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Malaysia court rules non-Muslims cannot use 'Allah'
Related StoriesA Malaysian court has ruled that non-Muslims cannot use the word Allah to refer to God, overturning a 2009 lower court ruling.
The appeals court said that allowing non-Muslims to use the word would "cause confusion in the community".
Christians argue that they have used the word in Malay for decades and that the ruling violates their rights.
The 2009 ruling sparked religious tensions and led to churches and mosques being attacked.
It came after the government said that a Catholic newspaper, The Herald, could not use the word in its Malay-language edition to describe the Christian God.
The newspaper sued, and a court ruled in their favour in December 2009. The government then launched an appeal.
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