Angola Gets Rid of Its Hezbollah Muslims; When Will We?

By Debbie Schlussel

As you know from reading this site, entire Michigan cities, including Dearbornistan and Dearbornistan Heights, are Hezbollah-occupied territory. The large populations of Hezbollah-supporting Shi’ite Muslims are engaged in money-laundering, phony charities, and other financial and moral support to Hezbollah, the terrorist group that murdered over 300 U.S. Marines and civilians in barracks and Embassy bombings in Beirut and worked with Al-Qaeda to murder many more Americans.  But the country of Angola knows how to deal with them.

Contrast Angola’s actions with those of our own officials who are in bed with Hezbollah’s Shi’ites, here in America.

Angola on Tuesday expelled 140 foreign nationals, including 16 Lebanese, on suspicions of terrorism and money laundering, a government official said.

“These foreigners were expelled from Angola because of their illegal status and for money laundering and for terrorism,” said Fretas Neto, who heads Angola’s foreign migration office.
The action was taken, he explained, “to safeguard the national interest and guarantee the internal security of the Angolan state.”

Police also probed four other Lebanese nationals and plans to expel them shortly, Neto said.
“They will be banned from the country for a period of more than 20 years,” he added.

Since a protracted civil war ended in 2002, Angola has attracted a substantial number of foreigners looking to capitalise on an economic boom fuelled by the flourishing oil industry and the diamond trade.

There are several Lebanese-owned businesses in the capital Luanda, mainly in the import-export sector.

And those businesses are all funding Hezbollah.  Bet on it.

That’s how you deal with them. You deport them.  Sadly, the way America deals with ‘em is to hold Ramadan Iftar dinners and monthly “dialogue” for them and to give them millions of dollars in government financing for their welfare agencies, which attracts more and more of them to this country to milk the system and suck us dry. And they are laughing at us all the way to the bank . . . and the terrorist-financing hawala.
Alhamdillullah [praise allah].

Fordson teacher involved in suit fired

By Katie Hetrick
Press & Guide Newspapers

DEARBORN — Dearborn Public Schools has fired one of two former Fordson teachers suing the district for religious discrimination and harassment.

Bryan Purcell was terminated after he failed to show up for a personnel hearing on May 23. Details of why the math teacher was fired are protected under privacy laws, and public school board records do not give any clues, although minutes from the public portion of the meeting include an e-mail Purcell submitted to the board.

In the e-mail, he called the allegations a “mountain of fiction” and continued to assert that since Imad Fadlallah became principal at Fordson High School in 2005, FHS administrators have systematically tried to force non-Arab and non-Muslim faculty out of the school.

“This a pattern of harassment and the hostile work environment he created has continued under Youssef Mosallam, and in fact, the harassment has been stepped up,” Purcell said in the email.

Fadlallah retired last summer and was replaced by Mosallam as principal.

Purcell’s attorney, Debbie Schlussel, said Purcell would fight his dismissal under the state’s teacher Tenure Act.

“It is obvious that the dismissal is pretextual, discriminatory, and retaliatory, and we intend to fight it all the way,” Schlussel said via email.

Schlussel, an ultra conservative commentator who calls the city “Dearbornistan” on her website, also said the suit against the district is ongoing. She declined in the email to provide additional comment because the case is still pending in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

Schlussel filed the suit in September on behalf of Purcell and Georgene Stergalas, a marketing teacher. Both the Fordson High School teachers said school administrators had harassed them because they were neither Arab nor Muslim.

Both claimed in the suit that administrators tried to drive them out by reassigning them to less desirable courses, putting troublemaking students in their rooms, and scheduling them to teach two classes at the same time in different areas of the building, among several other allegations.

When the suit was filed, both teachers had taken medical leave because of the stress caused by the situation. Purcell had taught in Dearborn for 10 years and Stergalas for 16.

Stergalas is now teaching at Dearborn High, said Brian Mustonen, Dearborn Public School’s communications coordinator. He confirmed the suit is still making its way through the courts.

School administrators have said since the beginning that the suit has no merit. Previous claims against Fadlallah had been unsubstantiated, they noted.

However, the suit was similar to one filed in 2009 by ousted wrestling coach Gerald Marszalek. He claimed he was forced out of his coaching job after 35 years because Fadlallah did not like that a volunteer assistant wrestling coach was doing Christian outreach work outside of school.

That suit was eventually settled out of court, the district said.
From: http://www.pressandguide.com/articles/2011/07/12/news/doc4e1c8aabbf25e615913007.txt?viewmode=fullstory

Brian Dickerson: When judges violate the law, taxpayers pay the bill

 

BRIAN DICKERSON

Twice in the last six weeks, Dearborn District Judge Mark Somers has been summoned to other judges' courtrooms to answer allegations that he fired court employees in violation of Michigan law.
Twice, Somers testified that he had done nothing wrong.

