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It was this sermon in 2014 that landed Pastor McConnell in court. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Now people say there are good Muslims in Britain, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
that may be so, but I don't trust them. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
But it wasn't just what he said - it was the fact the sermon | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
The judge accepted Pastor McConnell thought he was preaching | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
to his congregation and not the whole internet. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
But he said he words caused him to lose the run of himself | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
and he should be more careful in the future. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
That was one particular message I've preached. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Look at the thousands of messages I have preached and had listened to | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
and I've even said worse things than that and it has gone out. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Elsewhere in the sermon, Pastor McConnell's criticism | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Islam is heathen, Islam is satanic, a doctrine spawned in hell. | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
And while the judge said he was absolutely entitled | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
to criticise another faith, he'd not set out clear reasons why - | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
instead he said he'd indulged in nothing more than | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
Judge McNally said if a Muslim had described Christianity in the same | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
way, there would have been such a tornado of abuse it would make | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
the reaction to Pastor McConnell's words look like an April shower. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Members of his congregation have supported him throughout. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
His solicitor said the trial had taken its toll | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
You can only expect justice in the next world, but on this | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
occasion the law and justice have come together, this gentleman has | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
taken a principled stand, he has carried the can for this | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
to the detriment of his health for nearly two years and he is to be | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
congratulated, we are greatly relieved that justice was done. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
A statement from the Belfast Islamic this afternoon said: | :01:53. | :02:05. | |
As he left, Pastor McConnell thanked his supporters and said | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
he would continue to spread the word of God around the world. | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
On Good Morning Ulster tomorrow on BBC Radio Ulster, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
there'll be an interview with a Muslim cleric who travelled | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
to Belfast to support Pastor McConnell. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
The Rivers Agency says the level of Lough Neagh is at a 30-year high | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
For more than a week, agency workers have been | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
pumping water away from homes along the shore. | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Our agriculture and environment correspondent | :02:36. | :02:36. | |
Several rivers converge at Derrytresk near Coalisland | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
That's a lot of water and much of it has backed up | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
That's meant misery for the people living in a few houses who've relied | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
on the sandbags and pumps provided by the Rivers Agency | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
No water has got in yet, but it has been close, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
as 72-year-old Jimmy Quinn explained. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Only for the bags and the pumps, it would be it. | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
It's not looking well when the swans are going by the window, | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Further west and in Fermanagh, the Agriculture Minister took | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
to a tractor to navigate flooded roads that have isolated around | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
a dozen homes at Inishroosk, near Lisnaskea. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
This has been the only way in and out of this community | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Among the people she met, Gerry McManus, whose | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
She's 87 and needs care four times a day. | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
Can't get in, so I take time off work and look after her. | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
To give you a sense of the scale of flooding, | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
It is normally about 45 square kilometres but is now | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
It is clear to me there are other things we need to look at | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
In the past, in '09 some roads were raised by about a metre, | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
now two metres in some instances but you can see those roads | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
are underwater again, so has it been raised high enough? | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Those are questions for another time. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
For now, the people of Fermanagh and around the shores of Lough Neagh | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
must pull together to get through the immediate difficulties. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
And with the prospect of more rain, there's not much sign of the roads | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
The woman who died in a two-car crash in County Down yesterday | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
She was well known in and around Donaghadee, | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
The collision happened on the A2 dual carriageway | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Belfast City Council has voted to invite the Northern Ireland | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
and the Republic of Ireland soccer squads to a joint reception at City | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Hall to mark their qualification for the Euro finals. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
A unionist move to include England and Wales | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
The Northern Ireland team has already been to City Hall | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
to mark their qualification for the finals. | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
However, that was before the Republic also qualified. | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
That led to an SDLP motion to bring both teams to City Hall for a joint | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
reception to honour their unique double qualification. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
During tonight's council meeting unionists argued the motion | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
was a controversial gimmick and it was politicking | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
by nationalists in the run-up to this year's elections. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
But the DUP and Ulster Unionist amendments were defeated | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
Northern Ireland qualified first and the Republic qualified two weeks | :05:54. | :06:06. | |
after, so it is about bringing people together, welcoming people it | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
is a unique situation and we should appreciate the achievement may never | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
be seen again. It could be more appropriate to write to England, | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, congratulating | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
all teams on qualifying because to try to hold any event, logistically | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
that will be difficult. There are people in Belfast that support the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and support both. We were | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
disappointed that some politicians use this to make political gains but | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
are delighted that tolerance and common sense revealed. The final | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
details of the invitations are still to be worked out, but the closer we | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
get to the finals in France, it would appear that there will be less | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
likelihood of getting both teams together at City Hall. | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
Rugby, and the winger Tommy Bowe has ruled himself out | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
Speaking tonight at an Ulster rugby supporters event, he said | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
he won't recover in time from recent knee surgery. | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
There is no point rushing it, it will take what time it takes and at | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
the minute to be back for the start of February will be pretty unlikely. | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
The latest weather prospects now, with Barra Best. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
The rain has eased off for most of us and it will be a dry if chilly | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
night. Temperatures in the countryside will fall to below | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
freezing. For some of us tomorrow morning there may be a hatcher | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
frost, also fog which may cause visibility issues first thing. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Tomorrow there will be heavy rain later in the day but to begin with | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
we expect a dry start for much of us, maybe the odd patch of wet | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
weather across Antrim and County Down, not commenting too much, in | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
fact it is a good start to the day, maybe boggy conditions in the Irish | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Midlands, not bad for England and Wales but up on the east coast we | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
see showers and for western Scotland much better. Across Ireland it will | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
go downhill as the next band of rain pushes in by mid afternoon, reaching | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
Northern Ireland around tea-time and eventually that will push its way | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
across all places. Some of it will be heavy and last for up to nine | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
hours in places, so the Met Office has issued a weather warning, there | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
could be flooding and disruption. Most of that will clear away in time | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
for Thursday, it may be a cold day but drier and sunshine to look | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
forward to but also scattered showers. It will be a similar | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
picture for Friday and | :08:55. | :08:56. |