Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Free Speech Victory: City of Coldwater Repeals Unconstitutional Resolution after Tea Party Files Lawsuit
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
As a result of a federal lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of a local Tea Party group, the City of Coldwater, Michigan has repealed its draconian restriction of free speech in its downtown city park. The restriction, in the form of a Resolution passed by the City Council last November, prohibited “the display of banners or other signs of any type or description whatsoever in the Four Corners Parks in the City of Coldwater.”
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national conservative Christian public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, voluntarily dismissed its federal lawsuit after the City repealed the resolution at its Monday, April 25 City Council meeting and agreed to pay the Law Center its attorney fees and costs in the amount of $8,347.50.
TMLC had filed the lawsuit alleging violations of the constitutional right to freedom of speech on behalf of the Common Sense Patriots of Branch County, Barbara Brady and Martin Lepper.
TMLC Senior Trial Counsel Rob Muise, who was handling the case for the Tea Party, commented: “I’m pleased that we were able to bring about a quick victory for our clients and the First Amendment.”
The Common Sense Patriots of Branch County was established in 2009 as part of the nationwide political, grass-roots movement of American patriots known as the Tea Party. It gathered several times each year for events often held at the Four Corners Park, located in downtown Coldwater. These political assemblies and rallies would invariably involve the display of numerous political signs and banners with slogans such as “No More Taxes, ” “Give Me Liberty… Not Debt” and “Born Free…Taxed to Death.”
As it had with other groups in the past, the City allowed the Patriots to place a sign at the park entrance announcing their meetings. However, in July 2010, the City Manager informed the Patriots that they could no longer put up their sign. The City refused to give any specific explanation other than the City had received some complaints.
Richard Thompson, TMLC President and Chief Counsel, commented: “Clearly, the City’s ban on all signs was prompted by complaints against the Tea Party. Nevertheless, I applaud the city attorney for quickly resolving this lawsuit by acknowledging that the City’s blanket ban on signs was unconstitutional.”
As a result of a federal lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of a local Tea Party group, the City of Coldwater, Michigan has repealed its draconian restriction of free speech in its downtown city park. The restriction, in the form of a Resolution passed by the City Council last November, prohibited “the display of banners or other signs of any type or description whatsoever in the Four Corners Parks in the City of Coldwater.”The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national conservative Christian public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, voluntarily dismissed its federal lawsuit after the City repealed the resolution at its Monday, April 25 City Council meeting and agreed to pay the Law Center its attorney fees and costs in the amount of $8,347.50.
TMLC had filed the lawsuit alleging violations of the constitutional right to freedom of speech on behalf of the Common Sense Patriots of Branch County, Barbara Brady and Martin Lepper.
TMLC Senior Trial Counsel Rob Muise, who was handling the case for the Tea Party, commented: “I’m pleased that we were able to bring about a quick victory for our clients and the First Amendment.”
The Common Sense Patriots of Branch County was established in 2009 as part of the nationwide political, grass-roots movement of American patriots known as the Tea Party. It gathered several times each year for events often held at the Four Corners Park, located in downtown Coldwater. These political assemblies and rallies would invariably involve the display of numerous political signs and banners with slogans such as “No More Taxes, ” “Give Me Liberty… Not Debt” and “Born Free…Taxed to Death.”
As it had with other groups in the past, the City allowed the Patriots to place a sign at the park entrance announcing their meetings. However, in July 2010, the City Manager informed the Patriots that they could no longer put up their sign. The City refused to give any specific explanation other than the City had received some complaints.
Richard Thompson, TMLC President and Chief Counsel, commented: “Clearly, the City’s ban on all signs was prompted by complaints against the Tea Party. Nevertheless, I applaud the city attorney for quickly resolving this lawsuit by acknowledging that the City’s blanket ban on signs was unconstitutional.”
