The High Court’s Appellate and Special Powers Division has fixed November 21 2008 to hear all the intervention cases made by various parties to intervene in the suit over the word “Allah”.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur objects to the various, mostly Islamic religious councils’ in intervening in the suit namely for the states of Penang, Trengganu, Perak, FT, Selangor and Kedah. Yesterday, the Johor Islamic Religious Council also filed an application to intervene.
The Perak Religious and Malay Customs withdrew its application and would file a fresh one before the hearing date. I am hopeful that the fresh application will be comprehensive to intervene in this suit and as well as the other civil suit filed by the Archbishop.
So it was as reported in the Star a couple of days ago.
It does appear that the Archbishop seems to pay little heed to the pronouncement of the Royalty not to aggravate religious issues sensitive to the tranquility of the masses. In my recent discussion on the matter with fellow Muslims, I found more of them to be fully aware and concern about these developments to date. Thus if need be, I sure the majority of them would voice out their anger and frustration if the matter is not resolved by the authorities, what more if the matter were to be brought out to the Muslims in their Friday congregations.
The mater at hand was in relation to the imposed conditions on the prohibition of the word Allah in The Herald, a Catholic weekly publication. The Archbishop has also filed another civil suit seeking, amongst others, to declare that the word “Allah” is not exclusive to the religion of Islam, thus expanding the spectrum of the argument. I just hope the Archbishop will not rope in foreign interference into a local issue.
We wait and see and hopeful that the Archbishop will come to his senses for the sake of peace and tranquility.
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