Saudi’s, Pakistani’s Caught Trespassing at Reservoir Supplying Boston Drinking Water

What could go wrong? via 7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State « CBS Boston.

BELCHERTOWN (CBS) – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.

State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.

If they already graduated what educational interest would they have? Possibly similar to the Muslim biochem student arresting plotting to blow up an Amtrak train a few weeks ago? Or the Muslim arrested in New York last week who Plotted To Poison The Air Or Water Supply?

The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.

State Police say there were no warrants or advisories on any of the individuals and “there was no evidence that the seven were committing any crime beyond the trespassing.”

All seven were allowed to leave and will be summonsed to court for trespassing. The FBI is investigating and routine checks of public water supplies have been increased following the incident.

The seven individuals currently live in Amherst, Cambridge, Sunderland, Northampton and New York City. Police have not released their names because a court date has not been set.

In case you missed it:

Man with altered Saudi passport arrested with pressure cooker at Detroit airport

A man traveling with an altered Saudi Arabian passport was in federal court Monday after a pressure cooker was discovered in his luggage at the Detroit airport over the weekend.

The man, identified in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court as Hussain Al Kwawahir, made his initial court appearance Monday on charges of altering a passport and lying to customs officials.

Two pressure cooker bombs were used in the attacks that killed three people and injured more than 250 others last month at the Boston Marathon.

Al Kwawahir, 33, wasn’t charged with any terrorism-related offenses, however, and U.S. officials told NBC News they were handling the incident as simply a documents case.

The incident occurred Saturday at Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus, Mich., authorities said. When customs officials noticed that a page had been removed from Al Kwawahir’s passport, they examined his luggage and found the pressure cooker, the complaint said.

Al Kwawahir, who was flying into Detroit from Amsterdam, told agents he didn’t know how or why the page had been removed.

FBI surrounds house of Saudi student after sightings of him with pressure cooker pot – only to discover he was cooking RICE

A Saudi student living in Michigan was questioned in his home by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker and called the police.

Talal al Rouki had been cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah and was carrying it to a friend’s house.

An FBI agent said: ‘You need to be more careful moving around with such things, Sir’

It’s getting surreal. Is there a true leader in U.S. government? Anywhere?

Michigan: Police providing Islamic food, permitting hijabs in Michigan jails

Creeping along in Michigan, h/t Bare Naked Islam.

via The Arab American News

Dearborn Heights Police Department now providing halal food to detained Muslims 

DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Local civil rights groups have welcomed the Dearborn Heights Police Department’s recent decision to provide halal food to Muslims who are detained in their custody.

In recent months, members of the Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan has held meetings with the Dearborn Heights mayor and police chief to discuss the need for the City’s police force to better accommodate the community. These meetings have led to the recent halal food accommodation.

CAIR-MI is also seeking similar accommodations from other law enforcement entities in Michigan and says the Police Department’s decision is a testament to recognizing the religious sensitivities of Muslims.

And via Detroit News

Police: Muslim women can keep head covering

After meeting this week with officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Michigan, the Novi Police Department has agreed to allow Muslim women to wear the traditional hijab head covering during detainment. “We welcome the sensitivity shown by the Novi Police Department and look forward to working with them in the future, which will include providing sensitivity trainings,” CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid said in a statement.

Aka, Islamic dawah, lies and indoctrination from a group the federal government named a yet to be indicted co-conspirator in the largest Islamic terror financing conviction in U.S. history. Also banned by the FBI. The Novi Police Department must be well aware of who CAIR is. Ask them politely here.

City of Dearborn Agrees to Apologize for Arresting Christians at Arab Fest

Sharia don’t like it. No apology on their website yet. via Settlement Reached in Lawsuit | AFLC – American Freedom Law Center.

After more than two years of intense motion practice and discovery, the City of Dearborn has agreed to enter into a settlement that includes a public apology for arresting several Christian missionaries who were peacefully preaching to Muslims at the Dearborn Arab International Festival in 2010.  The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) is representing Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, David Wood, and Paul Rezkalla, who were thrown in jail on June 18, 2010, and charged with “breach of the peace” for their free speech activity.

