PETALING JAYA: Tolerance is the formula that has enabled Muslims and non-Muslims in Sabah and Sarawak to share the usage of the word “Allah” without any problems.
Sarawak Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department (Islamic Affairs) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman said Christians in the state had been using Allah to refer to God for over a hundred years because the bibles were in Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.
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