Recently, the Malaysian government has reversed a decision to ban a Christian newspaper using the word Allah to refer to God. The government had threatened to refuse to give the Weekly Herald a publishing permit if it continued to use the word. This decision is negligence toward human right and freedom of journalism and faith. Basically, everyone have the same right to express what he believed, especially in public space. In this case, Malaysia government opens the conflict among minority and majority communities of religion.The paper's editor said the word had long been used by Christians to refer to God in the Malay language. The ruling was...
