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flockwoodChristian missionaries were arrested this weekend after they attempted to share their faith with Muslims. Four missionaries to be precise. Witnessing to Muslims, you’ll recall, is a violation of sharia law.
Q. Which country did the arrests occurred in?
1.) Cameroon
2.) Canada
3.) Dubai
4.) Denmark
5.) Ethiopia
6.) England
7.) United Arab Emirates
8.) United States
The correct answer is: 8. The United States. For more details,click here.
June 21st, 2010 at 10:27 am
Goodness, for a moment there I thought you meant that the missionaries were arrested BECAUSE they were proselytizing. Whew! Instead they were charged with disturbing the peace, for intentionally disrupting an event.
June 21st, 2010 at 11:06 am
Good for the cops. If this kind of handling had occurred earlier in the saga of the Westboro Baptist Church nonsense maybe we would all have been spared that embarrassment, too.
June 21st, 2010 at 1:58 pm
They were not creating the disturbance, in the way we usually think of it. Go watch their Youtube video, and witness the truth. Just being there an talking peacefully, leads onlookers to get disturbed.
Is a woman is at fault for being punched, when she runs her mouth to her husband who tells her to shut up? She “caused the disturbance” with her words, right?
June 21st, 2010 at 3:33 pm
I think the Youtube video is of last year’s disturbance, not this year’s: “Qureshi, a recent convert to Christianity, caused controversy last year after he and another one of the men arrested Friday produced a video posted on YouTube that shows them getting into a dispute with people and security at last year’s festival.”
I don’t know what they were doing this year, but come on: Is a festival of 300,000 Arabs exactly the best place to proselytize? How would we feel if the muslims showed up at every Christmas party and leafleted?
June 21st, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Your headline was misleading. They were not arrested for sharing their faith. They were arresting because they did the equivalent of yelling fire in a closed building. Any person with any common sense would know that going into a crowd of Muslim and proselytising an opposing faith will bring more that rain on top of their heads. It has since the Crusades. They intentionally provokes them. You need a new editor.
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:32 am
As an attorney, you ought to know better than to compare this to shouting fire in a crowded building. It’s a lousy analogy. This is, perhaps, closer to the “fighting words” exception to the First Amendment.
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Sharing the gospel is now “fighting words”? Lets focus on the problem: Muslim overreaction, not the speech itself.
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:48 pm
It would be misleading, to the point of deceit, to represent this as a simple example of “sharing the Gospel”. Any reasonable person could list a number of more effective ways that these missionaries could have witnessed to Muslims without breaking the law, infringing on the rights of others to be left alone, or violating common sense. Likewise, any reasonable person could list a number of proselytizing practices that they would consider to be just plain wrong. (If not then perhaps we should send some VERY persistent JWs to their offices during the work day or to their homes at midnight.)
Let’s be honest, these folks were spoiling for a fight. What they did might be legal and it might be effective publicity for their cause but let’s don’t describe it in the simple terms of “sharing the Gospel”. It’s quite likely that a great many Muslims came away with a less favorable view of Christianity. Ask yourself why someone would do that intentionally.
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Jose is exactly right. These guys are using the same PR strategy used by the Westboro Baptist Church. They are deliberately placing themselves into situations where they know trouble will result, and then they use the trouble to get attention for themselves. If they were oh so offended I doubt they would have posted last year’s video on Youtube.
The problem with this kind of thing is that they’ll wade into the wrong crowd of Arabs some day and stir up a fight and the police won’t get there in time to save their trouble making butts. I doubt they’ll post that video on Youtube.
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:21 pm
That’s why they carry cameras. They want to have evidence to use in court in case someone lashes out at them physically.
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Islam is a religion of peace, why there should be fighting, if there is respect for freedom of speech? Where is common sense for Islamic group? In Billy Gram’s large gathering in public places, there are many examples where opposition group spread their version of truth without violence. Of course, in Muslim countries reality is different, spreading religious literatures other than Islam at public places, may end up with murder by public fist and stone throwing. We should know the truth before we pass judgment. Report did not say how they created nonsense. As per “sharia law” once you are Muslim you are sealed for rest of your life, violator would be hanged, as we found in Afghanistan in recent years. Both Islam and other religions have right to propagate their faith.
July 12th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
I agree with Jose and Caleb on this one. As a former missionary, there is no way I would have entered a crowd gathered of another faith in an attempt to gain converts, unless I had been expressly invited. Whether they should have been arrested or not is for the courts to decide, but their thinking should obviously be questioned.
July 17th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
In an open society, it is unbelievable to think of difficulties of expressing different thoughts oppose to mainstream, in this case large gathering of a particular faith. Matter of facts Christ has been dissected unjustly by anti-Christ, thru painting, movie, books, etc., through out the world without any violent resulting killing of innocent people, burning of effigy, property etc., why should be exception for a particular faith group, when any other group spread their faith without trespassing private property? Are we afraid of speaking out truth? Tolerance of different opinion is fruit of democracy is also fruit of Christ’s love.