Anti-Islam Pastor Daniel Nalliah says his church, Catch the Fire Ministries, is weeks away from building a $2 million church on an industrial lot in Green Stre
THEY call each other brother, but they can’t yet pray as neighbours.et, Doveton.
But he intends to oppose moves to build a mosque next door, promoted by former Afghanistan government minister Khaliq Fazal.
Mr Fazal said the Omar Farooq Mosque, which would include a community centre and car park, would replace the nearby mosque in Photinia Street where the community has met for the past 16 years.
He said that the residential area was now too small to accommodate its 500 worshippers from different countries.
The City of Casey approved plans for the church in July 2011 and planners are now considering the mosque’s application.
Planning manager Duncan Turner said the council would take into account ”local and state planning policy, the impact on industrial land supply, the intensity of the activities, scale of the building and amenity issues such as car parking”.
Mr Fazal, 61, a former minister of public works in Afghanistan, is now a consultant and the public face of those supporting the mosque. ”This is a multicultural country and a multi-faith country. There is a Fijian mosque and a church next to each other on Hallam Road and there is no problem whatsoever.”
When he met Pastor Nalliah for the first time on the barren, weedy Green Street lot the two men shook hands and chatted amicably until Pastor Nalliah said: ”We don’t approve of Nazi ideology but that doesn’t mean that we hate the Germans.
”Frankly,” Pastor Nalliah said, ”I don’t think we can live side by with a mosque next to us based on what’s happening in Europe.”
It is not the first time the pastor has courted controversy. In 2006 Pastor Nalliah was acquitted of a racial vilification charge brought against him and colleague Daniel Scot, by the Islamic Council of Victoria.
In 2009 he blamed Victorian legislation decriminalising abortion for the Black Saturday bushfires and he has appeared in England and the US to decry what he sees as the encroachment of sharia law.
Flyers have been sent to residents in the area from ”a very concerned citizen of the spread of Islam in the west”.
The leaflet, in which Pastor Nalliah has denied any involvement, claimed that in most cases Muslims ”refuse to assimilate into our way of life, the Australian way of life”.
More than 100 people have signed an anti-mosque petition. But Deepa Jacob, 26, who lives two doors down, said her objections were practical not ideological. ”Traffic and noise,” she said, ”nothing else.”
Mr Fazal assured locals that neighbours of the old Photinia street mosque would attest that they would not be disturbed by the call to prayer.
”We don’t have loudspeakers and we don’t want to have loudspeakers,” he said. ”And would the church have a bell?”
Wake up Casey!
If you have eye to see:
Now you see 500 islamic prayers in our community… in another 10 years time you will see 50,000 in Casey!
The issue is not about just building a mosque. Islam is starting to invade this land with long term goal to make Casey and other part of Australia a populated Islamic community. Look what happens to Sydney.
If you have ear to hear:
History will show what the future social and moral implications of Islam brings to this community:
‘Sharia Law’ becomes the norm in this community. Read more the following websites and understand about Islam today in UK and USA:
1. “Growing use of Sharia by UK Muslims”. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16522447
2. “As Islamic extremists declare Britain’s first Sharia law zone, the worrying social and moral implications”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020382/You-entering-Sharia-law-Britain-As-Islamic-extremists-declare-Sharia-law-zone-London-suburb-worrying-social-moral-implications.html
3. “A poll also found 40 percent of Muslims in America believe they should not be judged by U.S. law and the Constitution, but by Shariah standards.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/islamic-law-in-america/
Let us continue to press on to fight the good fight of faith…….. for The Kingdom of God is near.
God Bless Casey !!
You did the right thing Pastor Danny. That religion can become large if you put a tiny space in the area.
GO Pastor Danny. 🙂
Blessings to you and the ministry.
Frank
Hello Sir,
Why do you call the man in the film “brother”? To be a brother, we must share the same father. Our Father who is in heaven is not the father of the Ishmaelites.
To call an unbeliever “brother” is to be supportive of interfaith.
Yasar
I think we should oppose this mosque in the prayer closet.
We are fighting a spiritual battle, and if we are only signing petitions and releasing media announcements, then we have failed to reach these people with the true gospel.
The Koran states that true Christians are identified by their love. I know there are also verses that incite muslims to kill Christians and Jews, but there is another side where they are encouraged to live at peace with them and follow the gospel. That is the dichotomy, 2 totally opposite mindsets.
As Christians we have to show unconditional love this will hopefully be recognised by muslims who don’t have hatred in their hearts and want to know God.
If the mosque is built who is to say God is allowing it so that the anointing power of God floods out of the church into the mosque, converting everyone in it?
Craig
What a great opportunity for the Christians to shine their light if the church and the mosque are next door to each other!
You could organise afternoon teas together and reach out to the Muslims.