Controversial clergyman tells audience “people say there are good Muslims in Britain — that may be so — but I don’t trust them”
Police have launched a probe into a a potential hate crime after an outspoken evangelical pastor defended describing the Islamic faith as “satanic” and a “doctrine spawned in hell”.
Senior Pastor James McConnell made the remarks as he addressed his congregation at the Whitewell Tabernacle Metropolitan Church on Sunday evening.
They were described as “very offensive”, “hurtful” and “irresponsible” by a representative from the Belfast Islamic Centre.
Well of course the complainant would be a Muslim,we should expect no less! But the fact remains that this devout Christian ,although outspoken and perhaps, as some might perceive ,controversial,should be allowed his opinion and the right to freedom of speech and freedom of belief.
To pursue this Godly man through the courts, or to vilify him in any way through the media, is an infringement of his basic human rights.
Hate preachers from the Muslim faith have said far worse and have spewed vitriol in public places with speeches that have been tantamount to incitement to violence and have enjoyed the protection of law enforcers.
This man deserves nothing short of the same!
What a fantastic brave and honest man this preacher is, here we have a man who is not afraid to speak the truth, he is a man of God who told his congregation that Islam is evil. A man is allowed to tell the truth in his own Church surly. Christianity came first, and in the gospel of John Ch 1 V 1 say's. In the beginning was the word (Jesus) and the word was with God, and the word was God.
In John Ch 3 v Jesus says, unless a man is born again, he can not enter the kingdom of God.
Also in John Ch 3 v 16 say's. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that who believes in him (Jesus) will have everlasting life.
From the beginning of time, it has always been God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. the trinity 3 in 1.
You will always get the one's who mock the trinity by saying how can it be 3 in 1, don't talk rubbish, so i always tell them something that really makes them think.
I say, first you get an empty glass and put it on the table, then pour some water in to the glass, then take a couple of ice cubes and drop them into the glass, and then get some steam from the iron or a boiling pan and put some of the steam in to the glass and cover the top. What you have in that glass, is 3 in 1, the water, the ice cubes which is water, and the steam, which is also water, they are all water but in different forms, but they are still all one.
It seems Mohammed didn't like the message of the bible which is all about love and to .follow Jesus to have eternal life in Heaven. So Mohammed wrote his very own evil book, called the Koran, he also made up a false God and he called him Allah. Mohammed told the people that Allah had told Mohammed that it's ok to kill anyone who is a Christian, and it is alright to molest children from a very early age, he told the people that Allah had told Mohammed that it is alright to have intercourse with 9 year old girls, he also told the people that it's alright to rape women, and it's alright to kill their wives and to call it an honour killing, Mohammed also said it is ok for Muslim men to also kill their daughters for the least little thing.
So Pastor James McConnell has spoke the truth about Islam, and the police are now looking in to it, but the one person who told the police about this video, is a Muslim low life.
I hope the people who see this short video, take in everything the pastor say's. The Christian faith comes from Jesus Christ and the Bible comes from God. Islam comes from a pervert and a paedophile, and the Koran comes from the devil.
There has also been an outcry on social media, with some calling for a police investigation into his comments.
One posted: “If this was a Muslim Imam speaking about Christianity, he would be arrested for inciting hatred.”
During his sermon, the clergyman said: “Islam is heathen, Islam is satanic, Islam is a doctrine spawned in hell.”
He also likened Muslims to the IRA, saying there were cells spread right across the UK.
When contacted by the Belfast Telegraph last night, the pastor said he stood over his remarks.
When asked why he made the comments, he said “because it is against the holy scriptures”.
“The Bible says there is one God the father and one Lord Jesus Christ and that is what I believe and that is what Christianity is all about.”
Raied Al-Wazzan from the Belfast Islamic Centre said: “I wonder what knowledge he has about Islam to say all of that.
“Has he met any Muslims and discussed these things with them?
“We respect Jesus and Noah and Moses as much as we respect prophet Mohammed.
“And you will never find any Muslim who will say any bad words about Jesus.
“I would like to invite him to a debate to see the Muslim point of view.
“Maybe he has been affected by the media these days because there is a lot of bad reports about Muslims and linking that with terrorism – he is mixing some of the political issues here with religion.
“I’m aware there are some Muslims using Islam for the sake of political view – but that doesn’t mean all Muslims approve of that.”
Against the backdrop of the recent surge of hate and racial crimes across Northern Ireland, Pastor McConnell denied that his comments were “irresponsible”.
He said: “I do not teach my people to have hate policies or to go and hurt people – definitely not.”
He added: “Anybody that comes to our church sees the love that is in our church and the welcome in our church, sees the kindness in our church.
“We have helped people from Islam. We have helped them financially, we have helped them in other ways. We are not against them but we are against what they believe.
“If they had their way, I believe we would be persecuted even in Northern Ireland and particularly in Britain.”
Also in his sermon, the minister told his congregation: “Now people say there are good Muslims in Britain – that may be so – but I don’t trust them.”
He told the Belfast Telegraph: “Islam is allowed to come to this country, Islam is allowed to worship in this country, Islam is allowed to preach in this country and they preach hate.
“And for years we are not allowed to give a tract out, we are not allowed in Islam, we are not allowed to preach the gospel.
“We are persecuted in Islam if we stand for Jesus Christ.”
Pastor McConnell said people had said they were pleased he had “stood up for the Christian faith”.
“I think this is the first call I have got about people (being) shocked,” he said. “Nobody else has phoned me about it.
“I got a lot of comments saying people were pleased that I took a stand and people were pleased that I stood up for the Christian faith.
“The sermon I preach is on the internet and you can get it.
“The bible talks about the doctrines of devils and the bible also says that the devil can appear as an angel of light – he’s not a person with horns and a big tail.
“The devil is a fantastic looking creature. He was the anointed cherub and he was cast out of heaven. These people are believing in doctrines of devils.”
Whitewell Church was founded in 1957 and started with just 10 people – it has now increased to a capacity of more than 2,500.
Pastor McConnell’s congregation has included politicians like Peter and Iris Robinson, Sammy Wilson, and leading figures from the world of sport.
Extracts from speech
The Muslim religion was created many hundreds of years after Christ. Mohammed the Islam prophet was born around the year AD 570 but Muslims believe that Islam is the true religion dating back to Adam and that the biblical patriarchs were all Muslims including Noah and Abraham and Moses and even our Lord Jesus Christ.
Today we see powerful evidence that more and more of Muslims are putting the quorums’ hatred of Christians and Jews alike in to practice.
Now people say there are good Muslims in Britain — that may be so — but I don’t trust them.
Enoch Powell was right and he lost his career because of it.
Enoch Powell was a prophet and he told us that blood would flow in the streets and it has happened.
Fifteen years ago Britain was concerned of IRA cells.
Right throughout the nation they done a deal with the IRA because they were frightened of being bombed.
Today a new evil has arisen — there are cells of Muslims right throughout Britain — can I hear an amen? [congregation amen]
Right throughout Britain and this nation is going to enter into a great tribulation and a great trial.
To judge by some of what I have heard in the past few months, you would think that Islam was little more than a variation of Christianity and Judaism.
That so, Islam’s ideas about God, about humanity, about salvation are vastly different from the teaching of the holy scriptures.
Islam is heathen, Islam is satanic, Islam is a doctrine spawned in hell.