Posted on 01/06/2016 7:13:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
James McConnell, a 78-year-old Belfast pastor, has been found not guilty of broadcasting "grossly offensive" speech about Islam.
McConnell, who made his remarks at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast in 2014, was charged with improper use of a public electronic communications network and causing a grossly offensive message to be sent by means of a public electronic communications network. Both are prohibited under the British 2003 Communications Act.
The verdict follows a trial after one of McConnell's sermons was broadcast online. In it McConnell said: "Islam is heathen, Islam is satanic, Islam is a doctrine spawned in hell." McConnell compared Muslims to the IRA, saying there were cells of Islamic radicals spread across the United Kingdom. He also said: "Now people say there are good Muslims in Britain -- that may be so -- but I don't trust them." ...
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Great news!
He really didn’t say anything worse than what was written by +John the Damascene in the 8th century.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. I assume that applies across the Pond as well.
The landscape has changed in NI since my last visit in 2006.
You assume wrong. There is no Free Speech across the Pond. And frankly there is no Free Speech on this side of the Pond either.
Allah is Satan. So there is no doubt Islam is satanic.
Still unfortunately the impact will be felt. Instead of speaking the truth about islam people will hold their tongues so that they don’t have to go through the enpormous hassle of being tried for it.
Liberalism just like every other form of totalitarianism thrives on controlling/destroying free speech.
Was it a jury trial?
The truth is offensive to those living a lie.
A couple of good questions to ask the common man:
a. which religion does our creator love the most?
b. which religion does Satan have the fewest problems with?
Time to go Pol Pot on the bureaucrats and their masters
Thomas Aquinas re-iterated the same thing in the 14th century, John Quincy Adams, in the 18th, and Winston Churchill in the 19th.
Indeed.
What makes +John’s critique unique is that he had been an official under the Caliph and truly under stood Islam from the “inside” without compromising or abandoning his Christian faith.
We need to be more concerned that Christianity will not be allowed to speak the truth more than the truth about Islam. We do know the time will come that the Gospel message will only be heard behind closed doors...and that’s because people will be under the great delusion and will not be able to hear the truth. We sure see enough of that today where people deny reality and only want to hear what they want to hear.
The left knows fully well that they are corrupting the world as apart of the globalist plan, coupled with all of the other religions outside of true Christianity which will bring satan to power. Everything that is happening right now is leading up to exactly as written.
Islam is the most evil force on earth today....Everything about islam is written on the faces of Hezbollah,Hamas,Alqaeda,Isis,Boko-Haram,Al-shabab,Taliban, etc. etc.... all theses groups are all muslims who read the Arabic Book of the Quaran and The Hadiths......Islam is evil and it leads to evil.
Really? I did not know that.
Islamic center just opened a few blocks from my house. Sometimes I pass by when they let out events and I see dozens of Muslims outside.
They ALL look like miserable or angry robots. Even the children.
No wonder so many go crazy and blow things up. I think Jim Jones’ followers looked much happier...
I guess Sir Winston Churchill could not give a speech then....
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the infence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith
Is truth a valid defense under Irish law?
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