And twice, jurors -- 16 in all, sitting in two different civil trials -- unanimously concluded otherwise, awarding two former employees more than $1.1 million in damages.

With attorney fees and interest, Somers' liability will almost certainly exceed $2 million -- even if a third ex-employee comes up empty when her whistle-blower lawsuit against Somers goes to trial next year.

But Somers isn't sweating. He's still pulling down his $138,000 salary as chief judge of Dearborn's district court. The assistant state attorney general who has defended him in all three lawsuits never sends him a bill. And Dearborn taxpayers will likely bear the cost of any damages ultimately collected by the plaintiffs -- just as taxpayers and municipal insurers in Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, West Bloomfield and Southgate were left holding the bag when lawsuits against judges in their communities were settled in the plaintiffs' favor.
What is more galling is that none of those judges has ever been removed from office, suspended or even publicly reprimanded by any disciplinary body.

Jurors have found the judges' conduct -- and their credibility as witnesses in their own defense -- wanting. But neither the Judicial Tenure Commission nor the Attorney Grievance Commission -- the organizations responsible for policing the ethical conduct of judges and lawyers -- concedes that those judges have done anything unethical.

So much for holding the men and women who oversee Michigan's courts to a higher standard.

Detroit attorney Joel Sklar, whose client was awarded $734,000 in her lawsuit against Somers, marvels that judges who have violated the law in their own courthouses continue to sit in judgment of others.

"You wonder," Sklar muses, "whether they think their black robes make them invincible, or just invisible."

A lack of credibility

In 2006, a jury awarded $3.1 million in damages to Michelle Horton, a former Bloomfield Hills District Court employee of the year who complained that the court's sitting judges had colluded to fire her illegally.

Witnesses testified that the judges had turned on Horton in solidarity with a newly elected colleague who suspected her -- erroneously, as it turned out -- of plotting to embarrass his wife. Jurors learned that, at one point, Bloomfield Township detectives had staked out the Capitol Grille to determine if Horton was accepting free drinks from lawyers with business before the court.

All three judges implicated in Horton's allegations testified under oath that they had done nothing wrong -- a fact the attorney defending the district court underlined in his closing argument.

"Let's think about all the people who have to be lying to make (the plaintiff's case) work," the defense lawyer, Mark Paxton, told the jury. "Judge (Diane) D'Agostini has to be lying. Judge (Kimberly) Small has to be lying. Judge (Marc) Barron has to be lying."

But it took jurors only a couple of hours to agree that Horton was the one telling the truth. West Bloomfield and six other municipalities who fund the Bloomfield Hills District Court vowed to appeal the jury's $3.1-million judgment, but quietly agreed to a seven-figure settlement on the condition that Horton's attorneys agree not to reveal its value.

Taking the Fifth

Jurors never got to hear Southgate District Judge James Kandrevas' response to allegations he fired his court clerk, Lori Shemka, after she blew the whistle on Kandrevas' unethical conduct.

Shemka charged in a lawsuit that she was fired just days after she alerted the State Court Administrator's Office that Kandrevas was funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into a secret bank account he and another court employee controlled.

In a 2010 deposition arising from the clerk's whistle-blower suit against the court, Judge Kandrevas invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination 222 times. The court's insurer subsequently settled the lawsuit against him for $300,000.

Answering to a higher authority?

The two juries that awarded more than $1.1 million to former Dearborn District Court employees heard testimony that Somers was a zealously religious man who questioned defendants about their church attendance and retaliated when a deputy court administrator complained that he was proselytizing from the bench.

The deputy, Julie Pucci, alleged that Somers unlawfully eliminated her position after learning that she was living with her fiance, Dearborn District Judge William Hultgren. Jurors awarded her $732,000, including $200,000 in punitive damages.

Pucci's federal court judgment came less than a month after a Wayne County Circuit Court jury awarded $463,000 to former probation officer Simone Calvas. Calvas testified that she had incurred the devout Somers' displeasure by associating with Pucci and by conceiving twins out of wedlock.

Dearborn city attorneys have taken the public position that the city, which was not a defendant in Pucci's lawsuit, is not liable for any damages awarded to her. But a multitude of legal authorities and precedents suggest otherwise.

Discipline on the QT?

Late last week, I asked Tom Ryan, a former State Bar of Michigan president who currently serves as chairman of the Judicial Tenure Commission, why the JTC had taken no disciplinary action against any of the judges who jurors determined had violated the law.

