Controversy use word of God, Four damaged Church Malaysia

SARA smelling violence erupted in Malaysia. Four churches were destroyed and burned.As a result, one of them badly damaged.

Violence is escalating wave of protests from Muslims who reject the use of the word of God by Christian groups.

In the first attack, the ground floor of a three-story church in the village of Tabernacle Metro Melawati, Kuala Lumpur, burned in the explosion Molotov cocktails thrown by some bikers. It happened late in the morning yesterday (8 / 1). Two floors above the sanctuary was not damaged. Police said no casualties in the incident.

Three other churches, including Assumption Church in Jalan Templer and Life Tabernacle Church, both in Petaling Jaya, was attacked the next few hours. One of them minor damage. While others do not damaged. Until last night, no one was arrested related to the case.

Muslims in the State Ringgit that amounted to 60 percent of the population mad. They were protesting the high court's decision to revoke the local ban on the use of the word of God as a translation of the word God in the Roman Catholic newspaper The Herald-speaking Malays.

Banning is already in place for about three years was revoked on December 31 and by the High Court of Kuala Lumpur.

The Associated Press reported, the government declared that God-Arabic words from the beginning used by the Islamic religion, is exclusive to the Muslim faith and applied nationally in Malaysia. The government refused to make an exception even though Malays edition of The Herald is read only by Christian residents in Sabah and Sarawak.

Court's decision provoked protests in cash and plans a demonstration of several Muslim organizations, especially from hard-line. Yesterday's protests were still going on. After Friday prayers at the two main mosque in downtown Kuala Lumpur, a number of youth carried banners and berorasi of defense against Islam.

''We will not allow the word of God carved in your church,''said an orator who used mosque loudspeakers in Kampong Bahru. About 50 protesters carried posters that read "Use of the wrong against the word of God is a violation. God just for us".

Against attack on the church-geraja, PM Najib Razak expressed its concern and condemn the incident. ''Such actions may destroy the harmonization of our country. The government will take steps necessary to prevent (a repeat) those actions,''he said as quoted by the BBC