Black & White Country

New Zealand it is.

All Blacks - National Rugby Team
Small Blacks - Junior Rugby Team
Black Ferns - National Women RugbyTeam
Black Caps - National Cricket Team
Black Sticks - National Hockey Team
Tall Blacks - National Basketball Team
All Whites - National Soccer Team

Now they are considering Black Cocks as the official team for the National Badminton Team.
Soon enough, the Small Black Sticks will also emerge....

So it is not surprising when one of the Maori MPs Hone Harawira's angry response to an email to a fellow Maori, he wrote "...those White motherf***ks have been raping the country....", he probably just expressing the national sentiments of using simple colour adjectives of either black or white. Hues and cries broke out in this "black & white" country.

Hone also claimed that he is also a Pakeha (White European), probably because of his white ancestors.... in that case he was just stating a fact!

Powderful Power

In politics, sometimes there appears an unofficial powerful figure behind the official power:-

In China: Jiang Qing
In Philippines: Imelda
In Taiwan: Wu Shu-Chen
In Bolehland: Rosmah

History sometimes also repeats itself....

Allah

The Catholic Church of Malaysia has been challenging the Malaysian Government and the relevent authorities on the ban of the use of "Allah" by non Muslims, particularly in the official translation of Bible in the local language.

Abdullah Zin, the de factor Minister for Islamic Affairs was quoted as saying " The Cabinet is of the view that "Allah" refers to the Muslim God and can only be used by Muslims who comprise 60% of the Malaysian's population."

I don't understand why in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world today, the Government there has not claimed exclusitivity of "Allah" as the Muslim God.

I don't know the actual technical or scientific or theological arguments of the Malaysian Government. Maybe someone out there may want to give me an education on this? Is there an International Tribunal to rule on this matter?

But I can only guess the political motive.

Perhaps, administratively, the Malaysian Government has an option to win the court case by quickly making a Trademark registration of the word "Allah" with the Registrar of TradeMark. It will probably fit into Class 45 of the Trade mark Act: " Personal and social services rendered by others to meet the needs of individuals; security services for the protection of property and individuals."

My God would not mind what name I call him as long as He knows that I believe in His son, Christ Jesus... who was, who is and who is to come.