Final court loss for Malaysian Catholics in Allah dispute
Malaysia’s weekly Catholic newspaper has lost its last legal challenge to a ban on the publication’s use of the word “Allah” to refer to God.
Jan 21, 2015
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s weekly Catholic newspaper has lost its last legal challenge to a ban on the publication’s use of the word “Allah” to refer to God.
The Malaysian Insider reported that the ruling applies only to the Catholic Herald and is not a blanket prohibition of the use of the word by non-Muslims.
In the Malay language, Christians have used the word “Allah” to refer to God for centuries.
Islam is the official language of Malaysia, whose population is 61% Muslim, 20% Buddhist, 9% Christian, and 6% Hindu. About half of Christians in the Southeast Asian nation are Catholic.--CWN
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