Ryan answered by reminding me that the commission "has a number of weapons to deal with these situations," including private "letters of reprimand" and "letters of caution," and that voters should not conclude that the absence of any public disciplinary action means that he and his JTC colleagues have been looking the other way.

But why, I asked Ryan, should the JTC hesitate to make a public example of judges whose misconduct has been exposed in public trials?

"Those are the rules under which we operate," Ryan answered. "It was determined that confidentiality was critical for the protection of the judiciary and the public."

Begging your pardon, counselor, but all judges work for the public -- and no one is served when the JTC and the bar conspire to sweep illegal judicial conduct under the rug.

"There is," as Ryan observed, "a ballot box" at which voters dissatisfied with the performance of elected judges can take action to remove them from office.

But attorneys are notoriously (and understandably) reluctant to challenge any sitting judge. And the JTC and the bar betray their profession when they refuse to call out judges who violate the law.

I covered each of the trials I've described in this column; I saw what jurors saw, and I understand why those jurors decided they couldn't trust the defendant judges who testified before them.

But journalists shouldn't bear the burden of policing bad judges alone -- and taxpayers shouldn't be left holding the bag when juries occasionally hold one of them accountable.

Contact Brian Dickerson: 313-222-6584 or bdickerson@freepress.com

Two NFL Players to Headline ISNA Convention, Will Speak for Muslim Student Association

Over the years Islamic apologists have pointed to Muslim celebrities in their effort to try and downplay the threat of Islam. One of them was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has recently spoken out against “Islamophobia”. Today we learn that two NFL players have shown us where their loyalty lies, as they have joined forces with two of the country’s largest Islamic organizations. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the Muslim Student Association (MSA). Just because a Muslim is a sports figure, does not mean they stand with America over Islam.
(Husain Abdullah pictured)

NFL Players to Headline ISNA Convention Sessions, Register Today!
Source: ISNA

(Chicago,IL July 1, 2011) Listen up all you football fans! ISNA is excited to announce that NFL brothers, Husain Abdullah of the Minnesota Vikings and Hamza Abdullah of the Arizona Cardinals, will join the ISNA Convention this weekend!

The brothers will kick-off this year’s basketball tournament on Saturday and will also speak during sessions for the Muslim Student Association (MSA) track and the main ISNA convention track throughout the weekend!

In addition to the great opportunities to meet with these all star players, you can also view a full viewing of the film, “Fordson: Faith, Fasting, and Football,” at convention during the ISNA Convention Film Festival.

“Fordson” is the very popular documentary that follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from Dearborn, Michigan during the last ten days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The film unearths the story of a community desperately holding onto its Islamic faith while struggling to gain acceptance in post 9-11 America.

Don’t draft Muslim.

From: http://loganswarning.com/2011/07/01/two-nfl-players-to-headline-isna-convention-will-speak-for-muslim-student-association/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Loganswarning+%28Loganswarning%29

Peaceful Muslims threw rocks, bottles at Dearborn Arab fest

A little snippet from a completely one-sided report on last weeks Islamofest in Dearborn, Michigan. via Dearborn Learns from Protests at Arab International Festival – Dearborn, MI Patch.

Several more arrests occurred within the Arab International Festival on both Friday and Sunday, as several anti-Muslim Christian groups vocally attacked Islam in and around the free speech zone guarded by Dearborn police and Wayne County sheriffs. The demonstrations drew the ire of hundreds–if not thousands–of festivalgoers, some of whom threw rocks, bottles and insults at the evangelist groups.

Dearborn youth not thrilled with concept of free speech

Despite the sometimes violent responses–a Sunday scuffle led to the arrest of one of the self-proclaimed “Bible Believers,” as well as the man who attacked him–Dearborn officials were generally pleased with the weekend.

Violence led to arrests

Some conclusions based on what the limited information the dhimmi media has actually reported:

• Dearborn Muslims and Arabs are so volatile and prone to violence that even the bizarre “free speech zones” have to be protected by police
• Some Muslims and Arabs threw rocks, bottles, and insults at those in the police-protection required free speech zones
• Despite police presence, Muslims and Arabs (and leftist tools) still responded violently with multiple arrests for physically attacking a non-Muslims
• Dearborn officials were pleased with the Muslim – Arab response to free speech

Dearbornistan, USA

6 Arrested as Mob Rushes Terry Jones at Arab Festival in Dearborn

Pastor Jones' march through Dearborn on his way to rally at the Arab International Festival was cut short when counter-protesters confronted him in the street.

By Jessica Carreras and David Uberti | Email the authors |

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Dearborn Police arrest a counter-protester who refused to stop harassing Terry Jones on Schaefer Road. 

