Malaysia Catholics Can’t Use Allah as Religious Strife Rises
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Malaysia’s top court dismissed a final bid by the Catholic church to use the word “Allah” in its newspaper, highlighting a debate on non-Muslims using the word in a climate of rising religious tensions.
The Federal Court will not review the case because there was no procedural unfairness when it ruled in June that the weekly Herald Malaysia newspaper could not refer to God in that way, Judge Abdull Hamid Embong said in a unanimous verdict handed down by a panel of five judges Wednesday in Putrajaya, outside of Kuala Lumpur.