Unnecessary hullabaloo over Timah, the whisky

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You seriously cannot make this stuff up. A bunch of Malaysians who distilled a whisky and named it Timah got into trouble over the name. Some zealous people claimed that name is based on Prophet Muhammad’s daughter Fatimah, which locally is usually shortened to Timah.The official version of how Timah whisky was named is that the name refers to the other meaning of “timah” in Malay – tin. It harks to the history of Perak, the state which owed its modern origin to tin mining.Heck, Timah’s makers could have named their whisky Perak, after the state, and saved us all the trouble. But this name would probably have offended historians who would have deemed it to refer to Tun Perak, one of Melaka’s most famous historical statesmen. Had they named the whisky Tun Perak though, they’d have ended up offending all the historians and all the Tuns too!It certainly was never an option to call…