DEARBORN: Pastor gets OK for handouts
A Christian pastor can distribute literature on the streets at this weekend’s Arab-American festival along Warren Avenue in Dearborn, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
George Saieg of California wants to hand out pamphlets aimed at converting Muslims.
The Thursday ruling overturned a District Court decision that supported Dearborn’s policy, which said Saieg and anyone else must hand out literature only around their booths because of crowd control concerns.
The Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center filed suit on behalf of Saieg.
Once-banned professor to address fund-raiser
Tariq Ramadan, a noted Muslim scholar, is to speak tonight in Dearborn at a fund-raiser for the Muslim Legal Fund, a Texas-based nonprofit. He is to speak about rights, duties and justice at the 6 p.m. banquet at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn. Tickets are $30.
Ramadan was banned from visiting the U.S. under the Bush administration, but had his ban lifted this year by the U.S. State Department.