Who are Acts 17 Apologetics?

Liars or Saints?

I was sent a screenshot from a person known as 'Trisha Bale'. She was able to obtain a screenshot in which Paul Rezkalla replies to Yahya's video. Paul Rezkalla appears to be a neophyte when it comes to discussing scripture, but does well to participate with the Acts 17 Team on their crazed escapades. Click the picture to enlarge. If you're too lazy to wait for the picture to load, I've posted the text version below the picture:

"I wonder why you are so quick to side against Christians. This liar, Yahya Snow has no idea what he is talking about, he lives in England yet he thinks he knows so much of what is going on here in the USA. He raises claims of David and Sam being thrown out of ISNA...they were invited in, no? Why were they invited in, in the first place? Why were they kicked out? Hmm? They were not kicked out, they left because the sheikh that they were taking to was yelling and pushing them. Please get all the facts before you make assumptions and side with people who are blatantly lying. Just because Nabeel says some officers were good to us, does not mean that NO ONE in the entire police department of Dearborn made sexual comments about our sister. Yes some officers were nice to us, and some were not. There is no contradiction there. When the videos are released, a lot of people will be shown for the liars that they are. How do you know that we are lying and that Yahya is telling the truth? And if David wants to use donations to buy Sam a computer with their funds, he is certainly entitled to. That is their money. David always tells his donors what the money will be used for, it is their choice if they want to donate or not. Yes David did try to kill a man, but we all did evil before coming to Christ, the Apostle Paul persecuted an arrested Christians before He encountered our Lord and had his life radically changed. The same is true for David, He is a man who loves the Lord now, and this is evident by all his self-sacrifice. You are obviously biased. I hope that you will see the truth. We love you sister."

Please note that Paul Rezkalla claims that they were not thrown out of the conference. We have evidence that the original creator of the video (who IS an Acts 17 Team member, no doubt) filmed the video using his android phone, confirms that they were thrown out of ISNA. Please see the relevant picture below or video page, and read the description. I provide the text of the description underneath the picture:

"This is Sam and David being thrown out of the ISNA conference after we were invited in. The black man is the Shiek that Sam was supposed to debate."

Furthermore, another post also reveals that David Wood's sock-puppet Nabeel Qureshi had this to say:

Nabeel Qureshi writes:

Hey Trisha--

No one was kicked out of ISNA. Notice, the video Yahya posted shows no one getting kicked out, nor does anyone say in the video that they were being kicked out. It's as if I were to post a video showing OJ Simpson in court, titling it "OJ admits to killing his wife!" and counting that as evidence even if there is no admission whatsoever.

Yet somehow you consider this lame argument a reason for us to clean up our ministries, and you're adversarial enough to post it on the pages of many of my friends. You're on a fast-track to coming off my friends list.

Trisha Bale writes:

We have eye-witnesses and we can contact those officials. Do you really want us to get their testimonies? Up to you ;)

Nabeel Qureshi writes:

Go for it - either people will speak the truth (and thus further vindicate us) or falsehood (thus providing God an opportunity to use their guilt to turn them towards repentance).

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Indeed Nabeel Qureshi. The game is over. Even your own team member admitted that Sam Shamoun and David Wood were thrown out of ISNA. You tried too hard, you fool.

Update - The creator of the video decided to send kufrtokufr, who then relayed it to us, a little explanation which you can find below for your convenience:

"First thanks for ripping off my video, That's real integrity. Second thanks for being deceptive like all Muslims are.

Sorry to confuse you with the FACTS. But here they are.

1. ISNA is a expensive event. Ticket prices over $100 dollars. We did not purchase tickets.

2. We were happy to be outside of the Rosemont Theater on Saturday and Sunday. This video was shot on Sunday night.

3. We were INVITED, yes INVITED into ISNA by a BURKA BABE (you can see her in the first video) to speak to a sheik, on Sunday night.

4. The Sheik started screaming "Paul is a liar, Al Quartab is a Liar, the DISCIPLES were liars" It was after this point that we decided to leave, the Shiek actually grabbed Sam and said "Your not going anywhere... I got you I got you" He also started telling that to others that had gathered around. "I got him I got this..." etc... It was after this point that I started filming with my phone.

6. Security came up and asked to see our passes. We didnt have any as I stated above and we explained that we were invited in by the Burka Babe.

7. We were informed by security that since we didn't have any passes we had to leave, and that the Burka Babe did not have the authority to invite anyone into the conference with out a pass. So that was it, no arrest, no trouble we were invited in by someone who did not have the authority to invite us in.

Those are the facts, So sorry to disappoint you. But hey your a Muslim so i'm sure you wont let facts get in the way of your agenda.

One more thing I was given a Quran, I did not want to set it down on the ground as this would offend Muslims so I asked one of the Muslims to hold it for me. After we were leaving I went up to the Muslim who was holding the Quran I was given and asked for it back. He said "No This is My Quran"

So he stole my Quran. So much for Muslims being honest.

I am not related to ACts 17 Apologetics in anyway shape or form."

