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Metatron from the Greek after and throne taken together as "one who serves behind the throne" or "one who occupies the throne next to the throne of glory" and yes it is a real word.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Only Muslims Can Use The Word 'Allah' To Refer To God, Malaysian Court Rules


Only Muslims Can Use The Word 'Allah' To Refer To God, Malaysian Court Rules

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A Malaysian appeal court has ruled that non-Muslims may not use the word “Allah” to refer to God.
The decision overturns a 2009 lower court ruling, which sparked religious tensions and led to attacks on churches and mosques.
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Muslim protestors during a demonstration against The Herald newspaper using the word 'Allah'
The paper sued, with the courts ruling in its favour in December 2009. The government followed with an appeal, which was unanimously upheld on Monday.
Justice Mohamed Apandi, one of a panel of three judges read a brief summary,reported by Malaysia’s The Star.
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"Our common finding is that the usage of Allah is not an integral part of the Christian faith. We cannot find why the parties are so adamant on the usage of the word," he said.
The full text of the judgement can be read here, on the Malaysian Insider.
In its reasons for launching the action, the Malaysian government claimed the use of the word “Allah” should be exclusively reserved for Muslims owing to concerns its use by other faiths could confuse Muslims and be used to convert them.
The Jakarta Post points out Malaysia’s Christian, Buddhist and Hindu minorities have often complained the government infringes their constitutional rights to practice religion freely.
It adds that Roman Catholic representatives say the ban is unreasonable because Christians who speak Malay have used “Allah” in their bibles, literature and songs, long before authorities sought to curb it.
Reverend Lawrence Andrew, the editor of The Herald, said he was “disappointed and dismayed” at the ruling and that he would appeal the decision.
He added: “It is a retrograde step in the development of law in relation to the fundamental liberty of religious minorities.”




http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/14/muslims-word-allah-god-malaysian-court-rules_n_4095676.html
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Monday, January 6, 2014

Syria explained: How it became a religious war By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor

(CNN) - How did Syria go from an internal uprising to a wider clash drawing funding and fighters from across the region?

In a word, Middle East experts say, religion.

Shiite Muslims from Lebanon, Iraq and Iran have flooded into Syria to defend sacred sites and President Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime. Sunni Muslims, some affiliated with al Qaeda, have rushed in to join rebels, most of whom are Sunni.

Both sides use religious rhetoric as a rallying cry, calling each other "infidels" and "Satan's army."

"That is why it has become so muddy," said professor Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. "The theological question has returned to the center."

That's not to say that the warring parties are fighting over, say, the definition of God.

But the United Nations, in a series of reports, has warned with mounting urgency that the battle lines in Syria are being drawn along sectarian - that is, religious - lines. Both sides fear that whoever wins power will wipe out the loser.

"The conflict has become increasingly sectarian, with the conduct of the parties becoming significantly more radicalized and militarized," the UN said earlier this year.

And that's a really bad thing, foreign policy experts say.

Religious civil wars are longer and bloodier than other types of clashes, according to studies. They are also twice as likely to recur and twice as deadly to noncombatants.

"People hold onto religious fights longer than battles over land and water," said Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, an expert on foreign policy at Georgetown University and a 10-year veteran of the U.S. State Department. "It becomes existential and related to belief in a higher calling."

Some combatants in Syria appear to believe that fighting in the name of God justifies the most barbaric measures.

Remember that video of a rebel eating the heart of a Syrian soldier while shouting "God is great!"? Or the other video showing the beheading of three men with butcher knives, also while praising God?

According to international reports and U.S. intelligence, Assad's regime has been just as brutal, killing at least 100,000 citizens, including hundreds in a sarin gas attack on Aug. 21.

As Congress holds hearings to determine a response to that attack, Middle East experts say it's imperative to understand the major religious players in Syria, and why they are fighting.

The stakes couldn't be higher, experts say.

"If we come and and give one group a total win, we may be setting up an ethnic cleansing," Landis said.

The situation is Syria is fairly fluid, with lots of conflicting reports and shifting alliances, but here is our breakdown of the religious groups at war and a bit of background on their beliefs.

