Stone-Throwing Muslims Bloody Christians in Michigan
Officers' actions allowing violence under review in appeals
court by Bob Unruh
The
full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has decided to review a First
Amendment complaint brought by Christians who were assaulted by a rock-throwing
Muslim mob at an Arab festival in Dearborn, Michigan The case arose from the
annual Arab International Festival in June 2012 when Wayne County sheriff’s
deputies stood by while a Muslim mob threw rocks at Christians, bloodying them.
The officers then threatened the Christians with arrest if
they didn’t leave the event.
The Christians brought a lawsuit against Wayne County over
its officers’ actions, and a three-judge panel dismissed it.
The case, shepherded by the American Freedom Law
Center, isn’t the first time that Muslim
mob violence has erupted at the Arab festival. Earlier, a group of Christians
was awarded more than $100,000 in damages because of attacks there.
In the latest case, Robert J. Muise, senior counsel for the
AFLC, called the decision to re-hear “great news for religious freedom and the
freedom of speech.”
“The panel’s [overturned] decision rewards violence over
protected speech and thus incorporates into the First Amendment what is known
as a ‘heckler’s veto.’ We are confident that the full court will reverse this
‘dangerously wrong’ decision,” he said.
The 6th Circuit’s rules note that granting such a re-hearing
is rare.
“A petition for rehearing en banc is an extraordinary
procedure intended to bring to the attention of the entire court a
precedent-setting error of exceptional public importance.”
The dissent from the panel’s decision that earlier had
dismissed the case said: “The majority’s first error is its conclusion that the
First Amendment did not protect [the Christians'] speech. This is not only
wrong, it is dangerously wrong.”
AFLC co-founder David Yerushalmi said the First Amendment
“is under assault by both Muslim supremacists and Islamists on the one hand and
progressives advocating ‘hate-speech’ crimes on the other.”
“The result is a shrinking arena of free speech with
government bureaucrats and cultural and civilizational jihadists dictating what
is and is not acceptable speech,” he said. “Maybe, just maybe, the Sixth
Circuit has decided to draw the line in the sand to protect against any further
encroachment upon the sphere of this First Amendment freedom.”
AFLC said the rock-throwing incident left members of the
evangelism team bloodied while deputies from the Wayne County sheriff’s office
stood by. Then, when Ruben Israel, the leader of the evangelists, asked
officers to enforce the law so that Christians could speak, he was told to
either leave or be arrested.
“Whether you agree or disagree with the Christians’ message,
there is one issue to which there is no dispute: no citizen should be stoned in
a city street in America for exercising his constitutional right to freedom of
speech,” Muise said when the case developed.
“And what makes this case so egregious is that law
enforcement officers were present and made the conscious choice to allow the
Muslim mob to silence the Christian speakers through violence. Indeed, the
video of the incident looks like something you would see in the Middle East,
not in the United States,” he said.
“While it is shocking to see video of Christians being
stoned in the United States for criticizing Islam, it is not necessarily
surprising that this incident occurred in Dearborn, Michigan, a city where the
mayor and law enforcement have consistently violated Christians’ free speech
rights in favor of appeasing a large Muslim population and where, in line with
the Islamic legal dictates of sharia, the Christian Gospel is treated as
criminally offensive speech, and violence ‘for the sake of Allah’ is reinforced
by arresting or removing the Christians. What you are witnessing on the video
is the enforcement of sharia by a hostile mob and law enforcement aiding and
abetting,” Yerushalmi added.
WND
reported only a few months before the
stoning incident that a court had found local officials in Dearborn liable for
$100,000 in damages for arresting a Christian pastor who wanted to hand out
Christian tracts at the same festival in 2009.
Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen then recommend fees and
costs totaling $103,401.96 be awarded in the case, which was handled by
attorney Muise on behalf of Christian Pastor George Saieg.
Muise, at the time, was with the Thomas More Law Center.
Muise also won acquittals on charges of “disturbing the
peace” brought by Dearborn against a group of Christians after they were
arrested in 2010 for a similar kind of speech activity.
See video of the 2012 attack:
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/christians-bloodied-by-stone-throwing-muslims-in-michigan/
Source:
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/christians-bloodied-by-stone-throwing-muslims-in-michigan/
Comments
When Muslims began to invaded the West in 613
AD, they were fought, defeated and expelled. Colonial attempts to “westernize”
Muslims failed. Forced secularization
postponed the attacks until now.
Our current Muslim invasion was created by
our lame Western governments trying to be “politically correct”, so now it
begins again. Multiculturalism doesn’t
work when minorities refuse to assimilate.
Islam is based on and requires non-assimilation. No other group is like
this. Islam is not a religion; it is a political ideology using God as an
excuse for barbarism. All you have to do is to identify those who threw rocks
and deport them back to their country of origin. Recovering Muslim refugees would assimilate
if they moved to the West to flee Muslim barbarism. Mosques should not be allowed to be built in
the West. Western politicians have too short
a memory to remain in office.
See video on Islam Danger by Wild Bill for
America http://www.youtube.com/embed/aYu_bHu6sUc?feature=player_embedded
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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