Photos

Credit Ian Kushnir

Credit Ian Kushnir

Credit Ian Kushnir

Credit Ian Kushnir

Credit Ian Kushnir

 

Florida Pastor Terry Jones' day of demonstration in Dearborn was cut short after a mob rushed him on his way to the Arab International Festival Friday afternoon.

Jones' original plan was to march down Schaefer Road to speak at the Arab International Festival after he and several of his supporters spoke at Dearborn City Hall. However, that plan ended abruptly when Jones' march was met in the street with dozens of hostile protesters led by activist group BAMN–By Any Means Necessary.

read more: http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/six-arrested-in-bamn-mobbing-of-pastor-jones?ncid=breaking_news

Dearborn Prepares for Pastor Jones’ Return

 

Jones' representative says they’re not looking for trouble, while both they and festival organizers are leaving order in the hands of Dearborn and Wayne County police.

By Jessica Carreras  

   

Terry Jones, who hosted a rally at Dearborn City Hall

in April, will return this Friday to hold a protest in

conjunction with the start of the city's Arab

International Festival.

As the Arab International Festival kicks off this Friday, festival-goers will be joined by an unusual guest: Quran-burning Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who is planning a rally and march to coincide with the three-day festival’s start.

The annual Arab International Festival, hosted by Dearborn’s American Arab Chamber of Commerce, is one of the largest Arab-American social events in the country, attracting an estimated 300,000 people to a 12-block section of Dearborn’s Warren Avenue between Schaefer and Wyoming. It will take place June 17-19 and feature carnival rides, children’s activities and a slew of live entertainers.

read more: http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/dearborn-prepares-for-pastor-jones-return

Prominent Muslim “American” Businesses Celebrate “Legacy” of Khomeini

By Debbie Schlussel

On Monday, I told you about the large group of “moderate,” “American” Muslims who celebrated, honored, and memorialized the late Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Hezbollah and the man who sent his Iranian henchmen to take over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and hold Americans hostage for 444 days.  I showed you the video on which these Muslims praised Khomeini for, among other things, “bringing America to its knees.”  Yup, as I’ve been saying repeatedly for more than a decade, this is how the so-called “moderate,” “loyal,” “American” Muslims really feel, and now they are feeling brave enough to say it openly–that they hate this country and praise those who would destroy it.  But this isn’t just in Washington, DC, at the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani Embassy, where the ceremony took place over the weekend.

read more: http://www.debbieschlussel.com/38330/prominent-muslim-american-businesses-celebrate-legacy-of-khomeini/

Judge Somers plans to challenge lawsuit ruling

By J. Patrick Pepper

Press & Guide Newspapers

DEARBORN — A motion challenging a jury verdict against the city’s top judge could be filed next week.

19th District Chief Judge Mark Somers said Friday that his attorney from the state Attorney General’s Office is working on a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. A Wayne County jury last week found Somers fired former court probation officer Simone Calvas without just cause and awarded Calvas approximately $464,000 in past and future damages.

A judgment notwithstanding the verdict is an oft-requested but infrequently granted motion where a trial judge can exercise discretion to avoid extreme or unreasonable jury decisions. Literally, it allows the judge to enter a verdict notwithstanding a jury’s findings.

read more: http://www.pressandguide.com/articles/2011/06/10/news/doc4df2620a9030f795596158.txt

First Amendment Trumps Sharia in Dearborn

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/05/29/first-amendment-trumps-sharia-in-dearborn/



Posted By Andrew Bostom On May 29, 2011

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Robert Muise, Senior Counsel for the Thomas More Law Center: Teaching us how to solve the problem of Sharia

A seminal, if ominous report ^[2] released May 17, 2011 by the Center for Security Policy described fifty appellate court cases from 23 states which involve conflicts between Islamic law—Sharia ^[3]—and American state law. Nothwithstanding the delusive mindslaughter ^[4] on display across America’s political spectrum which denies Sharia ^[5] encroachment in the US, the CSP analysis revealed ^[2] that,

Sharia has been applied or formally recognized in state court decisions, in conflict with the Constitution and state public policy.

