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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > *Jury Acquits the Four Christian Evangelists Arrested For > Proselytizing at the Dearborn Arab Festival* > > *Monday, September 27, 2010* > > [image: People - D. Wood arrest]ANN ARBOR, MI – Late Friday evening, a > jury of six Dearborn, Michigan residents returned a unanimous verdict of not > guilty of breach of the peace charges, which were brought by the Dearborn > Police Department against four Christian evangelists as they were peacefully > proselytizing to Muslim youths during the Arab International Festival on > June 18, 2010. > > The Thomas More Law Center, a national Christian public interest law firm > based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, represented the evangelists, Dr. Nabeel > Qureshi, Paul Rezkalla, Negeen Mayel and David Wood, at no charge. The jury > returned its verdict after an hour and half of deliberations. Nageen Mayel > was found guilty of failing to obey a police officer—a charge unrelated to > the actual incident, which will most likely be reversed on appeal. > > Robert Muise, the Law Center’s Senior Trial Counsel, handled the five-day > trial. The prosecutor placed seven witnesses on the stand including Chief of > Police, Ron Haddad. > > Even after the acquittals, Dearborn’s mayor, Jack O’Reilly, continued his > ongoing and unprecedented personal attacks on the Christian evangelists, > accusing them of being anti–Muslim bigots. O’Reilly’s continuous > anti-Christian rhetoric was clearly an attempt to curry favor with > Dearborn’s large Muslim population, which also explains the Police > Department’s alarming mobilization to arrest the four Christians. > > Wood and Dr. Qureshi are co-founders of “Act 17 Apologetics, ” a ministry > group that defends the Gospel of Jesus Christ. On June 18, Mayel and > Rezkalla joined them in their missionary work. Dr. Qureshi and Mayel are > converts from Islam to Christianity. After the verdict, the group praised > the Thomas More Law Center and particularly Robert Muise, whom they > described as sharing their emotional burdens and investing more time on the > issue than even they did. The group claimed that without the Thomas More > Law Center, they would not have been able to defend themselves from > persecution by the City of Dearborn. > > Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center, commented, > “Rob Muise did an outstanding job advocating on behalf of Free Speech rights > protected by our Constitution, despite unsubstantiated police claims that > peaceful conversations with Muslims were going to incite a disturbance. The > bottom line in the jury’s not guilty verdict: the Constitution, not Shariah > law, still prevails in Dearborn, Michigan.” > > *Click here to see video * <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJSwfalU5Gc> > > > You are receiving this email because you subscribed to receive emails from > www.thomasmore.org. If you wish to unsubscribe, *click > here*<http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=30&_function=unsubscribe&[email protected]>. > > > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
