court of Appeal allow the Use of Allah in malaysia university

on Thursday won the right to appeal a court ruling that allowed the country’s non-Muslim minority to use the word Allah to refer to God. Appeal hearings are scheduled to start Sept. 10 to resolve the politically delicate dispute that prompted attacks on Malaysian churches and other places of worship more than three years ago. Allah is the Arabic word for God and is commonly used in the Malay language to refer to God. The government, however, insists that Allah is an Islamic word and that its use by others would confuse Muslims. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the government could challenge a 2009 verdict by a lower court that permitted the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia to use Allah

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