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Update on Acts 17 Apologetics

August 4, 2010 at 4:16 PM Leave a comment

Here is an update on the Acts 17 Apologetics evangelists who were arrested outside the Muslim Festival at Dearborn, MI.  Newt Gingrich is weighing in on the issue (see below).  IF the city overstepped its bounds, then they are wrong.  IF the evangelists overstepped their bounds, they are wrong.  Who will decide?  The courts.

The other issue here concerns Sharia Law, as Gingrich points out.  Whether this is a case of Sharia Law being foisted upon non-Muslims or not remains to be seen.  However, even if this is not, others will be.  It is important for Christians to be aware of what is happening in this country.  Are we going to see more mosques start popping up around the country?  I’m certain of it.  Anything wrong with that?  Not from a religious perspective, however, since (as I have stated) Islam is a religion, a political and a military movement, then it becomes a problem.

With respect to the Ground Zero mosque, it’s just a mosque, right?  Not to Muslims.  As far as Islam is concerned, it is an icon of victory; the battle won against infidels on 9/11.  The mosque will serve as a reminder to all Muslims that Islam made headway into America, the “Great Satan.”  It will forever be a sign of victory that Allah provided over the beast.

Sharia Law is definitely coming to America and frankly, I doubt that there is little anyone can do to stop it, since it is so wrapped up within the religious context of Islam.  How will it happen?  The same way it has happened in the Netherlands and is now happening in Great Britain.

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Detroit — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is defending the actions of four Christian missionaries arrested in June in Dearborn as they tried to convert Muslims to Christianity during the Arab International Festival.

The four — Negeen Mayel, 18, of California; Nabeel Qureshi, 29, of Virginia; Paul Rezkalla, 18, of New York; and David Wood, 34, also of New York — were arrested June 18 in Dearborn. They were arraigned July 12 on fines of up to $500 each and up to 93 days in jail.

Dearborn police said July 12 that the four self-described missionaries “chose to escalate their behavior, which appeared well-orchestrated and deliberate” as they handed out religious literature and talked with people at the festival. The woman and three men are members or founders of a group called “Acts 17 Apologetics.”

In a July 28 e-newsletter, Gingrich defended the four.

“They were … on a public street outside an Arab festival in a way that is completely permissible by law, but, of course, forbidden by sharia’s rules on proselytizing,” said Gingrich, a Republican, referring to the missionaries passing out literature. “This is a clear case of freedom of speech and the exercise of religious freedom being sacrificed in deference to sharia’s intolerance against the preaching of religions other than Islam.”

Sharia law is a set of religious laws based on the Islamic Holy Book, the Quran.

“Cases like this will become all the more common as radical Islamists grow more and more aggressive in the United States,” Gingrich wrote about the missionaries’ case and others pointed out in the newsletter.

The missionaries are due back in court Aug. 30.

bwilliams@detnews.com (313) 222-2027 Detroit News Staff Writer Steve Pardo contributed.

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