What’s in a word?


The Government’s refusal to allow Christians to use the word ‘Allah’ presents a number of challenges.

THE dispute over the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims first erupted in 2008 when the Home Ministry banned the Herald, the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia’s weekly newspaper from using it in its Malay-language section.

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Opinion , Karim Raslan

   

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