{"id":322,"date":"2014-01-04T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/who-can-use-the-word-allah-bibles-seized-in-malaysia.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T15:55:43","slug":"who-can-use-the-word-allah-bibles-seized-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/who-can-use-the-word-allah-bibles-seized-in-malaysia.html","title":{"rendered":"Who can use the word &#8220;Allah?&#8221;  Bibles seized in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e42Jrtwur4c\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Who has the right to use the word \u201cAllah?\u201d Only Muslims?<\/p>\n<p>Islamic authorities in Malaysia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/02\/us-malaysia-religion-idUSBREA010C120140102\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">confiscated 300 Bibles<\/a> because they used the word \u201cAllah\u201d to refer to God.<\/p>\n<p>Malay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/search?q=allah\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">courts had ruled earlier<\/a> that it was illegal for non-Muslims to that word. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-25583960\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The BBC New<\/a>s says \u201cpeople of all faiths use the word Allah in Malay to refer to their gods.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who has the right to use the word \u201cAllah?\u201d Only Muslims? Islamic authorities in Malaysia confiscated 300 Bibles because they used the word \u201cAllah\u201d to refer to God. Malay courts had ruled earlier that it was illegal for non-Muslims to that word. The BBC News says \u201cpeople of all faiths use the word Allah in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who can use the word &quot;Allah?&quot; Bibles seized in Malaysia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Who has the right to use the word &quot;Allah?&quot; Only Muslims? 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