The First “No Go Zone” on American Soil?
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Dearborn Muslims Mob Pastor Terry Jones
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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
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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.
This post courtesy of The Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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