Alawites

This small, secretive sect makes up just 12% of the Syrian population, but members have held prominent seats of power since the 1970s. Why? Because the ruling Assad family is Alawi.

Alawites consider themselves Muslims, but most mainstream Muslims call them heretics. Among the reasons: They believe that Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, is divine.

They've been ostracized almost since their 9th-century founding, so they keep many of their core beliefs secret. During the Ottoman Empire, they were not allowed to testify in court, Landis said.

"It was assumed they would lie, because the God they professed was man-made," he said.

In the 1970s, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, built a brutal security force with fellow Alawites. They were the fingers of his iron fist.

Despite that, many Alawites initially joined the uprising against Bashar al-Assad, calling for greater freedom and government transparency.

As the conflict progressed, however, Sunni rebels targeted Alawite communities, pushing them back into Assad's arms.

To give you some sense of how some Syrian Sunnis feel about Alawites, here's what Adnan Anour, a cleric who fled to Saudi Arabia, has said: "As for those Alawites who violate what is sacred, when the Muslims rule and are the majority of 85%, we will chop you up and feed you to the dogs."

Shiites

In May it appeared the rebels had the momentum and Assad's fall was just days away. Then Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, announced that it was joining the fray, and backing Assad.

Within weeks, this fierce group, led by Hassan Nasrallah, had managed to wrestle key cities from rebel control, turning the war's tide.

There aren't many Shiites in Syria, but the Assads courted them from neighboring Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, allowing them to build major shrines to the faith's founders in Syrian cities.

The strategy seems to have worked.

When Sunni rebels attacked those shrines, Shiites rushed in to defend them. Not that Sunnis and Shiites need many excuses to fight. They've been battling since the earliest days of Islam and continue to clash in Iraq and other countries.

Nasrallah harkened back to those early clashes when Hezbollah entered the fray, calling the Syrian Sunni rebels "murderers of Hussein."

Hussein ibn Ali was the Prophet Muhammad's grandson who refused to pledge allegiance to the ruling Muslim caliph in the 7th century. Shiites believe that he and his family were the rightful rulers of the Muslim community.

Sunnis

Sunni Muslims are by far the biggest Muslim sect, in the world and in Syria. It's estimated that Sunnis make up 75% of Syria's population of 22 million. But they've long been sidelined by the Assads.

It's little surprise, then, that most of the Free Syrian Army, the largest rebel group, is Sunni.

Within the Sunni coalition, there are remnants of the Muslim Brotherhood, who were brutally suppressed by the Assads; Salafists, who believe in a purified Islam based on its earliest days; and more secular-minded Sunnis.

In recent months they've been joined - sometimes to their consternation - by fighters from al Qaeda-linked groups. Always eager to fight Shiites and sow discord, these jihadists are every bit as fierce and battle-tested as Hezbollah, their sworn enemy.

It's unclear, however, how al Qaeda itself is involved in Syria.

The Iraqi-branch commander reportedly overstepped his authority in June byannouncing a merger with Syria's al-Nusra Front, earning a smackdown from Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's global leader.

At the same time, some Syrian fighters say they pretend to be al-Qaeda just to annoy the Assad regime.

Still, prominent Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi has called on all Sunnis to join the fight against the Shiites and Hezbollah, calling them Hizb al-Shaytan, the “Party of the Devil”

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are backing that call with their wallets, according to international reports, hoping to prevent Shiites from gaining a stronghold in the region.

Christians

Christians, who form about 10 percent of the Syrian population, are essentially middle men in this civil war, caught between Assad's army and the Sunni rebels.

Under Assad, Christians had more rights than in many Middle Eastern countries, with the freedom to worship and run schools and churches. Their rights were limited however. The Syrian constitution says the president must be Muslim, for example.

According to UN reports, rebel fighters have targeted Christian communities, shooting up factories and detonating car bombs in Christian neighborhoods.

In addition, many Christians - in Syria and in the United States - fear the fate of Christians should Sunni fundamentalists take power in Syria.

