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  • Malaysia court rules non-Muslims cannot use 'Allah'

    10/14/2013 6:11:13 PM PDT · by Pan_Yan · 25 replies
    BBC ^ | 14 October 2013 Last updated at 10:16 ET
    A Malaysian court has ruled that non-Muslims cannot use the word Allah to refer to God, even in their own faiths, overturning a 2009 lower court ruling. The appeals court said the term Allah must be exclusive to Islam or it could cause public disorder. People of all faiths use the word Allah in Malay to refer to their Gods. Christians argue they have used the word, which entered Malay from Arabic, to refer to their God for centuries and that the ruling violates their rights. One Malaysian Christian woman said the ruling would affect the community greatly. "If we...
  • Turkey: Protesters and military see red as Islamist heads for the presidency

    04/30/2007 11:34:48 AM PDT · by kiriath_jearim · 18 replies · 1,109+ views
    Times Online (UK) ^ | April 30, 2007 | Suna Erdem
    Hundreds of thousands of secularist Turks took to the streets for the second time in two weeks yesterday after a dramatic intervention by the military in an attempt to stop Abdullah Gul becoming the first Turkish President with an Islamist past. Demonstrators in Istanbul carried blood-red national flags and posters of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of a secular Turkey. Banners read: “Sharia (Islamic law) shall not rise to the Presidential Palace.”