Did a Polygamous Imam Lead Prayer in the Florida Legislature?
by David J. Rusin • Apr 27, 2011 at 11:05 am
Two years ago today, Qasim Ahmed became "possibly the first" imam to open a session of the Florida House of Representatives with a prayer. Subsequent findings by Islamist Watch suggest that he made history in another sense — as the first polygamist to be so honored.
Critical information comes from the website of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), an African-American Muslim organization whose Islamist-heavy leadership is topped by radical cleric Siraj Wahhaj. Ahmed is listed as a member of MANA's executive committee; his important role in the group lends credence to descriptions of him carried on its site.
One post summarizes an August 2009 workshop in Atlanta by Services for Human Advancement and Resource Enhancement (SHARE), the "organizational vehicle for implementing MANA's agenda in a local area." The gathering was titled "A Refreshing Look at Polygyny with Qur'anic Insights and a Focus on Justice & Freedom in an Adverse Environment." (Polygyny refers to a man being married to multiple women at once.) MANA's write-up notes that presenters included "Imam Qasim Ahmed and his wives Nadiyah Ahmad and Aminah Muhammad." A later post reiterates this, stating that the event "featured … Imam Qasim Ahmed and his two beloved wives." Furthermore, Word documents advertising the 2009 workshop have been located: one version in which the women are labeled as Ahmed's "wives" and a second in which they are not.
Google turns up another page mentioning all three individuals, but it contains no hint of any marital links. However, even shallow searches of public records databases show that the histories of Ahmed and the women identified by MANA as his "wives" overlap in intriguing ways.
read more: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2011/04/did-a-polygamous-imam-lead-prayer-in-the-florida
Critical information comes from the website of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), an African-American Muslim organization whose Islamist-heavy leadership is topped by radical cleric Siraj Wahhaj. Ahmed is listed as a member of MANA's executive committee; his important role in the group lends credence to descriptions of him carried on its site.
One post summarizes an August 2009 workshop in Atlanta by Services for Human Advancement and Resource Enhancement (SHARE), the "organizational vehicle for implementing MANA's agenda in a local area." The gathering was titled "A Refreshing Look at Polygyny with Qur'anic Insights and a Focus on Justice & Freedom in an Adverse Environment." (Polygyny refers to a man being married to multiple women at once.) MANA's write-up notes that presenters included "Imam Qasim Ahmed and his wives Nadiyah Ahmad and Aminah Muhammad." A later post reiterates this, stating that the event "featured … Imam Qasim Ahmed and his two beloved wives." Furthermore, Word documents advertising the 2009 workshop have been located: one version in which the women are labeled as Ahmed's "wives" and a second in which they are not.
Google turns up another page mentioning all three individuals, but it contains no hint of any marital links. However, even shallow searches of public records databases show that the histories of Ahmed and the women identified by MANA as his "wives" overlap in intriguing ways.
read more: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2011/04/did-a-polygamous-imam-lead-prayer-in-the-florida
Cali: Muslim on trial for killing family of Hindu girlfriend who broke off relationship
Posted on April 27, 2011 by creeping
D.A. to seek death in killings, burnings of family
SANTA ANA – The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it will seek the death penalty against a Van Nuys man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s father and sister and setting their bodies on fire.
Iftekhar Murtaza, 25, qualified for a potential death sentence when a judge found enough evidence at a preliminary hearing in January to require that he stand trial on two counts of first-degree murder, plus the special circumstances of committing multiple murder, murders during the commission of a burglary and kidnapping, and murders for financial gain.
He is also charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempting to murder his ex-girlfriend’s mother in May 2007.
Murtaza is being held without bail and is scheduled for a pretrial hearing on Friday in the Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.
Prosecutors will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole for Murtaza’s co-defendants, Vitaliy Krasnoperov, 24, of Hollywood, and Charles Anthony Murphy, Jr., 25, of Mission Hills.
