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UK: Belfast Pastor Faces Prison for "Grossly Offending" Islam
Gatestone Institute ^ | 6/28/15 | Soeren Kern

Posted on 06/28/2015 1:46:33 PM PDT by Nachum

James McConnell's prosecution is one of a growing number of examples in which British authorities — who routinely ignore incendiary speech by Muslim extremists — are using hate speech laws to silence Christians.

"My church funds medical care for 1,200 Muslim children in Kenya and Ethiopia. I've no hatred in my heart for Muslims... I believe in freedom of speech. I'm going to keep on preaching the gospel. I have nothing against Muslims, I have never hated Muslims, I have never hated anyone. But I am against what Muslims believe. They have the right to say what they believe in and I have a right to say what I believe." — James McConnell, Pastor.

"Since the Islamic State took over, it [Mosul] has become the most peaceful city in the world." — Raied Al-Wazzan, Executive Director, Belfast Islamic Center. Al-Wazzan is now trying to leverage the controversy over McConnell's remarks to shame local politicians into providing him with free public land to build a mega-mosque.

An evangelical Christian pastor in Northern Ireland is being prosecuted for making "grossly offensive" remarks about Islam.

James McConnell, 78, is facing up to six months in prison for delivering a sermon in which he described Islam as "heathen" and "satanic." The message was streamed live on the Internet, and a Muslim group called the police to complain.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belfast; islam; pastor; uk
We will not comply
1 posted on 06/28/2015 1:46:33 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

But no jail time for muslim pedophiles...


2 posted on 06/28/2015 1:48:38 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

Priorities. The offended Muslims will kill you, while the meek Christians only want to hold a prayer session so God may shed a modicum of grace upon you....


3 posted on 06/28/2015 1:50:27 PM PDT by alloysteel ("Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement..." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Nachum

This cannot end peacefully.


4 posted on 06/28/2015 1:51:24 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: Nachum
"Since the Islamic State took over, it [Mosul] has become the most peaceful city in the world."

Oddly enough that statement is true. It is true because all that oppose the Islamic State have been executed in the most vile of methods, if female and young and attractive sold into sexual slavery, and those that do not agree and are alive cower in fear. Yes, it is peaceful today but if the hands of fate turn, there will be vengeance. It is peaceful today but not in the future.

5 posted on 06/28/2015 1:55:56 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: Nachum

I wish we could get back the lives of the brave Americans who died in WWII to preserve the freedom these fools have so carelessly thrown away.


6 posted on 06/28/2015 2:08:32 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: Nachum

A glimpse of a possible future here.


7 posted on 06/28/2015 2:13:56 PM PDT by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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To: Nachum

The UK richly deserves what the bearded savages are going to do to them.


8 posted on 06/28/2015 2:55:38 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Nachum

F’Allah
F’Mohammed
F’Islam


9 posted on 06/28/2015 3:16:14 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: Nachum

Here’s a little secret. Members of the aristocracy in the UK are quietly marrying their kids to rich Muslims and converting to Islam.


10 posted on 06/28/2015 3:57:41 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Nachum
Like Islam goes out and slaughters innocents that's like okay in that you don't speak out against it?

I like that. "We Will Not Comply"

11 posted on 06/28/2015 4:50:55 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: alloysteel

But not in public. Christians would be forbidden to hold prayers in public the way mussies do it.


12 posted on 06/28/2015 4:51:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Nachum

Muslims deny Christ. It is a blatant example of their evil religion.


13 posted on 06/28/2015 4:53:04 PM PDT by MarMema
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