In September 2010, Robert Muise, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, represented the Christians during a five-day criminal trial.  At the end of the trial, the Christians were acquitted by a unanimous jury verdict.  Following the acquittals, fellow AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Muise filed a 100-page, civil rights lawsuit against the City, its mayor, John B. O’Reilly, its chief of police, Ronald Haddad, 17 City police officers, and two executives from the American Arab Chamber of Commerce on behalf Qureshi, Wood, and Rezkalla.  The lawsuit was later amended to add the Arab Chamber as a defendant.  The civil rights complaint alleged that the Christians’ constitutional rights were egregiously violated during the Arab festival.

Just this past week, the City agreed to enter into a settlement, which includes a public apology that will be posted on the City’s website for three years; the removal from the City’s website of a press release and letter from the mayor that contained derogatory comments about the Christians; and a payment to the Christians, the amount of which is confidential.  The legal claims against the Arab Chamber defendants will proceed.

The City’s public apology states as follows:

On June 18, 2010, David Wood, Nabeel Qureshi (co-founders of Acts 17 Apologetics) and Paul Rezkalla were arrested by Dearborn police officers at the Dearborn Arab International Festival (“Arab Festival”), while they were engaging in a peaceful dialogue about their Christian faith with several festival attendees.  Wood, Qureshi, and Rezkalla were subsequently charged with breach of peace, a misdemeanor offense.

The decision to arrest these individuals was based in part on information provided to the Dearborn police by Arab Festival attendees, workers, and volunteers.  When all of the information—including the video captured by Wood, Qureshi, and Rezkalla—was presented to a Dearborn jury, the jury found that these individuals were not guilty of the criminal offense of breach of peace.

The City of Dearborn regrets and apologizes for the decisions to arrest and prosecute David Wood, Nabeel Qureshi, and Paul Rezkalla and the hardship caused to everyone involved.

Through this apology and its acceptance by David Wood, Nabeel Qureshi, and Paul Rezkalla, the parties seek to build a bridge and to confirm to the community that members of all faiths are welcome in Dearborn to peacefully share their views and to engage in religious discussions.

Muise commented, “For too long our clients have been vilified for simply exercising their constitutional right to evangelize on a public street during the Arab Festival.  And despite their acquittal, they continued to be treated as if they had committed a crime.  With this settlement and apology, our clients have been vindicated and this dispute with the City will finally be put to rest.”

Yerushalmi added, “While the dispute with the City is over, there is still unfinished business with the Arab Chamber.  As the City itself noted in its apology, Arab Festival volunteers and workers, who were acting under the guidance and direction of the Arab Chamber and its executive director, Fay Beydoun, and pursuant to the Chamber’s festival ‘rules and regulations,’ are similarly responsible for the violation of our clients’ rights, and we intend to hold them accountable.”

Obama, Holder, Perez, Clinton, et al remained absolutely silent on this issue while simultaneously using the full weight of the federal government to force mosques on local municipalities.

al Jazeera America plans bureaus in 12 U.S. cities

The silent invasion of jihad-supporting Islamists is coming to your state. Aided and abetted by elected officials. via The first 12 Al Jazeera America bureaus – POLITICO.com.

Al Jazeera executives have been touring the country and rolling out announcements of new bureaus ahead of Al Jazeera America’s launch later this year. First it was a bureau in Chicago, today it is a bureau in Detroit. These will join Al Jazeera’s U.S. headquarters in New York and previously announced bureaus in Washington, Miami and Los Angeles, among others.

The network is planning 12 bureaus in all, with plans to add more after the launch. The network has yet to disclose the full list of bureaus — “We don’t comment on rumors. No leases have been signed anywhere,” Stan Collender, an Al Jazeera spokesperson told POLITICO — but a source at the network was kind enough to share it with POLITICO, on background.

The full list (from East to West):

New York

Washington

Miami

Nashville

Chicago

New Orleans

Detroit

Dallas

Denver

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Seattle

Related: Al Jazeera Likely Violating Multiple U.S. Laws

Kincaid and Kenney have documented Al Jazeera’s anti-American propaganda and its many terrorist connections. A few highlights:

