Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Malaysia: Christians banned from using the word ‘Allah’ by Federal Court

The word is used by some of Malaysia’s Christian minority as the Malaysian language equivalent of the English word “God”.

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By Richard Lloyd Parry | June 23 2014

Christians in Malaysia have been banned from using the word “Allah”, in the culmination of a five-year legal battle that has provoked violence and religious tension in one of southeast Asia’s most ethnically diverse countries.

Today the Federal Court in Putrajaya rejected an appeal by the Roman Catholic Church, and upheld a government ban on the use of the word Allah by anyone other than Muslims. The word is used by some of Malaysia’s Christian minority as the Malaysian language equivalent of the English word “God”.

The word Allah, which originates in Arabic, has been used for centuries by Christians.


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