, said
this was evident in Justice Mohamed Apandi Ali's judgment that the word
is "not integral" to the Christian faith.“The Court of Appeal did not deal with The Herald or the Printing Presses and Publications Act, but was a very wide judgment that goes beyond The Herald.
“In his judgment, Justice Apandi said his ‘quick research’ found that the word 'Allah' is not part of the faith and practices of Christianity.
“So it is not for (ministers) Joseph Kurup or Wan Junaidi (Tuanku Jaafar) to say, 'It's okay, because that is the peninsula and has nothing to do with Sabah and Sarawak, or that this is The Herald and not about the al-Kitab,” Annou told Malaysiakini.
He also stressed that Justice Apandi headed the three-member bench, which delivered the unanimous decision on Monday.
He was responding to Kurup, a minister in the Prime Minister's Department who said the cabinet had decided that Sabah and Sarawak Christians can use the word 'Allah', and that the 10-point solution on the Malay language Bible al-Kitab stands.
In his judgment, Justice Apandi said: “In the Bible, God has always been known as ‘Yahweh’. That being the historical fact, it can be concluded the word ‘Allah’ is not an integral part of the faith and Christian practice, in particular that of the Roman Catholic Church.”
Muslim lawyers disagree
Disagreeing with Annou, Muslim Lawyers' Association of Malaysia (PPMM) president Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar said the judgment only referred to The Herald and was not a blanket ban of the use of the word 'Allah' by non-Muslims.
Zainul Rijal said the case was constrained to whether the home minister had acted legally when he prohibited the use of the word 'Allah' by The Herald.
As such, Zainul Rijal (left) said, when the bench found that the minister did not act illegally, it “simply means that the archbishop was prohibited from using the word ‘Allah’ in The Herald – The Catholic Weekly”.
“PPMM is of the view that the decision goes as far as prohibiting the archbishop from using the word 'Allah' in The Herald - the Catholic Weekly, a publication, and nothing beyond that,” he said.-malaysiakini
1Malaysia,two interpretations of Allah–it’s awkward...
“Why do we have one country with two interpretations of the use of the word Allah?” Sarawak Land Development Minister Tan Sri Dr James Masing (pic) asked this when commenting on the Cabinet decision yesterday that the Court of Appeal ruling, which banned the word Allah in the Catholic weekly, Herald, does not apply to Sabah and Sarawak.
“I'm not comfortable with this interpretation. The assurance by the Cabinet that Sabah and Sarawak can use the word Allah in the Bahasa Malaysia or native language bibles, and other religious publications and in worship, but not in West Malaysia, is not satisfactory,”
Masing told The Malaysian Insider, adding that he still thinks that the court ruling is faulty. “It means one nation with two religious definitions of what is acceptable. I feel awkward."
Masing, who is the president of Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), also said the assurance given by the Cabinet “looks like political expediency” and would create more problems than it would solve.
“OK in Sabah and Sarawak, but not OK in the peninsula. How am I going to pray if I am in the peninsula?” he asked. -TMI
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