ALLAH ONLY FOR ISLAM?

I came across this article the other day: “Malaysia’s top court: ‘Allah’ for Muslims only.” It was quite the provocative headline, and ruling, which censored the use of “Allah” for God in Roman Catholic newspaper articles, as clarified in “Malaysian court to Christians: You can’t say ‘Allah’”

This might never really strike a chord in many American evangelicals, as a good number of them would may very well get a bit nervous and perturbed at hearing someone referring to the deity revealed in the Scriptures as “Allah,” albeit Allah has be used among many Arabic speaking Christians (See, for example, “Allah Does Not Belong to Islam.”)

What is also unsettling is an example where the court tells the press what words can be used in publications. (This might be just another American idea too, unless there is something universally true about free speech.)

~ WGN