Posted by Eugene Volokh:
They Said Jehovah!
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_22-2009_03_28.shtml#1237931344
From [1]Channel News Asia:
Malaysian religious authorities have threatened to sue the
country's top legal body for using the word "Allah" on its website,
in another row over the issue to hit the multi-ethnic country.
The Islamic religious council in central Selangor state said it
would take action against the Malaysian Bar, which represents some
12,000 lawyers, for using the word as a translation for "God" in
two online polls on its website.
Its comments came amid a long-running battle between the government
and a Roman Catholic newspaper which has been threatened with
closure for using the disputed word in its Malay-language edition.
The government has argued that the word should be used only by
Muslims, who dominate the population of multicultural Malaysia.
The Malaysian Bar's polls asked lawyers to vote on whether any
particular race in Malaysia had an exclusive right to use "Allah"
and whether non-Muslim religious publications should be allowed to
use the word.
"The issue raised in the polls can threaten the sensitivity of
Muslims," the head of the religious council Mohamad Adzib Mohamad
Isa said in a statement....
Thanks to [2]Religion Clause and to [3]Monty Python.
References
1. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/416604/1/.html
2.
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2009/03/malaysian-bar-group-threatened-with.html
3. http://www.geocities.com/pythoninsanity/LifeofBrian.html
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