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Nalliah was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was raised in a strongly religious family, and rose through the church ranks from youth leader through to becoming a pastor. He married in 1987, and his two children were born soon after. He continued to preach in the more remote regions of Sri Lanka until 1995, when he and his wife moved to Saudi Arabia. He spent two years preaching Christianity and attempting to circumvent the official ban on the religion in the Muslim state. However, in 1997, he decided to move to Australia and founded his own evangelical organisation.

In the wake of the Black Saturday bushfires, Nalliah claimed he had received "prophetic dreams" on October 21 2008 that these bushfires were a "consequence" of Victoria's decriminalisation of abortion in 2008, prompting criticism from a former Australian Treasurer, Peter Costello, that Nalliah's assertion was "beyond the bounds of decency".

Danny Nalliah successfully defended a law suit commenced by the Islamic Council of Victoria under Victoria's Racial and Religious Tolerance Act and was awarded damages. In this landmark case, along with his colleague Daniel Scot, Nalliah was found not to have incited hatred under Victoria's then-new religious vilification laws. He has also been a candidate for the Family First Party, but was subsequently asked to leave the party.

Scot was born in a village in Pakistan and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Applied Mathematics from the University of Karachi in 1975. In 1976 he was awarded a Master of Science (First Class) from the same university. In 1987 he received a Bachelor of Theology from Gujranwala Seminary.

In 1986 Daniel was charged under the Blasphemy Law 295C in Pakistan after being "convicted" of blasphemy for quoting the Qur'an.[citation needed] Fleeing Pakistan, Scot arrived in Australia where he worked at the University of Queensland.

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