Taxpayers lose $100,000 for Dearborn’s illegal enforcement of sharia law

From Creeping Sharia:

Taxpayers lose $100,000 for Dearborn’s illegal enforcement of sharia law

Posted on March 2, 2012 by creeping

via City of Dearborn, Michigan pays $100,000 in lawsuit by evangelists | Michigan Radio.

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) – The city of Dearborn has paid $100,000 in legal fees to attorneys for a Christian evangelist whose free-speech rights were violated at a popular Arab-American street festival.

Dearborn has a large Muslim population and one of the nation’s biggest concentrations of people with roots in the Arab world. 

City police in 2010 barred George Saieg and his allies from freely walking sidewalks with literature to convert Muslims to Christianity. Chief Ron Haddad says he was just controlling foot traffic, but a federal appeals court says the city violated the First Amendment.

The court says allowing the evangelists on the festival’s perimeter wasn’t good enough.

As the prevailing party, Saieg was entitled to legal fees and other costs from Dearborn. His lawyers say the money was paid last week.

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