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).