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.
The Fallout from Malaysia's Allah Flap
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.
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