Tensions over the word 'Allah' flare in Malaysia


Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- The Metro Tabernacle Church, a storefront with metal shutters, sits gutted, black smoke stains on the concrete pillars bearing witness to the intense fire that destroyed the property.




The spark for the wave of violence was a successful challenge by the Herald, a Catholic weekly, of a government ban on continued use of the word "Allah" by Christians to describe God. The court has stayed its late-December decision pending a government appeal...

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