Posted on 06/21/2010 10:53:18 AM PDT by Syncro
By Mark Ellis, Senior Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN (ANS) Three Christians were arrested Friday evening at the Arab International Festival as they shared their faith with Muslims. The three were arrested by police as they engaged in intense, but respectful dialog in which they proclaimed their faith in Christ.
I never thought I would see this in America, says Steven Atkins, a resident of Toronto, Canada, who was visiting the festival and observed the incident.
The three arrested include Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, David Woods, and Paul Rezkalla. Dr. Quereshi is co-director of Acts 17 Apologetics Ministries. He holds an MD from Eastern Virginia Medical School and an MA in Christian apologetics from Biola University.
When Dr. Quereshi was arrested I heard people clapping and applauding, and some said Allahu Akbar, Atkins said. There was a crowd of 15-20 people watching the exchange and subsequent arrest.
The festival attracts several hundred thousand Arab Americans each year, and some Christian groups find it an ideal venue for Christian outreach.
This year, the city of Dearborn banned the distribution of Christian literature near the festival. Some accused the city of catering to its large Muslim population when the law was passed. On June 17, a three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency motion on behalf of Pastor George Saieg, allowing him to distribute literature and talk about his faith to Muslims at the festival.
It was an intense discussion, but it was not unruly, Atkins noted. There was no threat of violence, he said. Its becoming more restrictive here than in Canada.
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When Dr. Quereshi was arrested I heard people clapping and applauding, and some said Allahu Akbar, Atkins said. There was a crowd of 15-20 people watching the exchange and subsequent arrest.
It was an intense discussion, but it was not unruly, Atkins noted. There was no threat of violence, he said. Its becoming more restrictive here than in Canada.
We need a missle.
Dhimmitude. Detroit is no longer American.
Ping for later
Our military is fighting the muslims in the wrong countries.
Video?
lawsuit?
What’s next? Sharia Law? Oh, wait. This fits right in with Sharia Law. Never mind.
Are we still waiting to learn what law was violated or does the DPD (Dhimmi Police Department) believe the Disturbing the Peace blanket is big enough to cover their exposed a**es?
Amputate the Muslims. Send them back to their own country.
I doubt the police will give them their cameras back with the video in them
They should have had someone out of the immediate area videoing for them.
no comments from the police?
We need aggressive Conservative politicians that are not sympathetic to terrorist islamic practices.
Every mosque in the USA needs to be searched with bomb sniffing dogs at the same time as a cooridinated task with watches sycronized.
It's an abomination that the Christians were arrested for no reason except for using their God given Constitutional Rights.
On June 17, a three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency motion on behalf of Pastor George Saieg, allowing him to distribute literature and talk about his faith to Muslims at the festival.The police make their statement with the act of the arrests.
Dearborn seems to have pretty much sold out to radical muslim islamic terrorism PC fear.
Political correctness will kill us all.
The constitution guarantees free speech, not freedom from hearing speech you don’t agree with.
So now they have the police on their side, doing their work for them.
I’m not surprised that a corrupt administration would direct the police to illegally arrest innocent people in the furtherance of leftist goals.
I knew that this would happen in the once-great United States.
Segregation has returned to the United States courtesy of the Islamic supremacists.
How much longer before we see signs like these in Dearbornistan?
The article says the cops confiscated the cameras.
The cops will do what their unions tell them to do.
And we know who controls the unions.
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