{"id":8652,"date":"2010-01-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/11\/allah-ruling-causes-unrest-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:00:00","slug":"allah-ruling-causes-unrest-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/11\/allah-ruling-causes-unrest-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Allah&#8221; Ruling Causes Unrest in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/11\/world\/asia\/11malaysia.html?hp\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK, THAILAND, January 11, 2010: An uproar among Muslims in Malaysia over the use of the word Allah by Christians spread over the weekend with the firebombing and vandalizing of several churches, increasing tensions at a time of political turbulence. The attacks, unlike anything Malaysia has experienced before, have shaken the country, where many Muslims are angry over a Dec. 31 court ruling that overturned a government ban on the use of the word Allah to denote the Christian God.<\/p>\n<p>Though that usage is common in many countries, where Arabic- and Malay-language Bibles describe Jesus as the &#8220;son of Allah,&#8221; many Muslims here insist that the word belongs exclusively to them and say that its use by other faiths could confuse Muslim worshipers.<\/p>\n<p>The tensions are shaking a multiethnic, multiracial state that has tried to maintain harmony among its citizens. Analysts say this is the first outright confrontation between Muslims and Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.nytimes.com BANGKOK, THAILAND, January 11, 2010: An uproar among Muslims in Malaysia over the use of the word Allah,&#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-8652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652","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=8652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}