No Allah After All for Malaysian Christians

The Malaysian cabinet’s decision late last week to reinstitute the
cancellation of a Roman Catholic newspaper’s publishing license for using the
word “Allah” interchangeably with “God” in its Malay-language section has
little to do with theology and a lot to do with Malay fears that Christians may
be secretly converting members of the Islamic faith.
“They be…
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