The officers present on the scene, instead of ending the illegal assault by the Muslim mob, chose instead to turn their backs and allow the attack to continue. They stated later that the Christians were the ones inciting the violence because of their signs and t-shirts.
This was an obvious violation of free speech rights, but the cops instead chose to take the side of the Muslims.
This isn’t the first time this has happened at an Arab event. Christians were previously awarded $100,000 in damages from such an Muslim attack.
Perhaps the Christian group that was assaulted in 2012 will receive justice for the attack they suffered physically as well as the attack on their free speech rights now that the 6th Circuit judges has agreed to re-hear the case (the first court dismissed the case the first time around).
“The panel’s [overturned] decision rewards violence over protected speech and thus incorporates into the First Amendment what is known as a ‘heckler’s veto.’ We are confident that the full court will reverse this ‘dangerously wrong’ decision,” he said.
The 6th Circuit’s rules note that granting such a re-hearing is rare.
“A petition for rehearing en banc is an extraordinary procedure intended to bring to the attention of the entire court a precedent-setting error of exceptional public importance.”
The dissent from the panel’s decision that earlier had dismissed the case said: “The majority’s first error is its conclusion that the First Amendment did not protect [the Christians’] speech. This is not only wrong, it is dangerously wrong.”
AFLC co-founder David Yerushalmi said the First Amendment “is under assault by both Muslim supremacists and Islamists on the one hand and progressives advocating ‘hate-speech’ crimes on the other.”
“The result is a shrinking arena of free speech with government bureaucrats and cultural and civilizational jihadists dictating what is and is not acceptable speech,” he said. “Maybe, just maybe, the Sixth Circuit has decided to draw the line in the sand to protect against any further encroachment upon the sphere of this First Amendment freedom.”
AFLC said the rock-throwing incident left members of the evangelism team bloodied while deputies from the Wayne County sheriff’s office stood by. Then, when Ruben Israel, the leader of the evangelists, asked officers to enforce the law so that Christians could speak, he was told to either leave or be arrested.
“Whether you agree or disagree with the Christians’ message, there is one issue to which there is no dispute: no citizen should be stoned in a city street in America for exercising his constitutional right to freedom of speech,” Muise said when the case developed.
“And what makes this case so egregious is that law enforcement officers were present and made the conscious choice to allow the Muslim mob to silence the Christian speakers through violence. Indeed, the video of the incident looks like something you would see in the Middle East, not in the United States,” he said.
“While it is shocking to see video of Christians being stoned in the United States for criticizing Islam, it is not necessarily surprising that this incident occurred in Dearborn, Michigan, a city where the mayor and law enforcement have consistently violated Christians’ free speech rights in favor of appeasing a large Muslim population and where, in line with the Islamic legal dictates of sharia, the Christian Gospel is treated as criminally offensive speech, and violence ‘for the sake of Allah’ is reinforced by arresting or removing the Christians. What you are witnessing on the video is the enforcement of sharia by a hostile mob and law enforcement aiding and abetting,” Yerushalmi added.
WND reported only a few months before the stoning incident that a court had found local officials in Dearborn liable for $100,000 in damages for arresting a Christian pastor who wanted to hand out Christian tracts at the same festival in 2009.
Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen then recommend fees and costs totaling $103,401.96 be awarded in the case, which was handled by attorney Muise on behalf of Christian Pastor George Saieg.
Muise, at the time, was with the Thomas More Law Center.
I have no pity for Muslims period. Now I do think some Christians are a bit loud and if it is just move along. I am a born again Christian and believe we need to show our Love for God. And spread his word but you can’t act like you are to make people listen to you. But it would be wonderful if the Muslims knew who Jesus is. That he is the Son of the living God. Now if you read this and you are offended by it , remember I didn’t force it on you. Jesus loves us all.
Don’t you just love those peace loving Muslims!
If Trump Would Just Enforce The #Already Law of 1952 That Says Muslims are NOT Allowed in America we wouldn’t have this B******t happening here …We Better Do Something Soon Or We Will End Up Like Europe
When is our SO-CALLED CONGRESS, THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN CITIZENS, GOING TO DO IT???
APPARENTLY, THEY DON’T BELIEVE IN OUR CONSTITUTION ANY LONGER! WHY DO WE KEEP PAYING THEM, FOR THEIR INACTIONS!
Now, SHARIA LAW IS BECOMING THE LAW, THAT’S TOTALLY AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION OF AMERICA!
WHEN ARE WE THE PEOPLE GOING STAND UP AND SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! AND FIGHT AGAINST THESE ATROCITIES!!
AND QUIT TALKING AND TAKE CONTROL OF AMERICA AGAIN???
It going to take a catastrophic revolt to rid our country of the this scummy cult…..why did our government let this happen???? They knew what these muslims are capable of…and these money hungry politicians let in the Trojan horse in and it will be to the detriment of the American patriots…..PLEASE WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!