Islamic Law Comes to Dearborn

Human Events ^ | 6/23/10 | Pamela Geller

[reaganrevolutionin2010]

Is it illegal to preach Christianity to Muslims in America now?

Acts 17 Apologetics, a Christian evangelistic group, was banned from passing out fliers at this year’s Arab Festival in Dearborn, Mich., but they went to the festival anyway and ended up getting arrested.

On Saturday, I got this message from David Wood of Acts 17: “Muslims threatened to kill Nabeel [Qureshi, an ex-Muslim and David’s colleague] and me if we showed up again at Arab Fest in Dearborn, so we went there yesterday. They didn’t kill us. Instead, police arrested us and we got to spend a night in jail (along with two others who were video recording us).”

Wondering if they were arrested for passing out fliers in defiance of the ban, I asked David about the ban. He answered, “Yes, we’re banned from handing out literature, but we didn’t do that. We followed the rules, and still got thrown in jail. They flat out lied about us. We can prove they lied with the video footage (just like last year), but the police took our cameras and won’t let us have the footage. There’s major oppression of anyone who criticizes Islam.”

Last year, Nabeel, David and friends went to the Arab Festival and filmed a video that went viral. It is amazing to see in that video what happened in America. It was free speech under siege.

Nabeel and David were harassed and intimidated, aided and abetted by law enforcement.

[Broker]

Is Dearborn in practice an Apartide City?

[bamahead]

I've been meaning to ping to this story, but FR downtime got in the way. Here is some more background: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2538254/posts



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[FBD]

Henry Ford originally brought the Muslim Arabs into Dearborn, cheap labor for his plant. We have him to thank for this mess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UUIdvfUZe0

[eleni121]

True—Ford has a lot to answer for—but most of the original immigrants were not muslims but rather Christian Arabs.

And Christian Arabs whether Lebanese or Chaldean etc assimilate. Muslims do not. And they keep coming...

[LibertyRocks]

I remember what happened last year — it was scary. Now, with the police confiscating their videotapes and such I wonder if the truth will come out regarding their right to defense against any of the charges pending against them. I would HOPE the video has been taken in as “evidence”, that it is not tampered with, and that it will be made available to their defense lawyer(s).

I’m glad they weren’t killed, but it’s sad that they were arrested. I’d really LOVE to see what happened... If it went down at ALL like what happened last year they didn’t do anything wrong, well nothing illegal. If it’s a public event then they have just as much right to be there as everyone else. And, they have just as much right to speak on whatever subject they wish as well.

I’ll be praying for them, and indeed all Christians who face persecution in one way or another.

[LibertyRocks]

Cool. I’m glad they got the footage back. Thanks for the link. Going to go check it out now...

[LibertyRocks]

"Police Chief Ronald Haddad was recently appointed to serve on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, which provides advice and recommendations to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on matters related to homeland security."

Isn't that the exact same Advisory Council that Nidal Hassan (sp?) was a member of? Are these people that daft? (I know... the answer is "Yes, they are").

In WWII the US (shamefully) incarcerated American Citizens of Japanese descent for fear of sabotage from 'within'. Now we are in a war and those who could definitely be siding with our enemy are being INVITED to give recommendations meant to keep us SAFE?

These people are all CRAZY!!! Why not just publish all our 'plans' in the NY Times and dispense with the 'show'? (Oh, yeah... They're doing that already, too!)

[Mrs. Don-o]

Other articles posted to FR say they were on a public sidewalk.

I don't care whether their literature was about Christianity, Tea Parties, Jenny Craig or Zoroastrianism. If they're just standing on a public sidewalk handing out literature, those who want it can say "Thank you" and those who don't can say "No, thank you."

Not "You're under arrest."

Perhaps the Dearborn cops don't know Jack Chick about the First Amendment.

[FBD]

hey thanks for the info! I did not know the Arabs that Ford originally brought into Dearborn were Christians.

[GraceG]

“Perhaps the Dearborn cops don’t know Jack Chick about the First Amendment. “

Nice Pun taken in context, AWESOME!

[Mrs. Don-o]

:o)

[eleni121]

Ford bringing in immigrants-—I wish I knew how that whole process happened.

[mewzilla]

BTTT.

[Popman]

Islamic Law Comes to Dearborn

Not to be too picky, but this story isn't about Islamic law being imposed in Dearborn (not yet at least) it's about political correctness and craven cowardliness by Dearborn authorities.

If Islamic Law did in fact come to Dearborn, we would have martyrs not Christians being arrested.