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I heard about this last night on CDC's As It Happens program
this time in Dearborn MI. he "claimes" that the city is under Islamic Sharia Law and he is going to protest in front of the 4 Mosques in that city.
It also seems that this "idea" has been picked up upon and heavily run with by the ultra-conservative wackos and taken VERY seriously by some state legislators who have proposed anti-Sharia bills in several states including OK and TX
Article from the Detroit Free Press
an article from MLIVE (Michigan Live I assume)
A Detroit Fox TV station news article
this is how it apparently "started"
one of the articles basically says this and I tend to agree ----- why give this nut job the time of day. al you are doing is writing up recruiting posters for the extreamist outside of the US. most of the US Muslims could care less what this nut job does.
this is a video of some guys doing a take off comedy type thing (they are from the Dearborn area)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=DwouTyiBrTY
this time in Dearborn MI. he "claimes" that the city is under Islamic Sharia Law and he is going to protest in front of the 4 Mosques in that city.
It also seems that this "idea" has been picked up upon and heavily run with by the ultra-conservative wackos and taken VERY seriously by some state legislators who have proposed anti-Sharia bills in several states including OK and TX
Article from the Detroit Free Press
an article from MLIVE (Michigan Live I assume)
A Detroit Fox TV station news article
this is how it apparently "started"
The idea that Dearborn is under Shari'a grew in popularity after an incident in June 2009 at the Arab International Festival in Dearborn, the largest Arab-American festival in Michigan. At the event, some Christian evangelists yelled at passersby "that they were going to hell because they were Muslim," according to a Dearborn police report.
But a video recorded by a Christian missionary group called Acts 17 Apologetics showed them being escorted out by security guards during the festival. It has now drawn more than 2 million views on YouTube, making it the most popular video on Dearborn.
Some Christians -- including a Marlette man who initially organized Friday's protest -- point to that video as proof that Dearborn is under Shari'a.
Last year at the Arab festival, the same missionaries were arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, leading to another uproar. They were later acquitted by a jury and filed a lawsuit against the city.
Their experiences have been used by conservatives to slam Dearborn. In July, Gingrich, the former House speaker, wrote:
"This is a clear case of freedom of speech and the exercise of religious freedom being sacrificed in deference to Shari'a's intolerance against the preaching of religions other than Islam."
Gingrich said the missionaries were handing out copies of Christian literature, which is "of course, forbidden by Shari'a's rules on proselytizing."
But a video recorded by a Christian missionary group called Acts 17 Apologetics showed them being escorted out by security guards during the festival. It has now drawn more than 2 million views on YouTube, making it the most popular video on Dearborn.
Some Christians -- including a Marlette man who initially organized Friday's protest -- point to that video as proof that Dearborn is under Shari'a.
Last year at the Arab festival, the same missionaries were arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, leading to another uproar. They were later acquitted by a jury and filed a lawsuit against the city.
Their experiences have been used by conservatives to slam Dearborn. In July, Gingrich, the former House speaker, wrote:
"This is a clear case of freedom of speech and the exercise of religious freedom being sacrificed in deference to Shari'a's intolerance against the preaching of religions other than Islam."
Gingrich said the missionaries were handing out copies of Christian literature, which is "of course, forbidden by Shari'a's rules on proselytizing."
this is a video of some guys doing a take off comedy type thing (they are from the Dearborn area)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=DwouTyiBrTY
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