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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9c54b669-50b2-4446-ac1b-756b85d59ac1/FDAE296D-6F93-48FA-B122-39BD434A5719/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/copyright_allah.html" href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/copyright_allah.html" style="font-size: 11px;">commentisfree.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/copyright_allah.html"><P class="standfirst">The Malaysian government has banned non-Muslims from using the word 'Allah'. It is a sign that political Islam has got out of hand - and time for a pluralist response</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/copyright_allah.html"><H2><A href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/profile.html">Ali Eteraz</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/copyright_allah.html"><P>I <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7163391.stm">just read</A> that a Catholic newspaper in Malaysia is not being allowed to refer to God as "Allah" as it has always done. I guess the government thinks that Muslims have a monopoly over the word.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/copyright_allah.html"><P>The Church has, quite appropriately, sued the government for this absurd pronouncement, arguing that the word "Allah" is merely an Arabic word for God, which <A href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brian_whitaker/2007/01/allah_versus_god.html">has been used by members of many faiths</A>, long before Islam was even founded.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/copyright_allah.html">This is yet another instance (do they ever stop?) where Islam is being used by conniving leaders to advance political agendas. Leaders in Malaysia promote supremacist, dominionist versions of Islam, because it makes political sense for them to do so.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FDAE296D-6F93-48FA-B122-39BD434A5719/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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