• The Emir of Qatar, who owns Aljazeera, recently donated 400 million dollars to Hamas, a State Department designated terrorist group.
• Film footage of captured terrorists in Iraq shows they came to kill Americans because of Al Jazeera.
• NBC News reporter Lisa Myers said: “Why do they go [to fight in Iraq]? Saudis captured in Iraq say it’s because of pictures on Arab television network Al-Jazeera.
• CNN reports that a document found in bin Laden’s compound after his death referred to a meeting with the Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Pakistan.
• The new film, “Zero Dark Thirty,” mentions that the courier who eventually led the CIA to bin Laden was located in Pakistan near an Al Jazeera office in order to get the terrorist leader’s videotapes to the channel for worldwide distribution.
• 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed… was protected by the government of Qatar, which funds Al Jazeera.
• Father of journalist Daniel Pearl, the journalist beheaded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, says, “Al Jazeera is the main propaganda machine of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
• French media openly report that Qatar is supporting the Mali terrorists
• An Al Jazeera story, “Mali: The ‘gentle’ face of al-Qaeda,” reported that the terrorists “are playing the role of humanitarians” by providing food to local people.
• Al Jazeera supports the radical Muslim and far-left campaign to free “Lady al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui, currently serving a life sentence for attempted murder and wife of 9/11 planner Ammar al-Baluchi,.
• In the U.S., the movement to free Siddiqui includes Ramsey Clark, the Workers World Party (WWP) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
• Al Jazeera reporter Tayseer Allouni, was convicted as an agent of al Qaeda.

Are we going to stand for this without a *#+*&@!ing fight? More:

Please call the House Homeland Security Committee and ask that the new chairman, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), open hearings into Al-Jazeera. Call their office at 202-226-8417 and ask Chairman McCaul to investigate Al-Jazeera’s ties to terrorist groups.

http://mccaul.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=133

Dearborn moves Arab fest to keep non-Muslims out

The Freep’s top Islamist wages jihad with the pen in this one-sided propaganda. via Dearborn Arab festival being moved after attendees antagonized | Detroit Free Press | freep.com Niraj Warikoo

After four years of increasing tensions between some Christian missionaries and local Muslims, the annual Arab International Festival in Dearborn is being moved from a street that has open access to a public park that could restrict admission to paid attendees.

Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly said Friday that the city plans to shift the festival — the biggest annual outdoor gathering of Arab Americans in the U.S. — from Warren Avenue to Ford Woods Park, near the corner of Ford and Greenfield roads. One of the reasons for the move is liability concerns; the city has been hit with lawsuits from some Christian missionaries alleging their free speech rights were curtailed at the festival.

“Considering everything we’ve been through and what happened in the past,” said O’Reilly, the city wanted a place “where you can have a controlled site.”

The 18-year-old festival, held in June by the American Arab Chamber of Commerce, promotes Arab-American culture and business along Warren Avenue. Fay Baydoun, executive director of the chamber, said Friday that the group is working with the city on negotiating a price to rent out the park for the three-day festival planned for June 15-17.

There could be an admission fee to enter the park for the festival, which includes carnival games, amusement park rides and numerous vendor booths on Arab-American culture.

The festival has long had Christian missionaries in attendance, and there weren’t any tensions in the past. However, that changed in 2009 after aggressive new groups of missionaries started to arrive. That year, some yelled at festival-goers “that they were going to hell because they were Muslim,” according to a Dearborn police report. Some also brought video cameras and recorded their encounters, which they posted online, sparking complaints about Dearborn’s Muslim population.

The tensions resulted in some Christian missionaries being escorted out. The next year, a group of them were arrested. They were later acquitted after a trial and have filed a lawsuit against the city. Other Christian groups also have filed a lawsuit, saying their First Amendment rights were restricted. Some have said that treatment at the festival proves that Dearborn is under sharia, Islamic law, a claim the mayor repeatedly has dismissed as ludicrous.

Odd, the mayor’s Dearborn Muslims told Christians “Go home”, sharia is coming.

The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office has handled security at the event the past two years. The Dearborn Police Department is expected to handle it this year, O’Reilly said.

The tensions escalated last year after a group called the Bible Believers brought a pig’s head mounted on a pole along with signs that denigrated Islam and its prophet, Mohammed, in explicit terms. Observant Muslims consider pigs to be dirty.

In response, some children got upset and a few hurled objects, including water bottles, at them.

Some children? Let’s check that video Niraj.

Full video of All-American Muslims gone wild at Dearborn Arab fest

More:

O’Reilly said free speech must be respected, but he’s concerned that some groups were trying to provoke young children at the festival with outrageous words and signs.

“We’re not going to tolerate people insulting children, making gross statements … antagonizing children,” he said. “We’re going to make sure kids behave. But we’re also going to make sure that adults behave. Everybody’s got to behave.”

