CNSNews.com: Two evangelical pastors in Australia convicted of vilifying Muslims say they will go to prison rather than obey a judge's order to apologize.
In a landmark ruling last December, Judge Michael Higgins of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, a body that operates like a normal court of law, found that Danny Nalliah and Daniel Scot had vilified Muslims at a seminar on Islam and in articles published in a newsletter and on the Internet.
He said Scot, a Pakistan-born pastor who addressed the seminar, had done so "in a way which is essentially hostile, demeaning and derogatory of all Muslim people, their god, Allah, the prophet Mohammed and in general Muslim religious beliefs and practices."
Nalliah and Scot had argued that the intention was to help Christians understand Islam, based on references to the Koran and other Islamic texts.
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Pastors who 'vilified' Islam would choose jail over apology
