From the Christian Post
A Nigerian missionary preacher who was charged earlier this year of using “threatening and abusive language” in London for pointing out the links between Islam and terrorism has been acquitted. 62-year-old Oluwole Ilesanmi was charged with an “Islamophobic” hate crime by police over a sermon he preached in June, which attracted the complaints of a Muslim and two political activists.
Ilesanmi reportedly insisted that there was a connection between terrorism and Islam, and said that the Bible is the only truth, urging people to give their lives to Jesus Christ. He was charged by police under Section 5 of the Public Order Act.
Christian Legal Centre’s allied solicitor, Michael Phillips, argued in written submissions before the Crown Prosecution Services that U.K. law grants the pastor freedom of speech. The case was later dropped. That isn’t strictly speaking an aquittal – but as he should never have been charged in the first place it is good that the CPS saw sense before it reached court.
“I am in the United Kingdom to bring back the true message of the gospel that Christians many years ago brought to Nigeria. I have seen firsthand what sadly many Christians have suffered in Nigeria firsthand. It is ironic that I was accused of exactly what the Muslims are doing in my country and so many other countries around the world,” Ilesanmi said after his victory.
“When will the UK wake up and realize that submission to Islam is not the answer, that only the Lord Jesus Christ is the answer to the UK’s problems? I was interviewed, charged and put on trial for being a hate preacher.”
“I have never been such a person, I have only preached about the love of Jesus. But the most loving thing that a preacher can do is tell people the truth not just about the gospel but also about false religions, such as Islam,”
CLC Chief Executive Andrea Williams accused the police in the U.K. of not appearing to understand that street preachers are protected under the law. “We would urge the police to educate their officers so that innocent Christians don’t continue to be arrested.”
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If the UK had a corresponding law against Infidelophobia they would have to lock up half the Muslim population.
So nice to have a bit of good news for once. Blessings on this Nigerian Christian missionary preacher who is doing his best to revive the ‘mother church’ in Britain. Blessings on him for his fearless plain speaking and warnings about Islam (which no doubt arise from bitter experience and daily observation of Jihad as waged by the very large Muslim population in Nigeria, home of the ghastly Boko Haram and scene of much other Muslim aggression and subversion) -‘ Ilesanmi reportedly insisted that there was a connection between terrorism and Islam’. Had the Christian Legal Centre’s solicitor Michael Phillips wished, he could have adduced ex-Muslim atheist Ibn Warraq’s lately-published “The Islam in Islamic Terrorism” as corroboration – in spades! – for the preacher’s truthful assertion.
From the article – “It is ironic that I was accused of **exactly what the Muslims are doing in my country and in so many other countries around the world**” Ilesanmi said..”.
Bless you, brother! Keep right on preaching – keep on preaching the Gospel of Jesus, keep on warning people about the deadliness of Islam. If the Archbishop of Canterbury had real courage, he would invite you to give the Christmas sermon at St Paul’s in London.