MCMC grills BFM producer duo over Reza Aslan interview
(MM) – The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) questioned two BFM radio producers today over a recent interview they conducted with American religious scholar Dr Reza Aslan over the “Allah” controversy.
Ezra Zaid said that the country’s communications and Internet regulator called him and his colleague, Umapagan Ampikaipakan, up for a statement this afternoon over their interview with Aslan.
“Umapagan and myself were called in today to give a statement,” Ezra told The Malay Mail Online today.
In the interview with the business station last Monday, Aslan criticised the recent Court of Appeal ruling that found that the word “Allah” belonged exclusively to Muslims, pointing out that the word was just an Arabic term for God.
“Allah is a construction of the word al-Ilah…Al-Ilah means ‘The God’. Allah is not the name of God.
“Frankly, anyone who thinks that Allah is the name of God, is not just incorrect, but is going against the Quran itself. It is almost a blasphemous thought to think that Allah has a name,” Aslan had said.
Part of the interview with Aslan, which featured his remarks on the “Allah” issue, did not air, but was uploaded in a podcast on BFM’s website www.bfm.my instead.
Read more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/mcmc-grills-bfm-producer-duo-over-reza-aslan-interview
