Indigenous Christians in Saba and Sarawa used the word Allah in their Malay language Bibles but Muslim pressure groups argue that the word is exclusive to Islam citing a 1986 government directive that prohibits non Muslims from using it.
Dec 3, 2024
Dec 3, 2024 · Apart from “Allah”, the government, when led by Dr Mahathir Mohamad during his first stint as prime minister, had banned three other words: “Kaaba”, “Baitullah” ...
Dec 3, 2024 · A new book has revealed that the sik community once feared that its holy book The Guru Grant S would be banned.
Dec 3, 2024 · 85 Likes, 21 Comments. TikTok video from Free Malaysia Today (@freemalaysiatoday): “Sikhs feared 'Allah' controversy would see holy book ban, ...
Nov 19, 2024 · Ibrahim writes: “In late 2007, the Home Ministry banned the use of the word Allah by the Herald, a Catholic newspaper, and later confiscated 15,000 copies of ...
2 days ago · Christians in Malaysia and Indonesia use Allah to refer to God in the Malaysian ... In October 2013 the court ruled in favor of the government's ban.
Nov 23, 2024 · ... Allah' is allowed to be used by non-Muslims nationwide. Justice Nor Bee ruled that the Malaysian government's directive issued in 1986 with a total ban on ...
Nov 21, 2024 · Meanwhile, in Malaysia , where Islam is the state religion, Christians have been banned from calling their god 'Allah' since 1986 . In other words, the word ...
Nov 18, 2024 · The Sharia courts in Malaysia also enforces some limited amount of Islamic criminal law only applicable for Muslims, the maximum sentence for these are 6 ...
