COMMENT One of the 10 golden rules of journalism is context. News without context is just noise. The swirling 'Allah' confusion is a case in point.

It was Penang Chief Minister and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng who started the noise by making a call in his 2012 Christmas message for the Alkitab, or Malay-language Bible, to be freely available.

The backlash was so swift and fast that he quickly qualified it as meaning only for Sabah and Sarawak. This is a ludicrous proposition - one country, two bibles. Lim is both out of depth and out of context...