'Allah' issue should not divide us

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I had never, ever heard the word "Allah" when attending my English-speaking church at a (then) small town called Seremban in the 1980s.The first time I heard that word used for God was when I attended a Christian fellowship event linked to my university days in Kuala Lumpur. It was the first time I had seen Bahasa Malaysia (BM) hymns being used as part of the programme.All this while, BM was just a language that I “had to” get a credit-level score in my SPM examination. Despite being educated for 13 years in the national language, I still felt little affinity for it (okay, except for Apo Nak Di Kato, a hit Malay song sung in the Negeri Sembilan dialect).The 1980s was an era of sharp racial tensions. Unlike nowadays, there were few private colleges then and we were under immense pressure to squeeze into the “Chinese quota” for public universities or face an uncertain …