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'Allah' verdict flawed in law and in fact

COMMENT The Court of Appeal’s unanimous decision to ban the use of ‘Allah’ by Catholic weekly The Herald is constitutionally flawed and factually unsustainable.

In overturning the Kuala Lumpur High Court decision, Justice Mohamed Apandi Ali has imputed extra meaning without basis to distort the interpretation of Article 3 of the federal constitution that grants freedom of religious practice.

There is also not an iota of evidence that could have supported the home minister’s order to prohibit The Herald from using ‘Allah’ in its Malay edition.

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