Malaysian
authorities seize
Bibles in ‘Allah’ row
on january 02, 2014 at 12:18 pm
in news
KUALA LUMPUR, (AFP) –
Malaysian Islamic authorities on
Thursday seized hundreds of
Bibles from a Christian group
and questioned two of its
officers, one of them said, amid
tensions over the use of the
word “Allah”.
A court in October barred a
Malaysian Catholic newspaper
from using “Allah” to refer to
the Christian God in its Malay-
language edition — a verdict
which was welcomed by Muslim
conservatives but which
sparked concern among
Christians, a minority in the
multi-faith country.
After the verdict, Prime Minister
Najib Razak, walking a tightrope
between pleasing his
conservative Muslim ethnic
Malay base without alienating
non-Muslim minorities, assured
Christians the practice of their
religion would not be
threatened.
But Islamic officials from the
central state of Selangor on
Thursday seized 16 boxes
containing more than 300 Bibles
from the Bible Society of
Malaysia, said the society’s
president Lee Min Choon.
Lee said he and a colleague
were also detained “under a
state law, which prohibits the
use of the word Allah by non-
Muslims”.



Source: Vanguardnews