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http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/whos-to-blame-for-zahid-hamidi
Who’s to blame for Zahid Hamidi?
Published: 18 August 2013
If you are offended by the noise coming out of Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's mouth, don't be. He has always had the IQ of room temperature.
And only the luck of being born into a political party that values bombast more than it does integrity, intelligence and common sense has allowed him to climb up the political ladder.
In any other political system, a man who could not answer how he amassed so much wealth when challenged by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1998 would have become a footnote. But this happened in Umno, where having a couple of question marks next to your name is a badge of honour.
Yesterday, the Home Minister gleefully announced that a Singaporean resort owner had his Malaysian permanent residence stripped for allowing a surau to be used by a Buddhist group for meditation.
Instead of accepting that the man made a genuine mistake and only deserved a reprimand, Ahmad Zahid (pic) chose the worst form of retribution - the type politicians dish out for political points.
As International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies Prof Dr Mohamad Hashim Kamal told The Star, Islam never prohibits followers of other religions to use a mosque to perform their prayers. This man of letters noted that when a Christian delegation visited Prophet Muhammad in Medina, the Prophet offered them the use of the mosque for their prayers.
But this is Malaysia, truly unique, truly intolerant.
A few minutes after announcing the punishment for the Singaporean, Ahmad Zahid then usurped the role of the court on another isuue as he declared that non-Muslims must respect the rights of Muslims and stop using the word Allah.
"The use of the word Allah is exclusive to Muslims. Full stop," he said. Never mind that the case is before the Court of Appeal.
But Ahmad Zahid should not worry. Unlike the Umno goons and bloggers who demanded that the Vatican envoy apologise when the diplomat showed solidarity with Malaysia's Christians on the Allah issue, Christians and other reasonable Malaysians will not be frothing at the mouth and demanding any apology from the minister.
If anyone should take the blame for this nonsense, it is the two men who raised Ahmad Zahid's profile to what it is today. So if what Zahid says stings your ears, (blame) Tun Abdullah Badawi and Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
It was Abdullah who brought Ahmad Zahid back from political oblivion in 2004, appointing him a deputy minister.
Zahid had become a peripheral figure in the party after the sacking of his political godfather, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in 1998. But Abdullah felt that Zahid had been rehabilitated and could provide some warlord cover if things became a bit tough during his term as prime minister. Following the 2008 polls, Ahmad Zahid was made Minister in the Prime Minister's Department.
Abdullah and Ahmad Zahid still remain close and the minister was a guest at the former prime minister's Hari Raya open house yesterday. But Abdullah's selection of Ahmad Zahid as a minister is a constant reminder of his greatest failing as a PM - the blind spot for Umno.
Since the launch of a book titled Awakening: The Abdullah Badawi Years In Malaysia, there has been some nostalgia for the Abdullah years with some of his more staunch supporters suggesting that he could perhaps play a role of a statesman in our fractured country.
He can't play that role. He cannot because he is an Umno man, through and through. He put Umno before anything else, even Malaysia - every time. Ahmad Zahid did not become a pompous, obtuse man just yesterday. He has been like this forever but he was rewarded by Abdullah and Najib.
Najib appointed him as Defence Minister in 2009. A year later, Ahmad Zahid was alleged to have beat up his daughter's boyfriend so badly that the man had to be hospitalised.
The police took no action but the victim filed a civil suit and the matter is pending.
That case did not have any bearing on Najib. He appointed Zahid to the powerful Home Ministry, overseeing the police, immigration and several other important government agencies.
Why? Loyalty.
Just like Abdullah in 2004, Najib also needs someone to protect his flank. He needs a fighter, a shouter, an orator. So what if his man insults large segments of Malaysians everytime he opens his mouth? So what if he makes a mockery of Malaysia's claim to be a moderate and tolerant country?
Fact is Abdullah Badawi and Najib Razak couldn't give a toss what Malaysians want or deserve. Their only consideration was and remains protecting their flanks from attacks and what Umno wants.
That is why Ahmad Zahid is holding court on all sorts of issues. Who could blame him, though? He is an opportunist.