But the grim, seemingly inexorable, progressive acceptance of Sharia-based mores in the US—despite this totalitarian ^[3] religio-political “law” being antithetical to American law—was at least temporarily reversed late last week, in of all places, Dearborn, Michigan. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled ^[6] 2:1 on Thursday May 26, 2011 (in GEORGE SAIEG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF DEARBORN; RONALD HADDAD, Dearborn Chief of Police ) that Dearborn, and its police department, violated the free-speech rights of a Christian evangelist by barring him from handing out leaflets at an Arab-American street festival last year. The court’s two judge majority opinion concluded ^[6],

On the free speech claim, we REVERSE the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants and its denial of summary judgment to the plaintiffs. We thereby invalidate the leafleting restriction within both the inner and outer perimeters of the Festival.1 The restriction on the sidewalks that are directly adjacent to the Festival attractions does not serve a substantial government interest. The City keeps those same sidewalks open for public traffic and permits sidewalk vendors, whose activity is more obstructive to sidewalk traffic flow than pedestrian leafleting is. Moreover, the prohibition of pedestrian leafleting in the outer perimeter is not narrowly tailored to the goal of isolating inner areas from vehicular traffic. The City can be held liable because the Chief of Police, who instituted the leafleting restriction, created official municipal policy.

Elaborating on the issue of Dearborn’s liability for depriving George Saieg, an American Christian pastor of Sudanese descent, of his first amendment rights, the judges opined ^[6],

The City may be held liable for the restriction of Saieg’s free speech rights that the leafleting restriction caused. A municipality is liable if a constitutional injury results from a policy or custom “made by its lawmakers or by those whose edicts or acts may fairly be said to represent official policy.” Monell v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 694–95 (1978). In this case, the City approved the Festival “subject to . . . the rules and regulations of the Police Department.” R. 47-13 (Ex. M: Council Resolution)…Chief Haddad described the leafleting policy as his department’s policy, subject only to the approval of the city council and the mayor. R. 47-11 (Ex. K: Haddad Dep. at 95–96) (stating that “the police department will supply the standards that must be met,” such as the “prohibition of individuals handing out . . . materials on the public sidewalk”). The police department’s leafleting policy, made with the authority that the City Council delegated to it, fairly represents official City policy. Therefore, Saieg may hold the City liable for violating his First Amendment right to free speech.

Most remarkably, the majority opinion of Justices Moore and Clay included a salient observation ^[6] revealing how these judges understood the Sharia-based objections to non-Muslim proselytization which motivated Dearborn’s attempt to abrogate Pastor Saeig’s freedom of speech—mainstream Islam’s ^[7] continued rejection of freedom of conscience:

Saieg also faces a more basic problem with booth-based evangelism: “[t]he penalty of leaving Islam according to Islamic books is death,” which makes Muslims reluctant to approach a booth that is publicly “labeled as . . . Christian.” R. 48 (Ex. A: Saieg Dep. at 75). Saieg believes that evangelism is more effective when he can roam the Festival and speak to Muslims more discreetly.

Roberta Aluffi Beck-Peccoz ^[8], Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Turin, made this rather understated assessment of contemporary Islamdom’s strict opposition to the proselytization of Muslims by non-Muslims—rooted in the Sharia, and ultimately, the grave offense of “ridda,” or apostasy from Islam, deemed “treasonous” against the Muslim community, and punishable by death ^[7] under Islamic Law—published ^[8] in 2010:

Islamic States have always strongly opposed this specific freedom [i.e., freedom of conscience as per the first amendment of the US Bill of Rights, or more specifically article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights], claiming that it contravenes Islamic Law. [Note: It does, and that is why the 57 Muslim nation Organization of the Islamic Conference drafted and ratified the antithetical Cairo Declaration which insists upon having Sharia exert supremacy over all “manmade” law!]…Moreover they express fear that proselytism represents a kind of foreign interference in their internal affairs. Consistently, Islamic States do not favor proselytism; they sometimes tend to restrict it even in its lightest forms, such as the simple expression of one’s intimate beliefs…Proselytism is perceived as a major threat to the coherence and cohesion of the umma [i.e., the global Muslim community]: it can lead to ridda [apostasy from Islam] the paradigm of political treason, or fitna, the temptation, the civil war involving doctyrinal dissensions…

Even in moderate, pseudo-secular Arab Tunisia—prior to the “Jasmine revolution” which may have already empowered ^[9] the formerly banned Tunisian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood under Rachid Ghannouchi ^[10]—according to a 2010 US State Department report ^[11],

It was illegal to proselytize to Muslims as the government viewed such efforts as disturbing the public order.

Neighboring Morocco ^[12], also deemed “moderate,” aggressively deports Christians who dare proselytize to Muslims. The globally representative Sharia-based penal law (circa1982) of Comoros ^[13] (the Muslim archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique), for example, defines the “criminal” proselytizer as one who, “…indulges, promotes, or teaches Muslims a religion other than Islam.”

The attempt by Dearborn’s large Muslim population to enforce Sharia-based injunctions against non-Muslim proselytism confirms local attitudes documented via polling data collected in 2003, and reported during 2004. “The Detroit Mosque Study: Muslim Views on Policy and Religion,” was conducted by Ihsan Bagby an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Kentucky and a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy Understanding—a Muslim organization. Data were gathered during the summer of 2003 and published online in 2004.

