Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn, MI

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  1. ABM

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    ...especially during the annual Arab Festival! (PS: Dearborn is largely a Muslim community...Muslim leadership...)



    [video=youtube;Smw9QuH1xkA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smw9QuH1xkA[/video]
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    http://www.freep.com/article/201206...ead-taunt-Arab-Americans-at-Dearborn-festival

    Tensions flared Friday evening at the annual Arab International Festival in Dearborn as members of some Christian missionary groups — including one called the Bible Believers — taunted Arab Americans with a pig’s head and signs that promoted hatred of Islam.

    “You’re gonna burn in hell,” one missionary shouted at a group of young Arab-American boys listening to him speak on Warren Avenue, where the festival takes place.

    The festival continues today in Dearborn, but the members of the Bible Believers won’t be there because they’ll be protesting a gay festival in Ohio, said Arab Festival organizers.

    The three-day festival is the largest public gathering of Arab-Americans in the U.S.; it has drawn Christian missionaries for years, but in 2009, some become more aggressive, leading to arrests and legal feuds. Dearborn has the highest concentration of Arab-Americans in the U.S., many of them Muslim, making it a magnet for some Christian missionaries.

    The Bible Believers also protested at last year's Arab Festival, holding up both anti-Muslim and anti-Catholic signs and causing one Arab-American Muslim girl to cry.

    About a dozen with the group stood facing the festival on Friday with signs that made bigoted remarks about Islam and its prophet, Mohammed. One of the missionaries had a pig’s head mounted on a pole that he displayed in front of his group. Muslims don’t eat pigs because their faith teaches that the animal is unclean.

    Some of the signs the missionaries held read: "Islam is a religion of blood and murder" and "Muhammad (Islam's prophet) is a ... liar, false prophet, murderer, child molesting pervert."

    Wayne County sheriffs tried to keep the peace; a few times, three officers on horseback rode by, trying to keep the young Arab Americans at a distance from the Christian missionaries.
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    Who cares?

    These guys are wimps. Complied with anything the officer said without hesitation. Keep video taping, find out the actual law. They just look like dumb pussies.
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    Gotcha journalism. The provacateurs/instigators clearly waded into a Muslim celebration only to disturb the peace.

    Let's see what happens when militant Muslims proselytize at a Christian festival in the South.
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    Oh, there's no doubt you'll be able to dig up all kinds of fringe behavior. What I showed in the OP, though, was what happened when absolutely peaceful Christians attempted to hand out literature.....something that would be totally legal in any other US city.
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    Uh huh.
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    Convenient use of the word, "militant". Would they be arrested? Hmmm................
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    Militant means you're not being nice and intellectual and yielding. You're fiercely arguing your point. I was hypothesizing Muslims with an attitude like these Christians, barging in to put on a rude show.
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    The point is, they were arrested. Arrested for...???
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    I already guessed at disturbing the peace. If I carry this thread another 4 or 5 pages, I'll have to actually watch the video, which will empower me like eating my spinach.
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    and if the situation was reversed...
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    This particular religious harassment has been going on for years.

    http://www.youtube.com/results?sear....0.0.0.42.202.5.5.0...0.0...1ac.1.h_1M7YOHHns

    I'm an atheist so my only horse in the race is the protection of everyone's civil rights.

    The only rights I see being infringed are the rights of the Dearborn muslims to be left the fuck alone.
     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    Most people don't understand what the ACLU does for them.

    http://www.aclufightsforchristians.com/

    THE ACLU FIGHTS FOR CHRISTIANS

    The ACLU fights just as hard for INDIVIDUAL free exercise of religion as the ACLU fights against GOVERNMENT endorsement, sponsorship, or establishment of religion. Despite this fact, many people spread misinformation about the ACLU around the internet, innocently and maliciously, falsely claiming the ACLU is anti-religion or anti-Christian.

    This list of FACTS counteracts that misinformation. These links represent just a few of the many examples of the ACLU defending the free speech and free exercise rights of Christians (for purposes of this list, the word “Christian” means a person who self-identifies as “Christian”).

    In every example, the ACLU is defending the right of a Christian to speak as a Christian or to practice Christianity.

    Here is the current version of this EVER GROWING list:

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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2012/07/aflc-civil-rights-lawsuit-christians.html

     
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    Re: Apparently, It's Against The Law To Distribute Christian Literature In Dearborn,

    Well, ain't that just awesome. Maybe they'll do the right thing, then, and step in on behalf of the Dearborn Christians. :clap:
     

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