KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — It seems that anyone in Malaysia can refer to God as Allah — as long as you are Muslim.
The Herald, a Church-run weekly newspaper in the capital of Kuala Lumpur, was warned by the government at the start of 2009 that it must stop using Allah when referring to God in its Malay-language edition or risk closure.
However, in its Jan. 24 edition, the Catholic newspaper...
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