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. “It’s becoming more restrictive here than in Canada.”
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It really is unbelievable...they totally bent over backwards avoiding all confrontation--weren't handing out leaflets, or anything like that, just low-key voluntary discussion.
Apparently the cops just took any complaint of them at face value...so intimidated were they of the potential for violence by the Muslims....
Here's their testimony as to what happened:
It cannot be said that we were arrested for causing a disturbance, because we did not approach anyone, rather everyone with whom we spoke first approached us. It cannot be said that we were harassing anyone, because the moment anyone said "stop talking to me", we would stop talking to them. And it cannot be said that we were spreading hate speech, because we said virtually nothing about Islam at all. On the contrary, we repeatedly affirmed our love for all Muslims. Whenever I was asked "Why would you love me?" I said "Because Jesus loves you, and he told me to love you."
No hating, no disturbing, no harassing... It remains only to be concluded that we were arrested simply for being Christian Preachers at the Arab Festival in Dearborn.
The muslims in Dearborn have been elected into the government. We got out of Dearborn as fast as we could. I didn’t stay when my husband was out of town. It is really that bad.
Apparently the 1st Amendment has been suspended in Dearborn, and the cops are happy to go along with it.
I find the fact that the (obviously non-Muslim) police are so ready and willing to enforce an unconstitutional "speech code" incredibly disturbing.
They had permission to be there? What were the charges? It doesn’t seem they were trespassing or otherwise disruptive (other than the unwelcome attempt to talk about their faith).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=dearborn
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Good point on the free speach rules.
I saw the two other threads, thanks.
Both in Bloggers, and both a couple of days old.
I thought this story would be worthy of the news forum, so I posted it here.
Do you have a problem with this story being given a lot of coverage?
Thanks for the bump!
The moslem terrorist islamic people have the governments (city, state and federal) scared to death that they will go on a rampage and kill millions of people if they don't cater to their every whim.
Lot of good it will do, islam’s JOB is to kill all except those that convert to the religion of death.
PC will be the death of us if something isn't done about it.
PC will be the death of us if something isn't done about it.
It really will.
Violation of their right to be free of offense. The long lost 11th amendment.
Dr. Nabeel Qureshi attended the Rally for Rifqa Bary in Columbus, Ohio on Nov 16 of last year. I met him briefly at that time.
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