Tuesday, 16 Mar 2021 04:21 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Jill Ireland Lawrence Bill’s lawyers Annou Xavier (right) and Lim Heng Seng (left) are seen at the Kuala Lumpur High Court after the court’s quashing of the government ban on the word ‘Allah’ in Christian publications, March 10, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 A total of 54 federal and state lawmakers from Sabah and Sarawak have come together in a bipartisan effort to ask the federal government to discontinue its appeal against the High Court’s quashing of a decades-old government ban on the word “Allah” in Christian publications.
Datuk Seri Madius Tangau. -filepic
KOTA KINABALU: Please do not appeal against a High Court ruling that allows Christians to use the word “Allah” in their religious publications for educational purposes, urges the United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (Upko).
Its president Datuk Seri Madius Tangau said the court’s decision to remove the ban on the use of the word for non-Muslims was a partial restoration of the original Malaysia and not an encroachment on Muslims.
“It is a restoration of the pre-1986 status quo, part of the original Malaysia promised to Sabah and Sarawak (freedom of religion) prior to the formation of the federation of Malaysia in 1963, ” he said in a statement on Saturday (March 13).