{"id":40546,"date":"2013-10-15T01:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T01:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_malaysian_court_rules_use_of_allah_exclusive_to_muslims\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T01:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T01:50:39","slug":"reuters_malaysian_court_rules_use_of_allah_exclusive_to_muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40546","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Malaysian court rules use of &#39;Allah&#39; exclusive to Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian court ruled on Monday that a Christian newspaper may not use the word &#8220;Allah&#8221; to refer to God, a landmark decision on an issue that has fanned religious tension and raised questions over minority rights in the mainly Muslim country.<\/p>\n<p>The unanimous decision by three Muslim judges in Malaysia&#8217;s appeals court overturned a 2009 ruling by a lower court that allowed the Malay-language version of the newspaper, The Herald, to use the word Allah &#8211; as many Christians in Malaysia say has been the case for centuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/10\/14\/us-malaysia-court-allah-idUSBRE99D01J20131014\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian court ruled on Monday that a Christian newspaper may not use the word &#8220;Allah&#8221; to refer to God, a landmark decision on an issue that has fanned religious tension and raised questions over minority rights in the mainly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40546\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,201,161,426,114,482,89,659,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-malaysia","category-media","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}