Malaysia's Federal Court dismissed on Wednesday the Catholic Church's application to review a judgment that prevented a Christian publication from using the word Allah to refer to God, ending a legal battle that began in 2007.
The Church's bid was unanimously rejected because the threshold required for a review was not met, the judges said.
Conservative Muslim groups declared victory when the nation's top court last year upheld a ruling preventing usage of the word Allah in the Malay language section of the Church's weekly newspaper. Keep reading
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Malaysia: Catholic newspaper not allowed to use 'Allah' to refer to God
As I observed in an earlier comment, religious pluralism and religious tolerance are not a part of the Muslim worldview. Conservative Muslim groups claim that the Christian use of the word "Allah" for God will lead Muslims astray. As has been pointed out in previous articles on this issue, Malaysian Christians have a long history of using the word "Allah" for God as it is a part of the language. Malaysian Christians could quite rightly argue that the use of a common word for God with Muslims could lead Christians astray. The real motive behind the claim of conservative Muslim groups is the desire to make trouble for Christians and to discourage the practice of the Christian faith in Malaysia.
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