All three men have pleaded not guilty
Tenn. Anti-Terror Bill Advances in Legislature
Posted on April 27, 2011 by creeping
Good news, but read it to the end. It sounds like the FBI’s Nashville office has submitted to sharia and won’t even take a position on the legislation while at the same time saying they are in cahoots with the Muslim community via Tenn. Anti-Terror Bill Advances in Legislature.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A contentious proposal that would authorize the governor and attorney general to decide whether a person or group is a terrorist organization advanced in the Tennessee Legislature on Tuesday after assurances from the sponsors that the measure does not target Muslims.
The legislation passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 6-3 a few hours after being approved 12-4 in the same committee in the House. Both measures now move on to finance committees in each chamber.
The original proposal sought to make it a felony to follow some versions of the Islamic code known as Shariah, but the measure was later amended to strip out any reference to a specific religion.
read more: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/tenn-anti-terror-bill-advances-in-legislature/
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A contentious proposal that would authorize the governor and attorney general to decide whether a person or group is a terrorist organization advanced in the Tennessee Legislature on Tuesday after assurances from the sponsors that the measure does not target Muslims.
The legislation passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 6-3 a few hours after being approved 12-4 in the same committee in the House. Both measures now move on to finance committees in each chamber.
The original proposal sought to make it a felony to follow some versions of the Islamic code known as Shariah, but the measure was later amended to strip out any reference to a specific religion.
read more: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/tenn-anti-terror-bill-advances-in-legislature/
Gitmo files: Britain and its mosques a global center of terror
Posted on April 27, 2011 by creeping
via ABU HAMZA’S MOSQUE NAMED AS GLOBAL CENTRE OF TERROR
Secret documents weren’t need to disclose this information – it was widely reported including in a book titled Londonistan
read more: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/gitmo-files-britain-and-its-mosques-a-global-center-of-terror/
VILE hate preachers helped turn Britain into the hub of al-Qaida’s global terror network.
Secret Guantanamo Bay files have identified UK-based extremists Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada as key recruiters.
American officials believe they were responsible for radicalising dozens of young men before sending them off to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The secret documents have disclosed how radical clerics turned London into a global terror blackspot after claiming asylum and living off state benefits.
read more: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/gitmo-files-britain-and-its-mosques-a-global-center-of-terror/
Detroit Archbishop, Dearborn Police Chief Haddad, & Assistant Prosecutor Robert Moran Bow to Islam!
by Christopher Logan
In the wake of the recent persecution of Pastor Terry Jones, I would like to take a look at the surrounding players and their pro-Islamic, anti-American actions.
First we will start off with another weak Christian “leader”, the Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron.
read more: http://loganswarning.com/2011/04/26/detroit-archbishop-dearborn-police-chief-haddad-assistant-prosecutor-robert-moran-bow-to-islam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Loganswarning+%28Loganswarning%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
In the wake of the recent persecution of Pastor Terry Jones, I would like to take a look at the surrounding players and their pro-Islamic, anti-American actions.
First we will start off with another weak Christian “leader”, the Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron.
Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron joined with a group of religious leaders in opposing a Florida pastor’s plan to hold an anti-Muslim rally during Holy Week.Either the Archbishop needs a history lesson, or he is in the state of deep denial. As for the history lesson, I suggest he starts with the Islamic conquests of the Coptics, Persians, and the Hindu Kush. The “moral values” of Mohammad and Jesus were not even close. Mohammad was a liar, rapist, and terrorist. Is that the message of Jesus? BTW, there are a lot more than “a few” of us. The voices of Islam are CLEARLY on the rise! We are doing the job you are afraid to do.
“It is possible for an interfaith community of believers to live in peace and liberty, and to do so while promoting social justice and moral values,” the archbishop said in an April 21 appearance at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan. “May we never let the negative voices of the few deter us from working together toward these worthy goals on behalf of the many.
read more: http://loganswarning.com/2011/04/26/detroit-archbishop-dearborn-police-chief-haddad-assistant-prosecutor-robert-moran-bow-to-islam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Loganswarning+%28Loganswarning%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
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