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10 Feb 2015, 4:33 pm by Jeremy Malcolm
Ramlee is truly a Malaysian superstar, who starred in over 60 movies during Malay filmmaking's golden age in the 1950s and 1960s. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 8:02 am by Colleen Mallick
The ruling [Malay Mail report] is based on the 1988 Supreme Court case, Che Omar Che Soh. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 7:32 am
Brunei Darussalam is an Islamic country and Negara Zikir that upholds the Melayu Islam Beraja (Malay Islamic Monarchy) philosophy, and respects the rights of non-Muslims to practice their religion, as provided under the Constitution of Brunei Darussalam. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 10:02 am by Tom Smith
KHOBAR (Saudi Arabia), Jan 1 — State oil giant Saudi Aramco has suspended plans to build a US$2 billion clean fuels plant at its largest oil refinery in Ras Tanura, three industry sources said. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 3:35 am by Howard Friedman
Today's New York Times carries an interesting overview of the conflict in Malaysia regarding non-Muslims speaking or writing in the Malay language using the word "Allah" to mean "God. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
  According to Malay Mail Online, the fatwa said in part:The Halloween celebration is clearly against the values of Shariah. [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 7:37 am by Taylor Gillan
" The 2004 attacks [HRW backgrounder] occurred during a protest by ethnic Malay Muslims when police shot... [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Section 104 of Enakmen Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Istiadat Melayu Kelantan 1994 (Enactment of Religious and Malay Customs--Kelatan 1994) imposes a fine equivalent to $305 (US) and up to one year in prison for violation of the requirement. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 7:28 am
By they way, "amok" comes from the Malay "amoq," which means "engaging furiously in battle, attacking with desperate resolution, rushing in a state of frenzy to the commission of indiscriminate murder... [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 10:32 am by Alison Sacriponte
[JURIST] Malaysian prosecutors charged University of Malay law professor Azmi Sharom with sedition on Tuesday for his opinion on a political crisis that occurred five years ago. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 5:47 am by Ann Schober
[JURIST] The lawyer representing Anwar Ibrahim [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the leader of Malaysia's strongest governmental opposition group [party website, in Malay], was charged [Malaysia Star report, in English] with sedition on Tuesday because of a written statement he issued acting as Anwar's legal counsel. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 9:34 am by William Hibbitts
Before the ban, "Allah" was frequently used to refer to God in Malay because the word was imported from Arabic and the Malay language has no other... [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
 By a vote of 4-3, Malaysia's Federal Court denied an application by the Catholic Church for leave to appeal a Court of Appeals decision that barred the Catholic newspaper, The Herald, from using the term "Allah" in its Malay language edition to refer to God. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 12:43 pm
There's no holding hands in public -- this is a Malay Islamic monarchy. [read post]
7 May 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Malay Mail reports that in Malaysia on Monday the Kuala Lumpur High Court dismissed a suit that had been filed in 2007 by Sidang Injil Borneo (Borneo Evangelical Church) challenging the Home Ministry’s decision to seize three boxes of Malay-language Christian educational books imported from Indonesia that contained the word "Allah. [read post]
22 Mar 2014, 8:51 am by paola Aurucci
HOOKER, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and SocietySixty years on, the Hertogh litigation (1950-51) continues to resonate in the Malay-Muslim world. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 8:57 pm
However, military radar detected blips from what may have been the Malaysian aircraft some 200 miles northwest of Penang, Malaysia, putting the plane well off course to the west of the Malay Peninsula and over the Andaman Sea. [read post]
9 Mar 2014, 8:00 am by Howard Friedman
This latest order adds to the long-running controversy over the use of "Allah" by non-Muslims-- particularly the use by Malay speaking Catholics to refer to God. [read post]