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 ...
This is very good news.
I didn't think this would every happen.
THANK YOU for starting this thread.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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It IS newsworthy.
I've been following jihad since 9/11.
This is part of it.
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.
Shocking.
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.
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I saw that and thank you very much.
Bump!
The prosecutors that protect TROP are clearly not afraid of decent civilized people, maybe they need to learn to be.
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