These alarming results were described on page 37 of the report ^[14]:

Mosque participants were asked, whether they agree or disagree with the statement, “Shari’ah should be the law of the land in Muslim countries?”

Apply Islamic Law in Muslim Lands
Strongly Agree — 59%
Somewhat Agree — 22%(i.e., collectively = 81%)

Somewhat Disagree — 8%
Strongly Disagree — 3%
Don’t Know — 8%

Such data supposedly reflected the Detroit area (read Dearborn) Muslims views of “Islamic countries,” only. But given the intrinsic, universally supremacist nature of Islam and the global umma (i.e., as stated in Koran 3:110 ^[15], and the Orwellian-named Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam ^[16], “Ye are the best community that hath been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency; and ye believe in Allah”), once an area has a Muslim majority it is assumed by Muslims that Islamic Law should prevail—hence the “enclave” phenomenon, now evident in the United States.

Following the issuance of the verdict, Pastor Saeig’s intrepid attorney, Robert Muise of the Thomas More Law Center, made these apposite remarks ^[17], which all who cherish our unique Western freedoms must heed, and support:

Everybody should be pleased. Dearborn is getting a pretty strong reputation as being the enemy of the First Amendment. As long as they keep passing these draconian restrictions that violate the rights of everyone, we’re going to challenge them.

Christian Pastor’s Free Speech Victory against City of Dearborn

The U. S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Sudanese Christian Pastor George Saieg has a free speech right to distribute religious literature on public sidewalks and evangelize Muslims during the Annual Arab International Festival held each year in Dearborn, Michigan. 

For five years Saieg, who specifically ministers to Muslims, had been discussing his Christian faith and passing out literature on Dearborn’s sidewalks during the Festival without encountering any problems. Nevertheless, in 2009 police officials informed him he had to remain in a booth, prohibiting him from distributing his literature on the nearby sidewalks and public streets.  

Dearborn is one of the most densely populated Muslim communities in the United States.  It has the largest Mosque in North America.  In the past few years Dearborn has gained national attention for taking a pro-Muslim stance and for the arrest and intimidation of Christian evangelists for engaging in protected speech activity.

The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national conservative Christian public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of Pastor Saieg in 2009, naming the City of Dearborn and its police chief, Ronald Haddad, as defendants.  The case was handled by TMLC Senior Trial Counsel Rob Muise.

In ruling for Saieg, the court recognized the problem Saieg had with booth-based evangelizing: “the penalty of leaving Islam according to Islamic books is death, ” which makes Muslims reluctant to approach a booth that is publically “labeled as … Christian.”

Read the Court’s opinion by clicking here.

A number of hate groups including pro-Israeli occupation group Order of the Dragon

       'Muslim Leaders Define and Clarify Meaning Of Shari'ah In Dearborn' 

Tomorrow, Friday May 27th, the Young Muslim Association will host a panel discussion focusing on the meaning of shari'ah, how it is applied in America and misconceptions being advanced about it in the American public, particularly in Dearborn.

The panelists will include:

Sayyid Mohammad Baqir Al-Qazwini
Dr. Saeed Khan - Wayne State University
Dawud Walid - CAIR-MI

A number of hate groups including pro-Israeli occupation groups, Order of the Dragon, ACT! for America led by anti-Muslim bigot Brigitte Gabriel and David Horowitz's Freedom Centers Palestinian Wall of Lies plan on protesting, de facto, the 1st Amendment rights of American Muslims this Saturday in Dearborn.

 Another Protest of Radical Islam' Planned Saturday in Dearborn

SEE:Backgrounder on Brigitte Gabriel and ACT! for America 

SEE: Another Protest of Radical Islam' Planned Saturday in Dearborn

"Friday's panel will not only present the harmony of Islam's spiritual teachings with the U.S. Constitution for young Muslims but will provide an educational opportunity for the broader public to learn about misconceptions currently propagated by some regarding shari'ah," said CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid.

WHAT: Panel Discussion on Shari'ah
WHEN: Friday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Islamic Center of America, 19500 Ford Rd, Dearborn

Panel will be available live streaming at www.ymaonline.org.

Anti-Sharia Group to Hold Protest in Dearborn Saturday

 

Order of the Dragon, the group originally behind the planned Good Friday protest, has announced that they will host a demonstration against radical Islam on May 28 at Dearborn City Hall.

By Jessica Carreras

    

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Sacred Heart Pastor Rev. Peter Petroske speaks with

Order of the Dragon Vice President Jammie Bothwell

and President Frank Fiorello at Saturday morning's

meeting with local religious leaders.

