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...Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah, both Pentecostalist Christians, are accustomed to taking risks for their faith. A decade ago, Nalliah, a Sri Lankan-born Australian, narrowly escaped being caught with 400 smuggled Bibles in Saudi Arabia, where preaching Christianity is a crime. Scot, who grew up Christian in Muslim Pakistan, fled to Australia in 1987 after he was charged with blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad, an offense punishable by death. In March 2002, the Catch the Fire Ministries, of which the two men are pastors, held a seminar on Islam in Melbourne. Scot, who presented the course, says...
...Three Muslims attended the seminar and reported what they heard to the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV). Soon afterward, it brought suit against Scot, Nalliah and Catch the Fire under the state's then-new Racial and Religious Tolerance Act. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled last December that the respondents had "made fun of Muslim beliefs and conduct" and made statements "likely to incite a feeling of hatred against Muslims." Last week it ordered the pastors to apologize publicly and banned them from making similar comments anywhere in Australia or online. Nalliah says they will go to jail...
...pastors say they were just telling the truth: most statements the judge found offensive were readings from the Koran and the Hadith, traditional lore about Muhammad. Scot, a lifelong student of these texts, claims his real offense was "talking about the parts of the Koran that Muslims want to hide from people." But ICV director Waleed Aly says the quotes - and references to "a lot of cases overseas that have nothing to do with Australia" - were used to argue "that Muslims in Australia are disposed to violence and terrorism and that Australia faced danger as a result." The Muslims...
...Scot Miller, EAC co-chairman for this past year, was optimistic about the future of renewable energy at Harvard...
...make do with the ritual of public consideration by the press and the university and public apology by the professor, which after all, for people of reputation in a world of reputation, isn’t getting off scot free,” he wrote...