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BAMN Invades Dearborn – Preventing Pastor Terry Jones from Walking to Arab Festival

June 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
Terry Jones vs. BAMN Protestors

DEARBORN, Michigan - An angry group of Detroit area BAMN protestors prevented Pastor Terry Jones from walking peacefully to Dearborn's 16th annual Arab Festival last Friday afternoon. Using Dearborn's City Hall and Schaefer Road as a stage for their antics  (and attempting to grab international news headlines) - a small group supporting Terry Jones group 'Stand Up America Now!' tried to walk down Schaefer Road - against the shouting and shoving of the Detroit area anarchist group 'By Any Means Necessary' (BAMN). Oddly enough, most of the anti-Terry-Jones-protesters were not … [Read more...]

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Dearborn Officials Face Federal Court Lawsuit

February 25, 2011 By 5 Comments
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DEARBORN, Michigan – The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced  that the City of Dearborn,  Mayor John B. O’Reilly, Chief of Police Ronald Haddad, 17 City police officers, and two executives of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce were named as defendants in a ninety-six page federal civil rights lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court in Detroit on 22-Feb-2011. The lawsuit, brought by TMLC and co-counsel "Sharia law expert", David Yerushalmi, stems from two separate police actions at the June 2010 Dearborn, Michigan Annual … [Read more...]

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UPDATED: Mosque Bomber Foiled Like Fawkes

January 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
January 31, 2011

DEARBORN, MI -  On this day in 1606,  Guy Fawkes was executed after his conviction in the Gunpowder Plot against the English Parliament and King James the First. The conspiracy was thwarted before any explosion occurred. During a search of the House of Lords at about midnight on November 4, 1605, Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder – enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble – and arrested. He was executed for his crimes on January 31, 1606. Mosque Bomber Foiled! Bloggers and news hounds are  buzzing this morning, after CAIR mounted a public relations … [Read more...]

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Top 10 Dearborn News Stories for 2010

December 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Dearborn, MI -- Newspaper editors around the nation follow a tradition each December - picking the top 10 news stories for the year.  The results are a great way of summarizing the big events of the year.  Among the top national and international stories, there are few surprises: Gulf Oil Disaster, Health Care Overhaul, Haiti Earthquake, Decline of the US Economy, Rise of the Tea Party, Chile Mine Rescue, and WikiLeaks ... although Vanity Fair claims several editors wanted to make "Sarah Palin Has a Grammatical Error on Her Facebook Page" the top headline of the year. Every publication … [Read more...]

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Acts-17 Group Acquitted of Inciting Crowd

September 25, 2010 By 6 Comments
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DEARBORN, Michigan - Friday afternoon at the 19th District Court, four Christian missionaries affiliated with the Acts 17 apologetics group where acquitted of inciting a crowd at the local Arab Festival. The jury found them not guilty of the charges of "breach of peace".  Nabeel Qureshi of Virginia, Negeen Mayel of California and Paul Rezkalla and David Wood, both of New York, were acquitted (found not guilty) of breach of peace, according to reports from 19th District Court officials after the verdict. However, Mayel was found guilty of failure to obey a police officer's order. State … [Read more...]

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Amazing Grace Amid Profound Controversy

August 31, 2010 By 7 Comments
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EDITORIAL (31-Aug-2010) - Monday morning, at the 19th District Court in Dearborn, Judge Mark Somers deliberated over a pre-trial hearing concerning an incident which occurred at Dearborn's 15th annual Arab International Festival on Friday, June 14th.  As previously reported in the Dearborn Free Press, several people affiliated with the Acts 17 Apologetics group were arraigned  on July 12th, on charges of "breach of peace".  The four Christians, David Wood (a 34 year old former atheist) from Bronx, New York, Dr. Nabeel Qureshi (a 29 year old former Muslim) from Virginia, Nageen Mayel (a … [Read more...]

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Debate About Free Speech In Dearborn Continues

July 25, 2010 By 5 Comments

EDITORIAL (Updated 27-Jul-2010) -- The Dearborn Free Press has purposely been very slow to report much about this controversy. We heard about the arrest of  four Christians at the Arab International Festival, on Friday, June 18 -- the night that it happened. We mentioned something about it on our Facebook page, the following Monday morning (June 21st). We have been very cautious to report anything, and a careful investigation is still ongoing. On June 21st we made the following statements  (only on the Dearborn Free Press Facebook page): We linked to a Detroit News article entitled … [Read more...]

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