Originally posted by Ravenmann
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. I was interested in your comment. Muslims do not believe in God so can't "stop" believing in God. Obviously whatever they do believe in (which looks like the moon when they make an idol of it) could be given up but in some places calling it "God" is a punishable offence."Allah" and "God" are two different words which mean two different things.
JAN 2010 "Why are the Christians claiming Allah?" asks businessman Rahim Ismail, 47, his face contorted in rage and disbelief. He shakes his head and raises his voice while waiting for a taxi along Jalan Tun Razak, a main thoroughfare in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital. "Everybody in the world knows Allah is the Muslim God and belongs to Muslims. I cannot understand why the Christians want to claim Allah as their God," Rahim says as passersby, mostly Muslims, gather around and nod in agreement.
JUN 2014 Malaysia's highest court has rejected a challenge to the ban on Christians using the word "Allah" to refer to God, in a highly divisive legal case in the Muslim-majority nation.
NOV 2014 The government’s National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs deliberated on the issue of whether non-Muslims have the right to use the word Allah and issued a fatwa. “The conference decided that the word Allah is a sacred word specific only to the religion and followers of Islam and it cannot be used or made to be similar with religions other than Islam,” said the fatwa, which was posted on the government’s “e-fatwa” website.




, and then you will have the necessary mental framework to contribute meaningfully to this body of knowledge.
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