Pig heads were found thrown into the compound of 2 mosque ini Jalan Klang Lama yesterday. The pig heads were found in the proximity of Masjid Jumhuriyah, Taman Datuk Harun at Petaling Jaya and Masjid Al-Imam Al-Tirmizi, Taman Seri Sentosa, Jalan Klang Lama, Selangor.

It is no secret that pigs and dogs are considered very unclean in Islam. Mosque on the other hand is undoubtly the most holy a place can be for a Muslim. But what happened when the most unholy is purposely placed to desecrate what is most holy? An epitome of insult that wil hurt all creed of Muslims? One can only assumes a dire consequence will follow suit.

Idiots and morons engulfed with such hatred towards Islam will find this act as most effective that will most definitely guarantee success to stir religious tension.

Muslims must remain with cool head, to retaliate would only escalate the already serious matter. All Malaysian must stay united, collectively protest without causing further tension and must follow how Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. reacted on similar situation.

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When the Prophet migrated to Medina he built the first mosque known as Masjid al-Nabi (Mosque of the Prophet), considered to be the second most sacred mosque in Islam.

One day the Prophet was sitting in the mosque along with his companions. A Bedouin entered the mosque and started urinating. The Companions rushed to catch him and give him a good beating. But the Prophet did not allow them to do so. After the Bedouin had urinated, he asked his companions to bring a bucket of water and wash the place. Afterwards the Prophet called the man and with gentleness and affection explained to him that this was a place of worship and that it should be kept clean. It is told that after seeing such kindness, the said Bedouin had eventually embraced Islam.

RELATED WORLD AND LOCAL EVENTS HOW PIG HEADS ARE USED TO STIR TENSION INTO MUSLIM POPULATION

Imam Nuh Iman, right, with Hussein Ahmed, showed where a pig head rolled into his mosque in Lewiston, Maine, USA, 3 July 2006. The culprit, Brent Matthews, 34, later committed suicide after been arrested and charged with desecrating a place of worship.

A four-year-old girl found a severed pig's head bearing a slur against Muslims on the front steps of her family's home in Ottawa, Canada

34-year-old Shimon Ben-Chaim, and his 31-year-old wife Victoria Shteinman, a Tel Aviv couple, were arrested and charged with desecrating a holy site, incitement, mutiny, insulting religious feelings, planning to commit a crime and illegal assembly after they threw a pigs head into the Hassan Bek mosque in Jaffa August 2005.

Pig head in University Malaya's surau January 2009

Slightly unrelated, but no less offending. Do recently unfolded events interrelated with each others thus justifying the call for Royal Commission?

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Allah is the standard Arabic word for God. While the term is best known in the West for its use by Muslims as a reference to God, it is used by Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, in reference to “God”. The term was also used by pagan Meccans as a reference to the creator-god, possibly the supreme deity in pre-Islamic Arabia.

The concepts associated with the term Allah (as a deity) differ among the traditions. In pre-Islamic Arabia amongst pagan Arabs, Allah was not considered the sole divinity, having associates and companions, sons and daughters – a concept which Islam thoroughly and resolutely abrogated. In Islam, the name Allah is the supreme and all comprehensive divine name. All other divine names are believed to refer back to Allah. Allah is unique, the only Deity, creator of the universe and omnipotent. Arab Christians today use terms such as Allah al-’Ab (“God the Father”) to distinguish their usage from Muslim usage. There are both similarities and differences between the concept of God as portrayed in the Qur’an and the Hebrew Bible.

It is true the name Allah predates Islam? The popular view is that Islam is exclusively associated with the revelation of Prophet Muhammad SAW roughly 1431 years ago. Among the core teaching of Prophet Muhammad PBUH however involved believing Islam as the continuation to the religion of Isa PBUH (Jesus), Musa PBUH (Moses), Ibrahim PBUH (Abraham), and going all the way back to Adam PBUH, the first human on earth. As Islam views it, to say something predates Islam would literally means to predate all humanity.

In relation to the usage of the word Allah in Malaysia Roman Catholic publication, it is very important to get the facts straight.

1. Regionally, Christianity had only flourished in Borneo long after Islam has established itself, with Christian missionaries actively converting pagan tribes in Sabah and Sarawak during the Rajah Brooke era.

2. The calling of god as Allah in local Christian teachings got nothing to do with Arabia pagan god, the Christian term for god was purposely localized to imitate the name of existing native god, the god of the majority, which is the god of Muslims. Furthermore not one Orthodox Coptic Arab Christian Missionary ever laid foot on Malaysia soil to justify calling god as Allah. All missionaries were from England and other European countries.

To be technical one can says the name Allah predates Prophet Muhammad PBUH, but at the same time, the same name was also non existence in any Roman Catholic Bibles produced in the country(s) where all the Christian missionaries had came from. The local Muslims reservation on this issue is not entirely baseless.

It is important to know exactly where both side stand on this matter. Its common for Muslims to back the Islam side, and Christians backing the Roman Catholic side. However, to have another large group of Muslim unopposing the Christian view on this matter is something worth sinking our mind into.

According to Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, the spiritual leader for Parti Islam Malaysia (PAS) cum Chief Minister to the state of Kelantan, a key figure in the opposition coalition, Islam is a blessing to the universe, that translates into Islam is for all (Arabic; “Rahmatan Lil-Aalamin”). The one god in Islam is also the universal god of all religions. Other religion should be welcomed to call their god by Islam name.

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