KUTUKAN ORANG ISLAM TERHADAP SAUDARA MALAYSIANYA DI HERALD

Salam,

Siapa penulis dalam Herald  Malaysian Online - sebuah makalah elektronik Kristian berpangkalan di Kuala Lumpur? Jawabnya ialah Sheila Musaji dan siapa pula beliau ini? Jawabnya ialah Ketua Editor TAM (The American Muslim). Lebih anih lagi ialah tulisan siapa pula yang dipromosikan di dalam makalah berkenaan untuk menunjukkan 'kemunduran fahaman Islam di Malaysia'? Jawabnya ialah salah seorang anak Malaysia yang juga editor TAM dan menjadi orang penting di sebuah Institut di Jerman yang mempromosikan budaya Jerman terhadap bangsa lain.

Tidak cukup dengan Sheila Musaji yang mengutuk pegangan sesetengah Muslim yang seolah-olah melihat bahawa akibat "perangai buruk" sang muslim ini yang menyebabkan seluruh dunia kritikal kepada Islam.  Dia tidak pula menyebut tentang bagaimana amalan agama lain yang sejak dahulu lagi menjahanamkan dunia ini .Soal bagaimana Kristianiti cuba mendominasi dunia Islam sehingga melakukan penjajahan demi penjajahan sampai ke Asia sejak zaman berzaman semuanya dilupakan. Sehingga sekarang ini beberapa kerat orang kaya Kristian dan Yahudi barat masih tetap mempunyai agenda untuk menguasai dunia dengan pelbagai cara. Mereka memporak perandakan ekonomi dunia dan mendapat keuntungan atas angin sehingga di barat sekarang ini heboh mengenai peruntukan US400B dikatakan dilarikan ke bank-bank Israel semasa krisis ekonomi Amerika hendak bermula.   

Apa yang Dr Farish A Nor  ini tuliskan? Tajuknya ialah "Do Malaysian Muslims understand what ‘Allah’ means?"

Cuba baca sedutannya:

"Yet in Malaysia at the moment yet another non-issue has been brewed to a

scandal for no reason: The Malaysian Catholic Herald, a publication by and

for Catholics in the country, has been told that it can no longer publish

its Malaysian language edition if it continues to use the word “Allah” to

mean God. Worse still, the country’s Deputy Internal Security Minister

Johari Baharum recently stated that “Only Muslims can use the word Allah”

ostensibly on the grounds that “Allah” is a Muslim word. The mind boggles at

the confounding logic of such a non-argument, which speaks volumes about the

individual’s own ignorance of Muslim culture, history and the fundamental

tenets of Islam itself.

For a start, the word ‘Allah’ predates the revelation to the Prophet

Muhammad and goes way back to the pre-Islamic era. Christians had been using

the word long before there were any Muslims, in fact. Furthermore the word

is Arabic, and is thus common to all the peoples, cultures and societies

where Arabic - in all its dialects - is spoken, and is understood by

millions of Arabic speakers to mean God, and little else. One could also add

that as “Allah” is an Arabic word it therefore has more to do with the

development and evolution of Arabic language and culture, and less to do

with Islam. It is hard to understand how any religion can have a language to

call its own, for languages emerge from a societal context and not a belief

system. If one were to abide by the skewered logic of the Minister

concerned, then presumably the language of Christianity (if it had one)

would be Aramaic, or perhaps Latin."

Kesimpulannya? Beliau memperlekeh Muslimin dan Muslimat di Malaysia yang dangkal agama. Beginilah "Melayu" makan "Melayu". Kalau tulis di dada akhbar Melayu Islam di Malaysia mengenai isu ini secara ikhlas tidak mengapa juga.  

(artikel sepenuhnya boleh didapati di pautan ini)

Mantan pensyarah Universiti Malaya ini menulis bahawa di Mesir melalui pengalamannya di sana pergaulan antara agama begitu mesra dan semua penganut bebas menggunakan istilah seperti subhanallah, Allah dan lain-lain tanpa prejudis. Banyak perbincangan dilihat dari sudut bahasa sahaja memandangkan beliau ini "Orang Bahasa". Beliau lebih menyentuh persoalan dari sudut bahasa dan budaya dan langsung tidak menyentuh persoalan Tauhid dan konsep tritini yang amat bertentangan itu.

Biodata ringkas mengenai Dr Farish adalah seperti berikut:

DR. FARISH AHMAD-NOOR is a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist. He has taught at the Centre for Inter-Civilizational Dialogue, University of Malaya; the Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie University of Berlin and the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Muslim World. He is currently working on the subject of the Indian Muslim diaspora in Southeast Asia. He has also been the Secretary-General of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST). Author of ‘Terrorizing the Truth: the Demonization of the Image of Islam and Muslims in Global Media and Political Discourse’ (JUST, 1997) he is also a regular columnist for a number of newspapers and magazines in Malaysia, Pakistan and Britain.