Police urge residents to stay home as ‘Christian Crusader March’ looms
As anti-Islam protesters allegedly plan to come to next week's city council meeting in Dearborn, police are telling residents that it's best to just avoid them.
"Please stay home. These groups that are coming here are coming for one reason, and that is to provoke a reaction and generate attention. If nobody shows up to react, they have nothing," Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin said in a video.
Dearborn police say they will have an "enhanced presence" at the Aug. 18 city council meeting and a comprehensive plan to ensure everyone's safety.
The message from Shahin comes as groups of people, allegedly led by Jake Lang, may be planning on coming to Dearborn next Tuesday. Lang has visited Dearborn before and was seen walking around the streets and going to city council meetings, shouting Islamophobic rhetoric and harassing residents.
"He (Lang) needs to get out of here, if I'm being completely honest, he needs to get out of here," Dearborn resident Zayne Whitson told CBS Detroit.
On Wednesday, Dearborn City Councilmember Kamal Alsawafy said, "Everybody is entitled to their First Amendment rights, but there's a difference between expressing an opinion and deliberately coming into a community to provoke people because of their faith."
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/dea...g-to-city/
As anti-Islam protesters allegedly plan to come to next week's city council meeting in Dearborn, police are telling residents that it's best to just avoid them.
"Please stay home. These groups that are coming here are coming for one reason, and that is to provoke a reaction and generate attention. If nobody shows up to react, they have nothing," Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin said in a video.
Dearborn police say they will have an "enhanced presence" at the Aug. 18 city council meeting and a comprehensive plan to ensure everyone's safety.
The message from Shahin comes as groups of people, allegedly led by Jake Lang, may be planning on coming to Dearborn next Tuesday. Lang has visited Dearborn before and was seen walking around the streets and going to city council meetings, shouting Islamophobic rhetoric and harassing residents.
"He (Lang) needs to get out of here, if I'm being completely honest, he needs to get out of here," Dearborn resident Zayne Whitson told CBS Detroit.
On Wednesday, Dearborn City Councilmember Kamal Alsawafy said, "Everybody is entitled to their First Amendment rights, but there's a difference between expressing an opinion and deliberately coming into a community to provoke people because of their faith."
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/dea...g-to-city/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