They, like the Alawites, have been pushed back into Assad's arms.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, perhaps with an eye towards a presidential run in 2016, is among the latest to express concern for Syria's Christians.

"I think the Islamic rebels winning is a bad idea for the Christians," Paul said on NBC's "Meet the Press," on Sunday. "All of a sudden we'll have another Islamic state where Christians are persecuted."



Daniel Burke - CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
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Sunday, January 5, 2014

Non Muslim Children forced to Eat lunch in Toilet !

A principal of a secondary school in the state of Kedah told students "return to China" or eat lunch in toilet !



Return to China what after 700 - 1,000 plus years and I expect Indians to be there for about the same time.

Chinese and Indians children are treated as second class in schools 

And this is from Muslim Malay that would have come from Indonesia at some point in the past!  Muslim malay are not native to Malaya they came from Indonesia just look at the languages and racial characteristics  


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Pictures depicting non-Muslim primary school students forced to eat their recess meals in a toilet due to the ongoing Ramadan fasting month has Malaysians up in arms on the Internet.

Posted by a mother by the name of Guneswari Kelly on social network Facebook, the photographs appear to show several non-Muslim children and even adults at a school named as SRK Sri Pristana in Sungai Buloh taking their recess in the lavatory even as the school canteen went unoccupied.





According to her, the children were directed not to use the canteen — shown cordoned off in the pictures — as they would “dirty” the area. Instead, they were told to go to the school’s changing rooms and lavatories, and ordered to stay there for the duration of their recess.

“Is this fair? Can school treat like this. No food serve n no canteen. That bathroom is full of bacteria n smell becoz its a bathroom n next door toilet with the horrible smell,” Guneswari wrote in the post.

“Is it fair for a sekolah kebangsaan sri pristana treatment our non Muslim children like this during puasa month?”

Calls to the school for comment went unanswered.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/on-facebook-students-shown-eating-in-school-toilet#sthash.cqkjfyHq.dpuf

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Non-Muslim pupils forced to eat in bathroom because of Ramadan

The act of segregation is condemned by politicians and Muslims. Our "religion does not dictate this," Muslim woman says. However, in many Islamic countries, non-Muslims are required to respect the eating ban during the period of fasting.

Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Non-Muslim children in a Malaysian primary school were forced to have lunch in the facility's change room whilst their classmates fasted during Ramadan. Pictures of ethnic Chinese and Indian (usually Christian or Hindu) children were posted on the internet by one of the mothers, Guneswari Kelly, causing an uproar among politicians and Muslims opposed to unhygienic segregation.

On her Facebook page, Kelly Guneswari wrote that staff at the Sri Pristana School, in suburban Kuala Lumpur, told non-Muslim children to eat in the school's bathroom and not in the canteen. "Is this fair? Can [a national school] treat [non-Muslim pupils] like this" during Ramadan?

After being informed, Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin ordered an investigation into the matter, saying he would take action.

School officials have not released any statement, but Jehan Bakar, a Muslim woman lawyer and mother of two, said she was "horrified" by the segregation of non-Muslim children. Our "religion does not dictate this," she insisted.

In fact Islam does not ask non-Muslims to fast or hide, but in many Islamic countries, Christians, Hindus or people of other religions are asked (and sometimes forced) not to eat in public or are not allow to eat at all during the fasting period, which runs from dawn to dusk.

In Malaysia, there are often signs of impatience towards Islamic rules that are often applied in a very restrictive way. Recently, a Chinese couple was accused of sedition for posting online a Ramadan greeting that showed them eating pork, which is forbidden in Islam.

In 2010, the principal of a secondary school in the state of Kedah accused ethnic Chinese students of being insensitive towards their Muslim classmates because they ate at school during Ramadan, telling them to "return to China" if they could not respect the culture of other ethnic groups.


http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Non-Muslim-pupils-forced-to-eat-in-bathroom-because-of-Ramadan-28561.html

"It is sad when the Malays try to monopolise the religion and try to make it reign 'supreme'. Segregating non-Muslim children's eating quarters from the fasting Muslim students will only help to keep them away from the real world."
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

This is the book they used to kill a child! (To Train Up a Child) Beating and starving daughter to death in accord with Biblical based parenting techniques.


