After five years in a tug-of-war with authorities over the word “Allah”, the Catholic Church will get its final shot today at pursuing its right to use the word as the Federal Court mulls whether to proceed with the long drawn out dispute. In the dispute, Malaysia’s Christian community has insisted it has the right to print the word “Allah” ― the Arabic word for God that Muslims here insist is exclusively theirs to use ― for its Bahasa Malaysia-speaking church members in its internal weekly paper, Herald. But should the country’s highest court decides to dismiss its bid today, the church would have finally exhausted its last legal avenue in a battle that has driven a deep wedge in Christian-Muslim relations here. -- Ida Lim, TheMalayMailOnine
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:32:09 +0000
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