Malaysian court strikes down ban on Catholic use of “Allah”

Wall Street Journal: “Malaysia’s High Court Thursday ruled that local Roman Catholics can resume referring to God as Allah in Malay-language publications, in a decision that appeared to partially halt the steady Islamization of the majority-Muslim nation in recent years . . . the government can appeal to a higher court where the ban can be reinstated.”

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