Christian homeschoolers receive maximum jail time for death of child



I have never seen a book get so much hate mail as this one called see it on Amazon 

To Train Up a Child


Beating and starving their adopted daughter to death in accord with Biblical based parenting techniques.




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November 3, 2013

In Washington state a Christian homeschooling couple received maximum prison sentences allowable under the law after being found guilty of beating and starving their adopted daughter to death in accord with Biblical based parenting techniques.
Superior Court Judge Susan Cook showed no mercy to Larry and Carri Williams, found guilty of causing the tragic death of their adopted daughter, Hana, by using Biblical based parenting techniques found in the controversial child-rearing book, To Train up a Child, by Michael and Debi Pearl.
Cook sentenced Carri Williams to 37 years in prison. Her husband Larry, convicted of lesser charges, was sentenced to just under 28 years. Both terms are well above the standard sentencing range.
Cook said, “I feel the punishment should match the outrage felt by this community. I am at a complete loss. I think at some point in this trial each and every one of us sat stunned and speechless without the slightest hope of making any sense of this whatsoever.”
Last September a jury found Larry Williams guilty of first-degree manslaughter, and his wife, Carri Williams, guilty of homicide by abuse as well as manslaughter. The couple adopted Hana, 13, from Ethiopia in 2008.
Hana’s death was consistent with a corporal punishment style advocated by many Christian extremists, and memorialized in the controversial book, To Train Up A Child. According to reports, Hana was beaten and starved as part of a regimen of corporal punishment subscribed to by many Christian homeschoolers and other Christian fundamentalists.
The New York Times reports that the couple's abusive parenting tactics mimicked instructions from the Christian parenting book. Evidence presented at trial indicated Carri Williams had repeatedly beaten Hana with a plastic tube - a device recommended in the book.
To Train Up A Child advocates using a plumbing tool to beat children with starting at age one. The book also advocates giving children cold water baths, putting children outside in cold weather, and forcing them to miss meals, as well as beating them; all of which exemplifies the abuse investigators said Hana endured.
The book is also linked to the deaths of at least two other children, four-year-old Sean Paddock of North Carolina and seven year-old Lydia Schatz of California. In each case, punishment techniques advocated by the controversial Christian parenting manual were used.
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This is the book they used to kill a child!

To Train Up a Child




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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Child abuse 10 Sep 2013
By Christopher Hope
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This drivel contains instructions on how to 'break' a child by beating them until they no longer resist your blows. This filthy rag is an instruction manual on child abuse in the name of a made up religion. Amazon, you should be ashamed of yourself selling this junk. As for the authors, why aren't these people being charged and imprisoned? If you buy this book you are supporting the abuse of children, if you carry out any of the cruel tortures within in, you are a child abuser.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Outraged 1 Mar 2013
By Casey J. Morris
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I can not believe this book is still on sale. Everyone knows that many children have lost their lives due to the parents following the teachings they suggest. R.I.P little angels x
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1.0 out of 5 stars Why are Amazon selling this rubbish? 18 Mar 2013
By D. Scarth
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To advocate disciplining children in this way is highly inappropriate and potentially dangerous. Smacking a 4 month old.. really..

Such chastisement is illegal in this country.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Child abuse at its most abhorrent 10 Sep 2013
By chickentikka25
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Amazon, seriously why are you advocating child abuse and torture? Why do you insist on perpetuating it via distribution of this horrific torture guide? These people should be jailed for writing this, and admitting the abuse of their own child
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1.0 out of 5 stars To Train Up a Child: 10 Sep 2013
By Philip Rainbird
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Having this morning read a newspaper article stating that two children adopted from Africa were mistreated (one murdered) and this book was used by the parents as an excuse for their crime, I felt I ought to read some of its content. It was no surprise to find that this book has its origins in the primitive religious beliefs that persist despite centuries of possible human progress. I find it distressing that any semi rational human could find this book in any way helpful or able to give insight into human child behaviour.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disgusting 13 Jun 2011
By Mummaj0
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This book is absolutely appauling.

