The Judiciary Branch must be independent from the Executive Branch of the Government. Even though Nazri holds a portfolio as the de facto Law Minister, he is not supposed to interfere in the court ruling unless the court ruling has already been reversed by a higher court.

If a de facto Law Minister does not know how to honour the concept of Separation of Powers among different branches of the Government, then he must resign immediately from his post as the de facto Law Minister due to incompetency and inapproriateness in his speech which contemptuosly challenges the court ruling! It is a big shame for a de facto Law Minister to act or speak in such a manner which is apparently having violation against the law!

AG’s Chamber has filed an application to the High Court and a stay order has been given by High Court Judge Datuk Lau Bee Lan on her previous ruling about “Allah” usage. The case is now pending for hearing by the Court of Appeal for the appeal filed by the Attorney General on behalf of Home Minister.

Arcbishop of Catholic Church, who has interest in this case, has agreed not to argue against the AG’s petition for a stay order for the sake of national interest.

I think the Catholic Churches of Malaysia should be well prepared to accept the verdict that may be made by the Court of Appeal to the disadvantages of the Catholic Churches as the Court of Appeal may reverse the high court judgement that has been dropped by Judge Lau Bee Lan on the “Allah” usage issue.

One must always remember that when the easy access to “Allah” has been shut off by a court decision, there will always be another easy access which God will open up for His followers. If the Catholics think that “Tuhan” is not the best alternative to “Allah”, then some other word such as “Jehovah” or “Maha Besar” may be adopted in place of “Allah”. The God followers should realize that when God decides to shut one door, He will always be ready to open another door for access by His followers.

I believe there will always be some Catholics who will understand that God’s purpose is not for them to insist that they must be given a must-win situation all the time. When God has told His followers to cultivate the moral value of “perserverence” and “long-suffering” in the bible, He is indeed giving a huge mission for His followers to proclaim that “God loves everyone, including the enemy of God’s followers!” And I think the idea of “requiring one to love his/her enemy in God’s love” is always the best invaluable message that has been preached to the world by Jesus!

May we love our enemies too and begin to pray for their repentance and pray that they will turn to believe God even if we have been wronged by our enemies!

A Chinese Malaysian scholar who specializes in the research on the Islamic Development in Malaysia attributed the cause of the present religious intolerance towards the use of “Allah” word by non-muslims to the reason of prevalence of Islamic Conservatism since Dr. Mahathir took over the reign as the Prime Minister of Malaysia in 1981. However, the adoption of the term “Islamic Conservatism” can be arguable. While we may see on one side those so-called “Islamic Conservatists” may insist that the word “Allah” shall not be used by non-muslims for worship purpose, on the other side we see not much of religious substances which can be proclaimed and uttered from the mouth of the so-called “Islamic conservatists”.

Most often, we see that those so-called “Islamic Conservatists” in Umno strive hard to protect their female family members from being attacked by other muslims for not wearing a head scarf (tedung), citing the ambiguous argument that Malaysians are unlike Arabians whom have strong sexual desire which can be easily stimulated by the hair of a female therefore Malaysians females do not have to wear a head scarf in order to avoid causing sin on the sexually strong males.

One prominent “Islamic Conservatist” who was at one time the top politician of Malaysia used to tell the Special Branch police that he could tolerate a man having fornication with a woman but he could never tolerate a man having homosexual activity with another man. Hence we found the Special Branch Police were keen to get someone convicted in a legal court with sodomy charge by using some mischievous evidences for prosecution! And hence we were able to see extra-marital sexual activities happening so often and so openly among the cabinet ministers due to the endorsement by the No. 1 man in this “Islamic Conservative” political regime.

Perhaps it is time now for Allah to take charge and intervene in order to get rid of the psedo-Islamic racism which has been disguised in the name of “Islamic Conservatism” from the earth of Malaysia. The political regime of the psedo-Islamic racism which is headed by Umno should be overthrown by the Rakyat by the coming of next General Election.

chengho,
Perhaps you should get a copy of Mitch’s Albom’s book which is titled HAVE A LITTLE FAITH.

That’s what this book does. It really opens your mind to the bigger picture of faith. The question Albom asks is: “what if faith wasn’t what divided us, but what brought us together?” In a world where SOOO many wars are started in the name of religion and holier-than-thou attitudes prevail amongst so many different groups, it seems like all of our problems would be solved if only we could just say, “Hey, I have faith, you have faith…however we get there doesn’t matter. What matters is that we both BELIEVE.” Doing good for others is sometimes the greatest way to experience pure joy. If we all gave a little more of ourselves unselfishly, I do believe that peace would prevail.

My question to you is, do you think that its that simple? Do you think we’ll ever be able to overcome our differences and come together in the name of pure faith? I truly believe we can. But we need to set aside our self-righteousness and anger and come together for the common good, not only of ourselves, but of all mankind.

This book is REALLY a good read.