Detroit Free Press: Missionaries arrested at Arab festival in Dearborn

[marmar]

Posted: June 20, 2010
Missionaries arrested at Arab festival in Dearborn

BY NIRAJ WARIKOO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


Four Christian missionaries trying to convert Muslims were arrested and jailed Friday for disorderly conduct at an Arab festival in Dearborn, police said.

"We did make four arrests for disorderly conduct," Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad said Saturday. "They did cause a stir."

Nabeel Qureshi of Virginia and David Wood of New York, both with a Christian group called Acts 17 Apologetics, were arrested with two others after they were said to be causing disruptive behavior, police said.

The four, who were at the Dearborn Arab International Festival, were later released on bail.

Qureshi described the arrest on the Acts 17 blog at www.answeringmuslims.com.

Reached by phone Saturday, Qureshi refused to comment. Wood could not be reached for comment; e-mails sent to him earlier were not returned. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20100620/NEWS02/6200421/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The participants should have tried to convert the Christian missionaries.

[MrScorpio]

2. These so-called Christian assholes were begging to be arrested

Now they have some much desired publicity,

I'm sure that they're looking at this as a win-win situation.

[Ken Burch]

3. They were probably hoping to be martyred.

(those types have NOTHING to do with ACTUAL Christianity...and they're the same sorts who endangered NGO workers in Afghanistan by pretending to just be there to provide aid and then proselytizing.)


Jesus would NOT be down with these creeps.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. Jesus was a bad ass. He said some rather hateful things.

"I come not in peace, but with a sword ..." is but one example.

He was into sending people to hell if they didn't like his preaching and he thought all that mass murder in the OT was just peachy keen. Oh yeah, and cussing out a fig tree for not fruiting out of season. Yeah, cussing out plants for acting in their plant nature.

As far as a guide to morality, about 99% of what's in the bible, is cruel and arbitrary, and the parts that tell people to love one another have nothing original about them that is not found in the basic tenets of any sane religion or morality.

But yes, those Christians (and please don't use the No True Scotsman fallacy) are a bunch of arrogant idiots. They can feel martyred and self-righteous. They don't understand that a billion or so Muslims believe that "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet", just as fervently as they believe their stories.

Religion is always a matter of opinion. One person's opinion against another's.

[Warpy]

4. I wonder how those self righteous pricks would feel

if Muslims or any other people from other religious traditions--or atheists--crashed their functions and tried to convert them.

Yeah, right.

I'm glad they got arrested, it was appropriate and besides, they'll get to feel like pious Christian martyrs for the rest of their lousy lives.

[Webster Green]

5. Their Saviour wasn't real big on this kind of shit.

Be good Christians and go to your rooms and pray.

Assholes!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Tell that to the money changers in the temple

I am no xtain, but even I know that much of the new testament

[Webster Green]

9. That was the other thing that really pissed him off.

:thumbsup:

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. Disorderly conduct normally means contempt of cop

They were probably told to knock it off and challenged the cops as to why. Happens every day all over this country.


We hate it when it happens to us, but applaud it when it happens to those we disagree with.

[KonaKane]

8. Unbelievable arrogance

I dont know what gets into some of these people to act in a such a way, especially at such an inappropriate time and place.

[madrchsod]

10. this shit happened last year or the year before.....

if i remember correctly the christian zealots were fighting about access and dearborn allowed them to set up on the sidewalk out side of the festival grounds...

i really dislike any zealots of the middle eastern religions that thinks their`s is somehow better than any other.

[SoxFan]

11. Aren't a lot of Michigan Arabs Melkite Catholic?

Not that it would matter with this sort of group.

[Gaedel]

13. Michigan has a long tradition

of Maronite Christian immigrants from Lebanon. It has only been in the last thirty years that a Muslim majority has become the norm.

[JCMach1]

15. Lebanese Maronites... quite a lot

[sufrommich]

16. I would venture a guess that at least 60% of the Arabs there

were most likely christians. You run into more christian arabs than muslim arabs in the Detroit area.

[miscsoc]

14. I bet innumerable right wing idiots are saying that if it was Muslims they'd get away with it

Which is obviously untrue - if a bunch of evangelizing Muslims did this at some Christian gathering they'd be told by the police to quit or end up in the cells.