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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Words of faith inflame Malaysia

Already reeling from ethnic and religious dissent, Malaysia's new rules for religious lexicons have shocked and angered the country's non-Muslim communities. The announcement that only Muslims can use certain Arabic words, such as "Allah", in holy services is especially insulting to the country's Christian, Sikh and Hindu faiths, which for centuries have woven Arabic words into sacred scripts and sermons.

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