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Malaysia does an Allah Climb Down

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Dec 31, 2007
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In the face of widespread adverse public reaction, the

Malaysian government has backed away from canceling the publishing license of a

Roman Catholic newspaper for using the word “Allah” interchangeably for “God”

in the Malay language section of the paper.

“There are no conditions, there was no mention of the Allah

ban," the editor of The Herald, Lawrence An…

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