Posted on 11/29/2012 8:24:03 AM PST by Perseverando
A federal judge has ruled that Christian evangelists who were arrested at a Dearborn, Mich., festival sponsored by the Arab Chamber of Commerce can sue the business organization.
“The court finds that plaintiffs do properly allege a civil conspiracy among defendants, including the AACC, to deprive plaintiffs of their constitutional rights sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss,” the court’s ruling said.
It came in a case brought by the American Freedom Law Center on behalf of the Christians. David Yerushalmi, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, said: “The detailed allegations of our 100-page civil rights complaint sets out a pattern of misconduct that had the purpose and effect of depriving our clients of their fundamental constitutional rights.”
The judge, Stephen J. Murphy III, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, granted the AFLC’s request to amend its complaint on behalf of the missionaries “unlawfully arrested for preaching the Gospel to Muslims at the 2010 Arab International Festival.”
Added to list of defendants was the American Arab Chamber of Commerce, the organization responsible for the Dearborn Arab Festival.
It was on June 18, 2010, when four Christian missionaries, Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, David Wood, Paul Rezkalla, and Negeen Mayel, were thrown in jail by Dearborn police officers for peacefully preaching to Muslims at that year’s annual event.
The four were accused of “breach of the peace.” They were ordered to trial, but, represented by Robert Muise, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, they were acquitted.
Then Yerushalmi and Muise brought the civil rights action against the city, mayor John B. O’Reilly, police chief Ronald Haddad, 17 police officers and others.
It accuses sheriff’s officers of siding “with the Muslim mob intent on suppressing the Christians’ speech.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I remember watching that video and I’m happy to hear they have a case.
Jesus Akbar!
Notice in the video that they never show the signs that the evangelists were carrying.
They had all kinds of direct blasphemies against Mohammed and Islam, including pigs heads and pictures of Mo and offensive statements about him.
The police were derelict in their duties, and the evangelists were pelted with stuff. But they did intentionally wade in and pick the fight, and did a lousy job of preaching the gospel of Jesus.
ROP bkmk
I had heard that too, it is one thing to present the Gospel, but another to pick a fight
Now that's a bumper sticker I'd put on my car!
SO if the signs weren’t shown, how do you know what they were carrying?
If you have a link to the signs, why don’t you put it here. If it is an article, you can link it here.
Don’t hold your breath.
Not good enough, Every Public Servant involved in this BELONGS IN PRISON for FELONY KIDNAPPING, See OJ in Vegas.
Sorry, I can’t supply a source. I read it in a news story.
I’m certainly not saying it’s okay what the Muslims and the police did.
That was taken this past June and is not the event in question.
The 4 evangelists where arrested back on June 18, 2010 and all they were doing was trying to pass out Christian literature to the muslims......They were not protesting nor were they carrying signs.......
Their rights were violated by both the muslims and the police who arrested the Christians.......
This years event they did have signs, John 3:16, Jesus is the savior type signs.It doesn’t matter, the fact they were Christians is all that mattered.
This years event they did have signs, John 3:16, Jesus is the savior type signs.It doesn’t matter, the fact they were Christians is all that mattered.
Surely you don’t buy that newspaper source as credible? There will always be counter lies put out by the adversary.
Look at the Christians demeanor during the video. Do they look hate filled or provoking? Do you think if their signs had pigs or showed disrepect to Mohammed that they wouldn’t have been physically attacked and the signs taken and burnt?
Use your common sense. These Christian men were excercising their free speech and sharing the Gospel, which is what Believers are told to do and we do it in love.
The enemy would want to disparage these men, don’t let him use you to do it.
I agree with Fr addict
please provide a link
The arrest this story is about occured in June, 2010. The video at the link took place this past summer and has nothing to do with what this article is about.
A federal judge has ruled that Christian evangelists who were arrested at a Dearborn, Mich., festival sponsored by the Arab Chamber of Commerce can sue the business organization.
What about the jack booted thugs that did the actual kidnapping?
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