Wednesday the court suspended its ruling, after the government, which has filed an appeal, argued that it was inciting racial conflict. Some Muslims were exercised enough about the court's decision to commence burning churches. It is against the law in Malaysia for those of rival faiths to proselytize to Muslims. Muslims contend that the people of the primates are nothing but a mendacious pack of sneak-thieves stealthily working to convert Muslims to Christianity through distraction and confusion. Ratzinger's people claim that the word "Allah" was used in Malay to refer to a grumpy sky king long before Islam ever arrived in the area, and that there is simply no other word in the language to refer to their version of The Big Dude. Christian missionaries are making a mess in Malaysia by insisting upon the right to use the word "Allah" to refer to their particular variant of the Abrahamic deity.Ī two-year legal battle by the publishers of the Catholic Herald resulted December 31 in a ruling by a Malaysian high court permitting the paper to use the word "Allah" in its Malay-language edition to refer to that fellow commonly known in the English language as "God," "Lord," "Jehovah," "Heavenly Father," and "The Rat Bastard Who Tortured and Tormented Job On A Bet."
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