{"id":2139,"date":"2010-03-22T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/03\/pas-wants-amendments-to-rukunegara-to-include-allah\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:36:19","slug":"pas-wants-amendments-to-rukunegara-to-include-allah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/pas-wants-amendments-to-rukunegara-to-include-allah\/","title":{"rendered":"PAS wants amendments to Rukunegara to include \u2018Allah\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"img_caption left\" style=\"float: left; width: 350px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption\" src=\"https:\/\/media.themalaysianinsider.com\/images\/2010\/03\/22\/0322_hadi.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang wants the word 'Allah'  to be included in the Rukunegara. - Picture by Choo Choy May\" width=\"350\" height=\"287\" style=\"float: left;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>By  Shazwan Mustafa Kamal <\/em><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 \u2014 PAS wants the Rukunegara to be amended, and  to include the use of \u201cAllah\u201d instead of \u201cGod\u201d following debates over  the last few months over \u201cAllah\u201d being used by non-Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang told reporters outside  Parliament that the government should view the debate on the \u201cAllah\u201d  issue in a positive light, and make appropriate changes to the  Rukunegara to refer to \u201cGod\u201d as \u201cAllah\u201d, as Christians and non-Muslims  also use the word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is wrong with it, it is an achievement in unity following the  \u2018Allah\u2019 issue. We should not only change the Rukunegara, we should make  it more proactive, and at the same time work towards unity,\u201d said Hadi.<\/p>\n<p>He affirmed that whatever confusion which may be caused by the usage  of the word may be resolved by religious scholars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristians and other religions have realised the glory of the name  \u2018Allah\u2019; Lord, God and other words do not have the same meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government needs to accept things in a positive light in  handling the issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 \u2014 PAS wants the Rukunegara to be amended, and to include the use of \u201cAllah\u201d instead of \u201cGod\u201d following debates over the last few months over \u201cAllah\u201d being used by non-Muslims. PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang told reporters outside Parliament that the government should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}