Islam in Malaysia He converted to Islam after marrying a princess from Pasai, of present-day Indonesia. The religion was adopted peacefully by the coastal trading ports people of Malaysia and Indonesia, absorbing rather than conquering existing beliefs. By the 15th and 16th centuries it was the majority faith of the Malay people. Currently, Islam is the state religion, specifically Shafi'ite school Sunnism. Some Islamic terms, such as the word Allah, are forbidden to non-Muslims both orally and in writing, which has created a controversy . In October 2013, the Malaysian Court of Appeal upheld the government's ban on the use of the word
Return to the Forbidden Planet Return to the Forbidden Planet Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and the 1956 science fiction film "Forbidden Planet" (which itself drew its plot loosely from "The Tempest"). It was billed as "Shakespeare's forgotten rock and roll masterpiece". "Return to the Forbidden Planet" started life with the Bubble Theatre Company as a production for open-air performance in a tent. A revised version of the musical opened, indoors, at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the mid-1980s. It later moved to the Tricycle Theatre in London. After some rework