馬來西亞最高法裁決只有穆斯林可用“安拉”

Malaysia's highest court has upheld a government ban against a Roman Catholic newspaper using the world "Allah" to refer to God.

The Federal Court ruled in a four-to-three decision Monday that the church's Malay-language newspaper, The Herald, had no grounds to appeal a lower court decision last year that Allah should be reserved exclusively for Muslims, because if other religions use the word, it could be confusing and lead Muslims to convert.

Such conversion is illegal in Malaysia where more than 60 percent of the population of 30 million are Muslim - the country's official religion. Just over 9 percent are Christian.馬來西亞最高法院支持政府禁止一家羅馬天主教會的報紙用“安拉”指稱上帝。

馬來西亞聯邦法院星期一以四比三的表決結果判定，這家教會的馬來語報紙“前驅報”沒有理由對去年一家下級法院的判決提出上訴。那家法院判定，只有穆斯林可以使用“安拉”這一指稱，根據是如果其他宗教也用“安拉”，就可能導致混亂，致使穆斯林轉信其他宗教。

在馬來西亞，穆斯林轉信其他宗教屬於非法。馬來西亞人口爲3千萬，其中穆斯林超過60%。伊斯蘭教是馬來西亞的國教。在馬來西亞，基督教徒只佔人口的9%。