16 January 2010

Security increased at Christian churches as Allah row divides Malaysia

Malaysian Christians will attend services in guarded churches alongside plain-clothes detectives tomorrow after another week of unsolved attacks on religious institutions provoked by a controversy over the use of the word Allah.

Six more churches in different parts of Malaysia were vandalised or firebombed after the first round of four attacks the week before, amid growing suspicion that the police were deliberately refraining from arrests to avoid further inflaming Muslim anger. [Times Online] Read more