Michigan-based group Order of the Dragon, which canceled its April 22 anti-Sharia Law protest in Dearborn after controversial Quran-burning Florida Pastor Terry Jones latched himself onto the event, is heading back to Dearborn this weekend to host another event.

The group announced on its website that they will rally at City Hall at 3 p.m. this Saturday, May 28, for a demonstration “against radical Islam and Sharia.”

The group said they will be joined by representatives from the American Defense League, ACT! For America and David Horowitz’s Freedom Center. All three list one of their organizational goals as fighting radical Islam.

At an April 16 press conference and meeting with religious leaders in Dearborn, Order of the Dragon
President Frank Fiorello and Vice President Jammie Bothwell said that they never believed Sharia was happening in Dearborn, but that the Order saw inklings of it that concerned them. Examples, he said, included the fact that Fordson High School football players practice at night during Ramadan, due to the fact that Muslim players must fast during the day.

“I don’t think Sharia law has been implemented here or anywhere else,” Fiorello said. “I’m just worried about the future.”

The 15-member group’s mission–as stated on their website–is “to come together as a community, help protect the traditional rights of Americans … (and) protect our country from the rise of radical Islam and the implementation of Sharia law.”

At that same April meeting, Fiorello and Bothwell announced that their Good Friday protest had been canceled.

But Pastor Jones–who had planned to continue on with the event–was summoned to court over the matter and, as a result, the Good Friday event never took place. Instead, he was found “likely to breach the peace” by a jury and arrested after refusing to pay a $1 peace bond to the city.

Jones is currently suing the city of Dearborn and Wayne County prosecutor’s office, as well as appealing the ruling.

Jones has not pledged to take part in the May 28 demonstration, but is expected to make an appearance at the Arab International Festival on June 17 in east Dearborn.



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Honor Killing Cover-Up in Tampa? Muslim Woman's Death Ruled "Accident"

 

A Muslim woman shunned by her devout Muslim family for her "shameful" divorce dies a sudden death after "throwing herself on the floor" in front of her family, and it's classified an accident? That's what Florida law enforcement determined. No one was charged in the death of 48-year-old Fatima Abdallah in Florida.
This is the sharia in America. The idea that a woman would die after she "threw herself to the floor" is institutionalised gender apartheid, the sharia. The idea defies logic, belies reality.

Deputy Police Chief Marc Hamlin said, "the bottom line is, no matter how long you investigate and no matter how much you investigate, it's not going to overrule the competent medical evidence that it was an accident." How do they know that? How is it more likely that she threw herself to the floor than she was fatally thrown to the floor?

My hat's off to conservative activist David Caton, who pursued the truth, the evidence. Fatima's death cannot be swept under the rug. This reminds me of the lawsuit that was filed in Dearborn charging that the city was covering up "honor killings."

Muslim woman's death questioned by conservative activist FOX, Tampa Bay


TAMPA - The police evidence photo shows Fatima Abdallah's lifeless body on her brother's new Tampa living room floor. She lived there in a gated subdivision, a private investigator says, with three other Muslim families, shunned and divorced because she could not produce children.

Conservative activist David Caton says he knows what it was.

"This was what you would call an honor killing," he said.

Acting on neighbor tips and the private eye's work, Caton, of the Florida Families Association is pushing police to reopen the case, insisting Abdallah died because her family believed she had dishonored them under Islamic law.

"She was divorced," Caton says, "because she could not have children and was shunned and kept private into the family was not allowed to leave or go places."
Yet the Hillsborough Medical Examiner ruled the 48-year-old Abdallah's death was an accident, that during an argument with her mother, she threw herself to the floor, smashing her face into a coffee table, and dying of a brain hemorrhage.

Deputy Police Chief Marc Hamlin telling FOX13, "the bottom line is, no matter how long you investigate and no matter how much you investigate, its not going to overrule the competent medical evidence that it was an accident."

Police across the country have been investigating so-called honor killings, where women and girls die at their own family's hands for dishonoring them under Islamic law.

In Clayton County, outside Atlanta, police say Sandella Rashid was choked to death because she'd divorced the Pakistani man he'd arranged for her to marry. Said Detective Mike Christian, "he told us that he had killed his daughter that he didn't not want the family dishonored by divorce".

Closer to home, Caton says the closing of Abdallah's death case is proof to him that Islamic law is affecting how Florida's laws are enforced.
"Islamization of this country is the greatest threat to our way of life, our American way of life as we know it today," he says.

Islamic activists insist religion is not to blame, says Maliq Saheed of the Pakistan American Society.