Blame Abdullah and Najib for foisting their bodyguard on Malaysia. - August 18, 2013.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/24/world/asia/malaysia-allah-ban/
CNN) -- Malaysia's highest court has rejected a challenge from the Catholic Church seeking to overturn a ban on non-Muslims using the word "Allah" to refer to God.
But after the Federal Court announced its verdict on Monday, the government released a statement saying that the ruling would only apply to the Church's newspaper, which has been at the center of the court battle since Malaysian authorities ordered the publication to cease using the Arabic word in 2007.
Malaysian Christians will still be able to use the word "Allah" in church, the government's statement said.
"Malaysia is a multi-faith country and it is important that we manage our differences peacefully, in accordance with the rule of law and through dialogue, mutual respect and compromise," the statement said.
Malaysian court rules on 'Allah' use
Confusion
The conflicting interpretations of the ban have only added confusion to a debate that has inflamed religious tensions in the Muslim-majority country in recent years.
The editor of the the newspaper, the Herald, said it remains unclear what the implications of the court's verdict would be for the Christian community.
"We are in limbo," Father Lawrence Andrew told CNN.
But the chairman of the Christian Federation of Malaysia, Reverend Eu Hong Seng, said in a statement that Christians will continue to use the word "Allah" in bibles and during church gatherings.
The dispute began in 2007 when the Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs, which grants publishing licenses, threatened to withdraw the Herald's permit for using the Arabic word in its Malay-language edition, on the grounds of national security and public order.
Malaysian authorities say non-Muslim literature that contains the word could confuse Muslims and cause them to convert away from Islam, which is a crime in many parts of the country.
Christian leaders argue that the word "Allah" predates Islam, and has long been used in Malay-language bibles and other texts to refer to God.
Anti-Christian violence
The dispute has sparked violence in recent years against Malaysia's Christian community, which accounts for around 9% of the country's population of 29 million, while more than 60% are Muslim.
We have a moral obligation to champion the cause of minorities. We have a responsibility to uphold religious freedom.
Father Lawrence Andrew, Herald editor
A series of fire bomb attacks were carried out on places of worship after a court ruled in 2009 that the Church had a constitutional right to refer to God as "Allah" in the Herald.
But an appeals court reinstated the ban in October 2013. Three months later, arsonists set fire to a church in Kuala Lumpur, and Islamic authorities confiscated hundreds of bibles containing the word "Allah" from a Christian organization in the state of Selangor.
On Monday, a panel of judges at the Federal Court in Putrajaya ruled 4 to 3 that the word was not an integral part of the Christian faith, upholding the decision of the appeals court.
Outside the building, hundreds of Muslim activists celebrated the verdict, shouting "Allahuakbar" (God is great).
"We thank Allah because the court's decision has favored us this time. We hope that this is no longer an issue in the peninsular, which does not allow others (to use) the term," the head of Perkasa, a conservative Muslim rights group, told reporters.
Father Andrew from the Herald said the Church was looking into ways to challenge the ban.
"We need to fight this case to end, because we have to fight for justice when justice is derided or denied," he said.
"We have a moral obligation to champion the cause of minorities. We have a responsibility to uphold religious freedom."
Politics
It's likely that the ban is politically motivated, according to William Case, a political scientist with the City University of Hong Kong's Department of Asian and International Studies.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak is a reformist to some extent, says Case, but his party failed to win a majority in the last election and he needs to recapture the support of the country's ethnic Malay, and mostly Muslim, community.
However, it's too soon to tell how the Malaysian government will implement the ban in practice, he says.
"This is the kind of ambiguity you would expect, because it's a very complex and tense set of circumstances. You might have the judiciary saying one thing, the cabinet saying another -- meanwhile pressure is mounting from the many Muslim groups involved who bring tremendous mass-based support, and on the other side from Christian groups."
The ruling may lead to further attacks on churches, Case warned.
"We do know that Malaysia has become more and more polarized in recent years on ethnic, and increasingly religious, grounds -- and that's becoming more and more severe."
But while the latest court ruling is distressing, Case says verbal threats against religious groups in Malaysia seldom translate into the kind of violence seen in neighboring countries, like Indonesia.
"We don't see extrajudicial killings, religious-inspired violence and abductions, and that distinguishes Malaysia in the region."
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