KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- With much of the Muslim world beset by violence, Malaysia had prided itself on its clean record, with no major episode of terrorism on home soil.
That distinction was forfeited in the early hours of Friday when a church here was firebombed and two more attacked in a nearby suburb. The attacks were apparently in response to a New Year's Eve court ruling that allowed a Catholic newspaper to use the word "Allah" to refer to the Christian god in a local edition. (Allah is an Arabic word meaning "one god" that predates Islam and is used by Christians in a number of other Muslim countries without controversy.)
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