"This is personal, it's sickness, it's depression, or it's family problems. His aggressiveness or anything he did he did to her personally, this is not related with the Muslims or not related to the Islam," Saheed said.

Yeah, right, Saheed, and Islam is a religion of peace.


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Michigan man who calls Quran violent was behind Terry Jones' rally

Michigan man who calls Quran violent was behind Terry Jones' rally

Order of the Dragon Press Release

The ADL Radical Islam & anti Sharia Demo

Saturday, May 28 · 3:00pm

Dearborn City Hall 

13615 Michigan Avenue

Dearborn, MI

Hosted by:

O. O. T. D. / Michigan Chapter (original)

*A demo against Radical Islam & Sharia.  

*With The American Defense League

*also ACT! for America.

*David Horowitz's Freedom Centers 'Palestinian Wall of Lies'

 For more info email us at:

Frank ffiorello@dragonorder.org

                

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Dearborn Muslims Mob Pastor Terry Jones as He Speaks in Front of City Hall

The First “No Go Zone” on American Soil?

May 3, 2011

This past Friday, an angry, hate-filled, unruly, mostly Muslim mob of several hundred people broke through police barricades and rushed across the street toward Pastor Terry Jones while he was speaking in front of the Dearborn, Michigan City Hall.  The mob was yelling and screaming, making obscene gestures, holding Korans, throwing shoes and water bottles at Pastor Jones and his supporters.

Resembling riots in the Middle East, the mob waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags while hurling profanities in Arabic and English at Jones and his group of supporters.  As Pastor Jones cautioned the crowd to honor and obey the Constitution, they booed loudly, jeered, and whistled to drown him out. 

Riot police finally had to intervene to prevent the crowd from getting to Pastor Jones and his supporters.  The police were eventually able to push the mob back across the street, but not until several of Jones' supporters had been hit with shoes and other projectiles hurled by the angry mob.

Click here to see video footage of the Dearborn mob

Dearborn, Michigan has the largest mosque in North America; moreover, with 30,000 of its 98,000 residents being Muslim, it has the largest concentration of Muslims than any other American city. 

The City of Dearborn denied a permit for Pastor Jones and Associate Pastor Wayne Sapp to protest Sharia law and Jihad on April 22, 2011, on public property in front of the Dearborn mosque. Subsequently, the county prosecutor used an arcane statute dealing with peace bonds to file a complaint to prevent the pastors from speaking in order to “prevent crime.” The judge ordered Pastor Jones and Sapp to appear before the court, which ultimately resulted in an order to either pay a peace bond or face jail.  Both Pastor Jones and Pastor Sapp were thrown in jail and were not released until after they paid the peace bond.  The judge also ordered them stay away from the mosque and adjacent property for three years (now being appealed by the Thomas More Law Center).

On April 29, Pastors Jones and Sapp returned to Dearborn and gave their speech in front of City Hall.

Legal organizations including the ACLU, which vehemently opposed the content of Pastor Jones’s speech, as well as media commentators across the political spectrum, decried Dearborn’s violation of Jones’s constitutional right to free speech. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan has agreed to represent Jones and Sapp, without charge, in their appeal of this unconstitutional suppression of speech.  

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center commented, “The constitutional right to free speech means that government cannot suppress speech just because it or a majority of society disagrees with the content of that speech.  Nor can government charge someone a price to engage in free speech.”  
 
The actions of the Muslim demonstrators were a stark contrast to Pastor Jones’s peaceful supporters, many of which stood holding American flags as they listened to his speech against radical Muslims, opposition to Sharia law in the U.S., and support of the Constitution.   

Dearborn’s mayor, Jack O’Reilly, has a history of pandering to his large Muslim constituency.  In early March 2011, he appeared on CNN to oppose House Homeland Security Chairman Congressman Pete King’s (R-NY) investigation on the extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community. Moreover, the Mayor’s administration has engaged in a pattern of harassment of Christians who have attempted to minister to Muslims. 

In June 2009, Dearborn police enforced a rule that prevented Sudanese Christian pastor George Saeig from distributing Christian religious literature during the annual Dearborn Arab Festival.  The Thomas More Law Center is representing Pastor Saeig in that case.

In June 2010, again at the Dearborn Arab Festival, four Christian missionaries were arrested on breach of the peace of charges while they were peaceably discussing their Christian faith with a group of Muslim youth.  In September 2010, after a five-day jury trial, the missionaries, represented by Thomas More Law Center attorney Rob Muise, were found not guilty.

Continuing his pattern of pandering to his Muslim constituency, Mayor O’Reilly blamed the lawlessness of the mob on Pastor Jones, rather than on the mob itself.