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A Facebook account entitled “Against the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims” is seen in Putrajaya January 5, 2010. More than 61,000 Malaysians protested online over a court ruling allowing a Catholic paper to use the word “Allah” to describe the Christian God, signalling growing Islamic anger in this mostly Muslim Southeast Asian country. A group page on social networking site Facebook was drawing 1,500 new supporters an hour on Monday as last week’s court ruling split political parties and even families.

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