Malaysian Islamic authorities
on Thursday seized hundreds of Bibles from a Christian group and questioned two
of its officers, one of them said, amid tensions over the use of the word
“Allah”.
A court in October barred a
Malaysian Catholic newspaper from using “Allah” to refer to the Christian God
in its Malay-language edition — a verdict which was welcomed by Muslim
conservatives but which sparked concern among Christians, a minority in the
multi-faith country.
After the verdict, Prime
Minister Najib Razak, walking a tightrope between pleasing his conservative
Muslim ethnic Malay base without alienating non-Muslim minorities, assured
Christians the practice of their religion would not be threatened.
But Islamic officials from the
central state of Selangor on Thursday seized 16 boxes containing more than 300
Bibles from the Bible Society of Malaysia, said the society’s president Lee Min
Choon.
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