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'Allahu Akbar!' shouted as Christians cuffed Witness: 'I never thought I would see this in America'
WND ^ | June 21st, 2010

Posted on 06/22/2010 9:29:06 AM PDT by TaraP

Four Christians were arrested and thrown out of a public Arab festival in Michigan – and at least two people claim a crowd cheered "Allahu Akbar!" while the Christians were led away in handcuffs for doing nothing more than engaging in peaceful dialogue and videotaping the event.

Nabeel Qureshi, David Wood, Paul Rezkalla and 18-year-old Negeen Mayel attended the 15th annual Dearborn Arab International Festival on June 18 in Dearborn, Mich., where an estimated 30,000 of the city's 98,000 residents are Muslim.

The American Arab Chamber of Commerce announced the event was expected to draw "over 300,000 people from across the country, Canada and the Middle East." The festival covers 14 blocks and is free and open to the public.

Qureshi and Mayal are former Muslims who are now Christians. Mayal's parents emigrated from Afghanistan. Wood is a former atheist. All are from a Christian group called Acts 17 Apologetics.

In the following video after the arrest, Qureshi said his group took "extra precautions" to prevent disruptions by not handing out pamphlets and to speak only to people "who first approached us":

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: aclu; crushislam; dearbornistan; islam; islamicfascism; islamicimperialism; islamofascism; michigan; proislamist; unconstitutional; wherestheaclu
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1 posted on 06/22/2010 9:29:08 AM PDT by TaraP
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Here is the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ylk_Jh5PNc&feature=player_embedded


2 posted on 06/22/2010 9:30:43 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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'Allahu Akbar!' shouted as Christians cuffed [PERIOD GOES HERE!!!] Witness: 'I never thought I would see this in America'
3 posted on 06/22/2010 9:31:39 AM PDT by montag813 (http://www.StandWithArizona.com)
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To: TaraP

Well its still kinda a free country now and free speech is kinda of defended. So why complain?


4 posted on 06/22/2010 9:32:22 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: TaraP

24”The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28’For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

29”Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill. 30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”


5 posted on 06/22/2010 9:35:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Would it be defended if the Christians had brandished cartoons of Allah?


6 posted on 06/22/2010 9:36:19 AM PDT by MarkeyD (Obama is a victim of Affirmative Action)
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To: TaraP

We have a crypto-Muslim chief executive and Christians are surprised at being treated as Dhimmis? Really? Welcome to the caliphate, now down on your knees!!


7 posted on 06/22/2010 9:38:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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So let me see if I get this straight, the Westboro Baptist people can stand outside funerals for soldiers and Amish children and shout all sorts of vile things but Christians standing outside a muslim event who only talk to people who approach them is a criminal act? The devil indeed does control our courts and law enforcement...only the demonically influenced are allowed to have a public presence.
8 posted on 06/22/2010 9:39:23 AM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to leave in the hands of the government.)
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Exactly!

Demonic Forces are out in full swing!


9 posted on 06/22/2010 9:40:35 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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bookmark


10 posted on 06/22/2010 9:40:35 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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"doing nothing more than engaging in peaceful dialogue and videotaping the event"

There is the problem.


11 posted on 06/22/2010 9:42:55 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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“Sue the bastards”


12 posted on 06/22/2010 9:43:16 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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There is no freedom under islam.


13 posted on 06/22/2010 9:50:50 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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There is no freedom of speech and no freedom of religion under sharia law.
14 posted on 06/22/2010 9:51:39 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Westboro Baptist is not a Christian organization. It is a Democrat lawyer cabal.

They find it in their manifest to protest Iraq war funerals because they oppose the war yet they cannot witness to muslims in Dearbornistan.

They certainly didn’t avoid Michigan because they don’t like legal fights.


15 posted on 06/22/2010 9:53:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: montag813

LOL!!! I thought some Christians cuffed a Jehovah’s witness and couldn’t figure out who would be shouting “Allahu Akbar”


16 posted on 06/22/2010 9:55:53 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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Constitutional violation?

And yet Phelps freely disrupts the funerals of our Country’s fallen heroes.

This is sick crap.


17 posted on 06/22/2010 9:57:15 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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Dearbornistan
18 posted on 06/22/2010 10:02:02 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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This is billed as an “Arab Festival”, not a Muslim festival. Not all Arabs are Muslims so everyone should have been welcomed.


19 posted on 06/22/2010 10:03:28 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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20 posted on 06/22/2010 10:08:42 AM PDT by PMAS
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