It is official! Christians in Malaysia are banned to use Allah, and possibly another 32 Malay words and terminology that has meaning or connection to the Al-Koran. This is a sad day for Malaysians especially the indigenous Christians in the 2 Borneo states. Tan Sri Bernard Dompok, the President of UPKO, one of the components ruling parties of BN who garnered only about 40 plus per cent of the total votes during the last GE13, but due to the re-delineation of the constituencies by the Election Commission, managed to return to power with very slim majority, most of which came from the Sabah and Sarawak. The result of the appeal will definitely affect BN's majority in the next election, he opined.
This issue was proceeded by the State Mufti's remark that Kadazan is an invented race and those natives who convert to Muslim must be categorized as Melayu. This also had created a storm of protest and had made the young and old generations alike of Sabahan Natives especially the Kadazans who were instrumental in getting Sabah to become independent and joined Malaysia.
Will this be the critical mass that had been referred by some theologians that is needed to get Sabah and Sarawak to wake up to the realities of social-political landscape of Malaysia and the gloomy economic conditions of the Nation as a result of high level of corruptions, bad governance and religious/racial fanatism that will explode and drive the 2 States away from Malaysia. It is interesting to notice how this seems to be building up from the grassroots, as we watch this video clip:
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