In the past, “no one had any problems,” at the festival, O’Reilly said. But over the past few years, “it became a target for people who have a different agenda. They weren’t here in the spirit of the festival.”

Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and a Dearborn resident, said he supports the move, noting that the Warren Avenue location sometimes got congested.

Majed Moughni, a Dearborn attorney and activist, said he also supports the move. But he said that festival-goers could continue to face hostile speech from some missionaries.

“They can still stand on the city’s sidewalks … or in front of the entrance,” said Moughni, who disagreed with the police arrest of missionaries in 2010. “You can’t violate someone’s free speech.”

 Be careful where you stand, Muslims attempted to kill pedestrians in Dearborn knowing the city would defend them, Dearborn Muslim charged with nine counts of attempted murder, ran down preachers in front of mosque.

At least one judge followed the law. Judge overturns Dearborn’s useful idiots, rules they violated constitutional rights

Michigan: CAIR meets Dearborn school officials to enforce sharia in more public schools

via The Arab American News – CAIR-MI meets Dearborn Public School officials regarding  prayer accommodations. h/t Atlas Shrugs who writes, They are relentless.

DEARBORN — The Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan (CAIR-MI) staff recently met with Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston to discuss concerns from some parents regarding prayer accommodations in Dearborn Public Schools.

Dearborn Public Schools has implemented a policy which fully accommodates student-led prayer in all the schools, as well as unexcused absences for students who leave early on Fridays for Jumu’ah prayers.

CAIR-MI is currently in discussion with Melvindale Public Schools to get similar accommodations for students that are now in place for Dearborn Public Schools.

Unexcused absences for Muslims who leave taxpayer-funded public schools early on Fridays for Muslim prayers? WTF? 

Do not kid yourself. Islamic sharia law is in full effect in areas of the once United States.

Imam re-arrested for criminal sexual contact with a person under 13 in Florida, Michigan

We told you about this pious imam back in 2011 noting he had recently been in Florida and Michigan, where he is now wanted. via Imam acquitted on sex charges re-arrested / Toronto Sun. h/t TROP

A day after being acquitted of sex-related charges, a former Toronto imam was arrested Wednesday for extradition to the United States.

Mohammad Masroor, 50, is wanted in Michigan and Florida on charges of criminal sexual contact with a person under 13, Toronto Police said.

“The offences are alleged to have occurred between 2000 and 2005,” police said Thursday.

Masroor was charged two years ago with sexually assaulting six people between November 2008 and July 2011. He was also charged with threatening death.

At the time of his 2011 arrest, Masroor was an imam teaching the Qur’an to children at an east-end mosque.

The allegations came as a shock to Muslim community members attending the mosque.

On Wednesday, after standing trial on seven sex-related charges, he was acquitted on all counts.

Masroor — of Bangladeshi origin — has been in Canada since 2008, police said.

Officers noted in 2011 that he had also been to a number of other places: Germany, Hungary, Sri Lanka, Singapore, France, Michigan and Florida.

Police said Thursday Masroor is in custody and currently awaiting proceedings that could end with his extradition to the U.S.

 

Federal foster care bill could prevent Muslims being placed with non-Muslim families

One step from the Islamic Adoption Laws recently adopted in Spain. via Societal Health: H.R. 102 the Rehab and Ahmed Amer Foster Care Improvement Act – Miami healthy living | Examiner.com.

In a facebook post dated yesterday, Mrs. Rehab Amer wrote, “Be the voice for the voicelss by informing your representatives to co-sponsor H.R. 102 to protect all innocence nationwide.”

Mrs. Amer and her husband, Ahmed, struggled for two decades after losing three children to a state foster care system in the United States. The Ahmer’s were estranged from their children after they were put in foster care by the state of Michigan’s Child Protective Services, following the accidental death of their two-year-old son Samier in 1985. Samier suffered from a brittle bone disease and died from injuries that he suffered in a fall.

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One of the Ahmer’s estranged children, Mohammed Ali, now goes by the name Adam Stamper after being raised by a Christian family in a foster home apart from his original Muslim heritage. He was one of three children taken away by the state after they accused Mrs. Amer of killing her son Samier. Mrs. Amer was unable to get her kids back and was also pregnant with her fouth child, Zinabe, who was taken away by the state only one day after she was born and after Rehab was already aquitted. The family says that years of neglect, estrangement, and abuse by foster care parents and state officials resulted in the children completely losing touch with their family, as well as their culture and religious background.