First off, smacking or harming a child in anyway is illegal in the UK so I am absolutely disgusted to think that this book is allowed to be on sale.

Second this book basically condones beating your child, or using painful force to make your child obedient.

You do not decide to have children to make them become obdience slaves, making them seem happy but scared to show anything else just incase they would get smacked with a tree stump or thumped on the hand to hurt them.

I have a daughter myself and have never once had to smack or hurt her to make her behave, there are other ways of showing your children the correct way to behave-and although my daughter has her moments (as we all do including adults) on the whole she behaves like a total princess-and lets face it nobody is perfect.

I find it absolutely appauling that the people who have wrote this book feel it ok to justify this kind of behaviour towards their children and even more at the people who have actually published it. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Needless to say I am making a formal complaint to Amazon and any other uk store selling this book once I have written this review.
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5.0 out of 5 stars To TRAIN up a child!!! 17 Oct 2013
By Miss
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I put five stars because I need you to read this review. People need to know how damaging this cult is. Twelve tribes - definitely not what God wants for His children. Well the title says it all really. How much damage is being done to these poor kids and the families they are in. You can not treat a child like an animal. These kids are traumatised by this treatment. Read this book for an explanation why: The boy who was raised as a dog. Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz Basic books 2006.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Train your DOG, don't train your child. Child abuse, pure and simple. 25 Aug 2011
By L. Field
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Currently there are several books available to buy on Amazon that advocate, endorse and advise on parenting methods that involve the physical abuse of children. Examples of titles include To Train Up A Child, by Michael and Debi Pearl; Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp; and Don't Make Me Count to Three by Ginger Plowman. Such books, and other like them, promote behaviour which is abusive of children. All of the above books advocate the use of a rod and other implements on children under one. Such behaviour is abusive to children, and it is also 'offensive', which is contrary to your Content Guidelines. It may well also be illegal, as it seems to go far beyond the 'reasonable chastisement' currently sanctioned by law in the UK. Not only is beating on a regular basis with a rod likely to leave a mark, which is illegal, it is also likely to amount to inhuman or degrading treatment, which is a breach of human rights. We wish Amazon to urgently review their decision to stock any book or other product which advises the physical abuse of children.
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Nadine Dorries Urges Amazon To Ban Christian 'Abuse' Parenting Book, 'How To Train Up Your Child'

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A controversial parenting book that advocates beating children as young as four months old must be banned from sale by Amazon, Tory MP Nadine Dorries has said.
The book in question, which the MP raised in Business Questions in the House of Commons on Thursday, isTo Train Up a Child: Turning the hearts of the fathers to the children by Michael and Debi Pearl.
It includes instructions like: "If you have to sit on him to spank him then do not hesitate. And hold him there until he is surrendered. Prove that you are bigger, tougher, more patiently enduring and are unmoved by his wailing. Defeat him totally. Accept no conditions for surrender. No compromise. You are to rule over him as a benevolent sovereign. Your word is final."
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Nadine Dorries, speaking in the House of Commons

The book, written by the Christian evangelist couple, has more than 80 negative reviews on Amazon, with just five positive.
In 2011, it was alleged that a copy of the book was found in the home of Larry and Carri Williams, from Washington State, who were convicted of manslaughter this year, after their 13-year-old daughter Hana, adopted from Ethiopia was found naked, frozen to death, outside their home. Hana was kept in a locked closet, starved for days, forbidden from using the bathroom and beaten daily with a plumbing tool.
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Dorries asked Leader of the House Andrew Lansley if he would "use his good office to apply pressure on an issue that has come to my attention in the last 24 hours.
"It is regarding a book which is for sale on Amazon called how to train up your child by Michael and Debi Pearl. It actually advocates the beating of children, under the age of 12 months, using a switch.
"And the book recommends that a switch be cut from a willow tree and be no longer than 12cm in length and 8cm in diameter. The book advocates the use of paddles, rulers and other means to beat children from four months onwards."
Dorries said she had written to express her horror about the book's sale to the Departments for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education, and the Prime Minister.

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