{"id":12,"date":"2008-11-21T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-11-21T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T12:27:37","slug":"pastor-daniel-nalliah%e2%80%99s-uncompromising-fight-to-defend-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Daniel Nalliah\u2019s Uncompromising Fight to Defend Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest: Pastor Daniel Nalliah<br \/>\nPresident, <a title=\"Catch the Fire Christian Ministry charged with breaching the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catchthefire.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catch the Fire Christian Ministry<\/a><br \/>\nMelbourne, Australia<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pastor Daniel Nalliah of Catch the Fire Christian Ministry discusses the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act of Victoria, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/SolidVox.com\/pw-danielnalliah01.mp3\">Listen, download or podcast the mp3 audio file of this interview<\/a><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following an official complaint by three members of the <a title=\"Islamic Council of Victoria complains that Muslims has been villified\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icv.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic Council of Victoria<\/a>, Pastor Daniel Nalliah, Pastor Daniel Scott, and <a title=\"Catch the Fire Ministry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catchthefire.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catch the Fire Christian Ministry<\/a> have been found GUILTY of Religious Villification (in breach of the <a title=\"Text of the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, Victoria, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austlii.edu.au\/au\/legis\/vic\/consol_act\/rarta2001265\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racial and Religious Tolerance Act<\/a>) after quoting from the Koran\/Q\u2019ran and other authoritative Islamic texts that repeatedly, consistently, and explicitly advocated the use of coercion to spread Islam and to deal with non-believers.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Higgins stated, among other things, that they had<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; incited scorn, fear and hatred of Muslim people<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that their statements<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; were likely to incite hatred towards Muslims and sought to create fear against Muslims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this interview, <strong>Pastor Daniel Nalliah<\/strong>, talks about his experiences living in Saudi Arabia, the stupid <em>(Prodos: my charecterization)<\/em> errors made by Justice Higgins during the trial, the nature of free speech, how this Blasphemy Law reverses the onus of proof (from innocent until proven guilty, to guilty until &#8220;proven&#8221; innocent), the multicultural and relativist basis of the law, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Catch the fire ministry's defense against charges of Religious Villification\" href=\"http:\/\/catchthefire.com.au\/articles\/insights\/Catch%20The%20Fire%20Ministries%20Submission%20to%20EOC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the powerful and well argued defence submitted by Catch the Fire Ministry. But one which, amazingly, failed to impress the court.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pastor Daniel Nalliah of Catch the Fire Christian Ministry discusses the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act of Victoria, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/SolidVox.com\/pw-danielnalliah01.mp3\">Listen, download or podcast the mp3 audio file of this interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special Note: Pastor Daniel Nalliah has been presented with the Annual International Capitalism Award 2006 for <a title=\"Melbourne Celebrate Capitalism Award 2006\" href=\"http:\/\/Melbourne.CelebrateCapitalism.ORG\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne, Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest: Pastor Daniel Nalliah President, Catch the Fire Christian Ministry Melbourne, Australia Listen, download or podcast the mp3 audio file of this interview Following an official complaint by three members of the Islamic Council of Victoria, Pastor Daniel Nalliah, Pastor Daniel Scott, and Catch the Fire Christian Ministry have been found GUILTY of Religious Villification &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pastor Daniel Nalliah\u2019s Uncompromising Fight to Defend Free Speech<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}