Judge: Christian evangelists can sue Muslims: Arab Chamber of Commerce runs festival...

WND ^ | November 28, 2012 | unknown

[Perseverando]

A federal judge has ruled that Christian evangelists who were arrested at a Dearborn, Mich., festival sponsored by the Arab Chamber of Commerce can sue the business organization.

“The court finds that plaintiffs do properly allege a civil conspiracy among defendants, including the AACC, to deprive plaintiffs of their constitutional rights sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss,” the court’s ruling said.

It came in a case brought by the American Freedom Law Center on behalf of the Christians. David Yerushalmi, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, said: “The detailed allegations of our 100-page civil rights complaint sets out a pattern of misconduct that had the purpose and effect of depriving our clients of their fundamental constitutional rights.”

The judge, Stephen J. Murphy III, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, granted the AFLC’s request to amend its complaint on behalf of the missionaries “unlawfully arrested for preaching the Gospel to Muslims at the 2010 Arab International Festival.”

Added to list of defendants was the American Arab Chamber of Commerce, the organization responsible for the Dearborn Arab Festival.

It was on June 18, 2010, when four Christian missionaries, Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, David Wood, Paul Rezkalla, and Negeen Mayel, were thrown in jail by Dearborn police officers for peacefully preaching to Muslims at that year’s annual event.

The four were accused of “breach of the peace.” They were ordered to trial, but, represented by Robert Muise, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, they were acquitted.

Then Yerushalmi and Muise brought the civil rights action against the city, mayor John B. O’Reilly, police chief Ronald Haddad, 17 police officers and others.

It accuses sheriff’s officers of siding “with the Muslim mob intent on suppressing the Christians’ speech.”

[FateAmenableToChange]

I’m fairly certain this is a website, with lots of video, by one of the protesters. Contrary to some of the comments, there’s no indication that the evangelists were carrying signs or attempting to do anything other than witness. Don’t fall for taqiyya.

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/p/dearborn.html

[TomasUSMC]

Freedom of Speech is not there to protect pleasant speech, because pleasant speech doesn’t need protecting. It is disturbing treasonous outlandish speech...such as our Constitution’s writers spoke, that must be protected.

If the moslums had paraded in front of a Christian Festival with signs saying KILL CHRISTIANS, their would have been a wall of police around them protecting them.