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The Fallout from Malaysia's Allah Flap

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Jan 21, 2010
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The arrest Wednesday of eight men who allegedly firebombed Kuala Lumpur's Metro Tabernacle Church on Jan. 7 appears to indicate that a sobering leadership is starting to count the cost of inflaming ethnic passions over the Dec. 31 court verdict that allowed non-Muslims to use the word "Allah" to refer to God.

According to local media, the suspects were a…

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