My God is not your God: the role of media in handling the uproar caused by the used of 'Allah' by non-Muslims in Malaysia
In late 2007, the Home Ministry of Malaysia has banned the use of the word 'Allah' by the Herald, a Catholic newsletter. The ministry later confiscated 15,000 copies of Malay language Bibles imported from Indonesia in which the word for God is translated as 'Allah'. The reason is...
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Pacific and Asian Communication Association
2013
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27939/1/My%20God%20is%20not%20your%20God%20the%20role%20of%20media%20in%20handling%20the%20uproar%20caused%20by%20the%20used%20of%20%27Allah%27%20by%20non-Muslims%20in%20Malaysia.pdf |