Hiyo ni bangi.

Exactly @kusadikika! It is wa-Ngai or Mu-Ngai etc... It is NOT Ngai, the Supreme Creator.

Je! Umeshamuona mtu mmoja anajiita "NGAI"???

I think this is largely due to ignorance about the meaning of something. If people bothered to understand the meaning, then it would be very easy to know what one is doing.

Just like "Ngai" is Kikuyu word for the "Supreme God", and Mungai (mu-Ngai) means "of-God", or Muigai (Mu-igai) means "of-the-Devider" (historically DIVIDED the region around Kirinyaga i.e. Mt. Kenya among the 9 daughters of Mumbi)... Similarly, the Word "Allah" is Arabic word to mean "The God". Allah does not mean "God" but "THE God" i.e. the Supreme God. And by the way this Arabic word is not exclusive to Islam, but for any Arab speaking person who believes in a Supreme Creator, which include even the Arab Christians who refer to Almighty God as "Allah". So if you find an Arab person who prays to a supreme God, then he calls that supreme God ALLAH... and that person is not necessarily a Muslim.

So naming your kid "The God" will not arise if one understands the meaning. It is inappropriate because you can imagine the child becomes an adult and writes an application letter, he would sign "Yours faithfully, The God Nandwa"

I know a guy called NGAI... not mungai but NGAI! a kyuk fellow!
Kulikuwa a Jehova wanyonyi and co.

They are definitely impostors. They are self-proclaimed individuals who don't care about the true meaning of the names or words, or don't respect the true owner of the names. If it were the time of Gikuyu, the father of Kikuyu people, he would be summoned to face Mt. Kenya to answer charges of blasphemy.

blasphemy is really a show of insecurity! it's what a person is labeled after pushing against the boundaries of what adherents of a certain faith consider the forgivable boundaries. but to me it's really a matter of dates! what is blasphemy today may be permissible tomorrow. And that's the reason I think it's not an offense to God but rather his henchmen - if it was offensive to God... each time someone would do it... they would 'go'! but nope... that doesn't happen. Some have argued that it's a victimless crime!

@mavegs, we cannot mix believe with disbelieve.

If you are a believer in Supreme Being, then you know what blasphemy is.

But if you are an atheist and you do no believe in The God the creator, then what does it concern you what believers do? You would be meddling in what does not concern you.

If you are atheist, then leave religious stuff alone as long as no one forces you to it. Leave their names alone. Use atheist names...

That's confusing a child. Whenever people go down to pray the child will either answer to believers calling Allah or will wonder why people keep calling out her name.

My point is the repercussions of blasphemy are rarely felt by adherents of the faith whose deity and/or chief messenger has been 'insulted' but rather by a minority of the population that don't give 2 f*cks about the religion and it's deities. A good example is the Pakistani blasphemy laws... when I lived there Christians and Hindus were being arrested all over! the case of Asia Bibi was very prominent when I was there... she has been condemned to death for asking the question - "I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of mankind. What did your Prophet Mohammed ever do to save mankind?" after muslims made derogatory statements about her religion. Heck the case got so touchy until the then governor of Punjab was shot by his body guard coz he lobbied for Asia to get pardoned by the president and denounced section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code (aka the notorious blasphemy laws) that say

I remember a news story about an Asian Muslim majority Country where the Muslims objected to the use of the word “Allah” by Christians to refer to their (Christian) God!