Mrs. Amer was able to turn her tragedy into a positive for families across Michigan, however, as she and her family saw the “Amer Act” signed into law in December 2010. The law allows children to be placed with relatives in circumstances such as theirs and for special consideration to be given in regards to religion and culture. Nabih Ayad, a lawyer who filed a civil suit on behalf of the Amers against a Michigan foster home in their case, and many others have spoke about the injustices of the situation, as has the Congress of Arab American Organizations Spokesman Osama Siblani, who originally helped raise funds to aid the Amer’s in their struggle to fight for justice.

The Federal Amer Act Bill was introduced nationwide in June 2012. The bill, if passed, will allow children who are taken away by Child Protective Services the right to live with other family members, instead of being exposed to different environments that could differ from their upbringing. Another highlight of the bill includes keeping the children within the same religious environment that their parents had practiced as well.

This doesn’t bode well for young children born into Muslim families, particularly in honor beating cases.

Update: Yes, this is a bill for Muslims, supported by Muslims:

Undoubtedly, leaving our Muslim children at the mercy of non-Muslims will have a serious effect on their belief.

We must create solutions for taking care of children whose parents cannot take care of them instead of deterring Muslims from taking in foster children and leaving them at the mercy of non-Muslims foster parents or on the street. It is high time we have an Islamic system of foster care whereby the children can be separated into girls and boys facility, the same way we separate among our ‘biological’ children – who are mahrams to one another, as we are commanded by Prophet Muhammad (Sallal Laahu Alaihi Wasallam). Muslims should also support the proposed federal legislation known as the ‘Amer Act’ which allows children taken by Child Protective Services the right to live with other family members, instead of being exposed to environments that differ with their upbringing.

Imam Firdaws Ladan is the Imam of the Ibn Taymiyyah masjid in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

Muslim pleads guilty to threatening effigy-burning Dearborn Muslim

via Suspected terrorist pleads guilty to threatening Dearborn attorney | Wayne County | Detroit Free Press | freep.com.

A suspected terrorist in Ireland pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening a Dearborn attorney over the phone because he held an anti-terrorism rally in Detroit. And he’s now to be extradited to the U.S. to face separate terrorism charges.

Ali Charaf Damache, a native of Algeria who lived in Ireland for several years, admitted to calling Dearborn attorney Majed Moughni in January 2010 after Moughni held an anti-terrorism rally outside the federal courthouse in Detroit during a hearing for the underwear bomber. Moughni, who is Muslim, wanted to send a message that Islam is against terrorism.

“I would put a bullet in your head … when I catch you, you will pay,” Damache told Moughni over the phone, according to a recording of the call. Moughni had testified via video conference from Detroit earlier in the trial, and was glad to hear of the guilty plea.

“I’m pretty relieved,” Moughni said. “We shouldn’t be afraid of those who try to silence people who stand up for freedom.”

After Damache pleaded guilty in Ireland, the judge sentenced him to four years, but suspended one year and released him because of time served, according to Moughni and Irish media reports.

Immediately after Damache left the courtroom, police arrested him again and now plan to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges he was part of international terror plots, including a plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew a negative image of Islam’s prophet.

Another foreign jihad-preaching Islamic terrorist being imported to the U.S.

“As soon as he walked out of the courtroom, the Irish police were waiting for him and escorted him away,” said Moughni, who spoke with police detectives about the guilty plea. “He will be extradited to the United States.”

Damache was charged with making a phone threat and with threatening to kill Moughni, but the latter, more serious charge was dropped because police had conducted a search warrant of a car that a court ruled was improper. The guilty plea was for the phone threat.

In a separate, case, prosecutors say that Damache worked with Colleen LaRose, a woman originally from Romulus who converted to Islam and was known as Jihad Jane. LaRose pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in 2011 and awaits sentencing.

Moughni said he’s glad he held the anti-terror rally after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber, attempted to blow up an airplane descending into Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. In the threatening phone call, Damache told Moughni he was betraying Islam; Moughni said he was defending Islam by organizing the anti-terror rally.

“We stood up on the side of right,” Moughni said. “We stood up for other Americans by protesting against terrorism. We sent a clear message: that most Muslim-Americans are against terror.”

