{"id":8627,"date":"2010-01-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/03\/landmark-malaysian-allah-ruling\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T12:00:00","slug":"landmark-malaysian-allah-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/03\/landmark-malaysian-allah-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark Malaysian &#8220;Allah&#8221; Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/8435975.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, December 31, 2009: After the authorities had insisted that Allah in the Malay language refers only to the God in Islam, which could only be sued by Muslims, a court in Malaysia has ruled that other faiths have a constitutional right to use the word Allah to refer to God.<\/p>\n<p>Ruling on a lawsuit filed by the Herald, a publication of the Catholic Church in Malaysia, in 2007, the High Court said a government ban on non-Muslims using the world was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur said some Muslim groups suspect the Catholic Church is seeking to encourage Muslims to convert to Christianity &#8211; a move which is illegal in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of Malaysia&#8217;s population is Muslim but the large Chinese and Indian communities are mainly Christian, Buddhist or Hindu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 31, 2009: After the authorities had insisted that Allah in the Malay language refers only,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}