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Pastors' convictions for quoting Quran overturned (Australia
World Net Daily ^ | December 28, 2006 | WorldNetDaily.com

Posted on 12/30/2006 11:43:16 PM PST by Northern Alliance

Two Australian pastors who were convicted of "vilifying" Muslims when they quoted from the Quran during a seminar on jihad have had their appeals upheld by the Victorian Supreme Court.

And while that means they will return to a lower court for another trial, that actually is a good result, according to a new report from Voice of the Martyrs.

"In a sense we are happy with this decision… It means this case will be kept alive in the public consciousness," Pastor Danny Nalliah said in a VOM report. "There's a need to keep these vilification laws in sharp focus to reveal the problems this law is creating."

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: antichristian; appeasement; globaljihad; islam; jihad; koran; quran; rop

1 posted on 12/30/2006 11:43:18 PM PST by Northern Alliance
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To: Northern Alliance
It's against the law to vilify villains? Wow!
2 posted on 12/30/2006 11:55:40 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Barack Saddam Hussein Obama)
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To: Northern Alliance

This is very good news.
I didn't think this would every happen.

THANK YOU for starting this thread.


3 posted on 12/31/2006 12:04:07 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Northern Alliance

So much for free speech. The secular-progressives will tolerate only one point of view. Anything else is deemed as hate speech. That's messed up.


4 posted on 12/31/2006 12:06:22 AM PST by MovementConservative (Known by love.)
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To: Northern Alliance
Many of the "hate crimes" proposals in the United States are based on a similar concept: designating as "crimes" the statements people make about their own beliefs or convictions.

This is where the left in this country wants us to go. They wont be happy until we are like Europe... an aging dying civilization devoid of hope.

5 posted on 12/31/2006 12:10:18 AM PST by MovementConservative (Known by love.)
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To: Cindy

Cindy, you are welcome. It caught my eye at WND. I didn't think much would shock me anymore in this PC world, but I was indeed shocked at the charge against these pastors for simply quoting the Koran. I felt it was newsworthy.


6 posted on 12/31/2006 12:18:03 AM PST by Northern Alliance
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To: Cindy

I told people this would be overturned when it reached the Victorian Supreme Court or the Australian High Court. Those courts can rule on constitutional issues - VCAT could not. The law is clearly unconstitutional.


7 posted on 12/31/2006 12:19:27 AM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Northern Alliance
Two Australian pastors who were convicted of "vilifying" Muslims when they quoted from the Quran during a seminar on jihad

Let me get this straight. mohamedens can quote from the collected ravings of a syphilitic pedophile all of which call for the extermination or enslavement of every single person who isn't just like them every day and that's protected 'free speech'.

But when a non-mohameden (sane person) quotes passages from that very same publication it's a 'hate crime'.

Ooooookay.

L

8 posted on 12/31/2006 12:19:39 AM PST by Lurker (History's most dangerous force is government and the crime syndicates that grow with it.)
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To: Northern Alliance

It IS newsworthy.

I've been following jihad since 9/11.
This is part of it.


9 posted on 12/31/2006 12:22:40 AM PST by Cindy
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To: naturalman1975
Yes, it's a global problem.

This is not the first time that Christians have been harassed like this and unfortunately, it won't be the last.
10 posted on 12/31/2006 12:24:28 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Lurker

WorldNetDaily's description of what happened isn't quite complete - it wasn't just that the Pastors quoted from the Koran, but they were also held to have ridiculed what they quoted.

Either way they should not have been convicted, and the law is unconstitutional under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it wasn't as simple as merely quoting.


11 posted on 12/31/2006 12:24:50 AM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Northern Alliance

Shocking.


12 posted on 12/31/2006 12:29:55 AM PST by PRePublic
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To: naturalman1975
but they were also held to have ridiculed what they quoted.

Good on them. Hopefully John Howard will give them the Aussie equivalant of the Medal Of Freedom for doing so.

I mean why not ridicule "and the rocks themselves will say 'Oh brother muslim, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him!"

If that ain't worth ridiculing then I don't know what is.

Personally I know my day isn't complete until I ridicule something that syphilitic pedophile supposedly said.

L

13 posted on 12/31/2006 12:32:16 AM PST by Lurker (History's most dangerous force is government and the crime syndicates that grow with it.)
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To: Cindy
I've just posted Andrew Bolt's two articles on this:

Pastors' toil and trouble

and

Lack of faith in these laws

They look like they might interest you.

14 posted on 12/31/2006 12:33:02 AM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

I saw that and thank you very much.


15 posted on 12/31/2006 12:33:46 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Northern Alliance
If reading passages from its "holy" book vilifies I Slam then that would mean that it's an essentially vile "religion".
17 posted on 12/31/2006 5:09:02 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Bump!


18 posted on 12/31/2006 6:11:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years)
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To: Lurker

The prosecutors that protect TROP are clearly not afraid of decent civilized people, maybe they need to learn to be.


19 posted on 12/31/2006 8:51:18 AM PST by omega4179
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