Wait a second. One Muslim protests against terrorism and he represents “most Muslim-Americans” but when thousands of Muslims protest against democracy, free speech, capitalism and America they represent a tiny minority? 

Keep in mind, Moughni is also against free speech. He’s the Dearborn ‘moderate’ Muslim who burned effigies of Florida pastor Terry Jones.

“We’re watching as the holiest book in Islam is under attack,” Moughni said. “This is to show we’re against what pastor Jones is doing. We’re not going to be quiet. We’re going to speak up.”

“When you try to burn the Koran … you are telling the Muslims around the world, this war is a war” against Islam, Moughi said.

By Moughni’s logic, most Muslim-Americans are also against free speech (or in favor of sharia blasphemy laws) and burning effigies of American pastors. All hail the moderate Muslim.

Group pre-emptively asks court to ensure cops protect freedom of speech, not sharia at Dearborn Arab Festival

So this is what it’s come to in areas of the United States where Muslims are a majority?

via Home | AFLC Asks Federal Court to Enjoin Wayne County Sheriff from Restricting Christians’ Right to Freedom of Speech at 2013 Arab Festival in Dearborn, Michigan | AFLC – American Freedom Law Center.

On February 19, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, requesting that the court issue an order preventing the Wayne County Sheriff and his deputies from restricting a group of Christian evangelists from displaying banners and signs with Christian messages on the public sidewalks during the 2013 Arab Festival to be held in Dearborn, Michigan.

The motion is part of a federal civil rights lawsuit that AFLC filed against Wayne County, the Wayne County Sheriff, and two Wayne County Deputy Chiefs on behalf of Bible Believers, a Christian organization; Ruben Israel, the leader of Bible Believers; and two other members of the organization.  Bible Believers and its members engage in street preaching and other First Amendment activities, including displaying signs and banners with Christian messages, throughout the United States.

In 2012, the Christians attended the Arab Festival in Dearborn, Michigan.  While they were walking along the public sidewalks expressing their message, they were viciously attacked by a group of Muslims, who were throwing bottles, rocks, and other debris at the Christians.  The Muslims were also shouting and blowing horns to harass the Christians.  Some of the Muslims spat at the Christians.  Several Christians, including Ruben Israel, were bruised and bloodied by the assault.  The Muslims also shouted profanities at the Christians and mocked the Christians’ faith.  The attack was caught on video, which has since gone viral on YouTube.

Rather than arrest the Muslims for engaging in criminal behavior, Wayne County deputies ordered the Christians to halt their free speech activity and forced them to leave the Arab Festival under threat of arrest for disorderly conduct. 

As AFLC argued in its motion, Wayne County deputies cannot criminally punish the Christians’ speech as a matter of law.  Moreover, the deputies have a duty not to effectuate what is known in First Amendment jurisprudence as a “heckler’s veto” by censoring the Christians’ speech based on a hostile crowd’s adverse reaction to the content of the Christian’s message.  Furthermore, the deputies have an affirmative duty to insure the Christians’ safety and security in the free exercise of their constitutional rights.

The Christians are seeking a preliminary injunction because they want to return to Dearborn during the annual Arab Festival in June 2013 to engage in their free speech activity.  However, they fear that if they do return without a court order protecting them, they will again be attacked by Muslims and forced to halt their speech activity under the threat of arrest for disorderly conduct.

Robert Muise, Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of AFLC, commented: “An injunction is certainly warranted and needed in this case based on the actions of the Wayne County deputies in 2012, which clearly demonstrate that they are intent on suppressing the Christians’ message by joining the violent Muslim mob rather than fulfilling their duty to protect the Christians’ safety and security in the exercise of their constitutional rights.  In short, the Wayne County deputies have chosen to side with Muslim violence rather than protect the constitutional freedoms of Christians.”

Dearborn Muslim Calls for Killing Anti-Islam Protesters

FBI and DOJ are on it right? via Dearborn Muslim Calls for Killing Anti-Islam Protesters.

A recent Dearborn Patch article addressed concerns about the location of the annual Dearborn Arab Festival. For several years, the festival has been held on Warren Avenue.

The local population is divided over whether to move the festival, and, even more importantly, over how Muslims should respond to protesters. The Dearborn Area Community Members Facebook group hosted a discussion about the move, and some of the comments were enlightening. A Muslim named Aboudi Berro suggested moving the festival to an area where protesters could be more easily murdered:

Much more at Answering Muslims.