Nabeel Qureshi, The Pathological Liar

Dearborn Mayor and Dearborn Police, a few Muslims have evidence that Acts 17 Apologetics did cause quite a stir at the ISNA 2010 Conference at Chicago along with their co-conspirator Sam Shamoun. Kados to YouTuber & Blogger Yahya Snow!:

Blocked by Acts 17 Apologetics

I have just been blocked and banned by Acts 17 Apologetics from posting any comments on their videos. It's only been a few seconds since my last post and they decided to use the ban hammer! Check out this picture for evidence of their frantic move to stop propaganda critical of them!:

Freedom of Speech 2

My link to their video response to the mayor has been changed, you can catch it here. There reason for changing the link to their video was not given, but you can see their post on their website (below):

Here's a picture of their video as it as of now (below). See if you can make out any differences between this picture and the picture from my last post.

Take a glance at the side bar of both pictures. What are they running from?

Freedom of Speech

You can catch Nabeel Qureshi' new video here. I've posted some comments under the username 'Besmikov'. I've attached a picture so we can compare whether they delete my comments or ban me later from posting. It's surprising that when I mentioned 'kufrtokufr' on their blog that my comment was censored from appearing. All we can do is wait and see what they do next! Make sure to check out the screen shot! (P.S. You may have to download and zoom in to get a better look)

Kufr-to-Kufr

I recently posted a message on www.answeringmuslims.com and was censored for my comment. I did some more research and came across a video that detailed reasons why they ready to censor anything that mentioned the word 'kufrtokufr' :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anG7uGvISeE

And they want to debate Muslims....

Responses to Common Questions: Part 1

We'll start off by dismantling the the falsehoods of Acts 17 Apologetic's June 23, 2010 post:

I haven’t really been following the comments, since I’m waiting for police to return our illegally seized video cameras, which will show that Nabeel was peacefully sharing his views with Muslims who were insulting and threatening him. It is obvious to everyone that Chief Haddad has not given us the footage because it is extremely embarrassing for his department, and because the footage proves that our rights were repeatedly violated.

Here David mentions that Muslims were not just part of the problem, they were the root of the problem. They also give us a one-sided view by stating 'it's obvious to everyone', referring to those who support their fan base, that Chief Haddad did not return the cameras because the situation was embarrassing for the police. Who said it's embarrassing? David Wood of Acts 17 Apologetics.

However, my wife went through some of the comments and came up with a list of some of the most common objections to what happened. I typed in some brief responses. I’ll probably add to the list as more comments come in.

So, what we see is a tag-team effort by Wood and his wife - nothing news worthy aside from the fact that Wood can't clean up his own mess.

Q: How can you say that you were harassed and persecuted when other Christian groups, such as Josh McDowell’s, were not harassed and persecuted?

A: There are three general reactions to the rights violations at the Arab Festival. First, some accept the oppression, praise the Muslims at the festival, praise the mayor, and praise the police department, regardless of how Christians are being harassed. The goal is to get into position to distribute something to the Muslims despite the obstacles. This was the approach of certain ministries. Second, some seek to expose the oppression, while still following the rules. The goal is to draw attention to injustice, so that Dearborn will eventually have to correct the injustice. This was the approach of Nabeel, Paul, Negeen, and me. Third, some disobey the festival rules. This was the approach of a few Christians who handed out materials despite the unconstitutional rule against it.

It shouldn’t be difficult to understand why police and security would harass people who follow the second approach, while ignoring people who follow the first approach. The goal of Chief Haddad and the Dearborn Police Department is to reduce Christians to dhimmitude. Christians who accept that they are second-class citizens are welcome. Christians who insist that they have Constitutional rights are harassed, and even arrested.

David Wood tries to justify the charges of indictment laid against him and the rest of the Acts Team by listing there general reactions to the rights violations at the Arab Festival. We'll list them again for the sake of clarity:

1. Some accept oppression and blindly 'praise the Muslims', 'praise the mayor', and 'praise the police department'.

2. Some expose the oppressions, 'while still following the rules', notably Acts 17 Apologetics (the only missionary to be arrested on that day).

3. Some disobeyed the festivals rules by handing out Christian material.

What's interesting about this list is that it ostensibly proclaims to expand the reader's understanding of the the socio-political situation at Dearborn Michigan. Lets look at some census reports to see if their claim of ubiquitous oppression stands. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2006 the approximate population of Dearborn was 92,382. A 2000 census reports that the Arab population was a robust 29,181 at a time when the population was 97,775. With the advent of 9/11 immigration become more selective and the collective increase of Arab and Muslim immigrants in Dearborn, let alone the United States, came to an abrupt halt. It's safe to say that despite the recent fall in population of Dearborn the ratio of Arabs to non-Arabs has remained 29.8% or roughly 30.0%. Does it surprise you that David and Nabeel chose one of America's Top Ten heavily populated Arab cities to do their missionary work? But not all Arabs are Muslims, so to say that Sharia has been adopted by Dearborn's security forces is but an idle claim. The Acts Team's claim that Sharia is being practiced by law officials would make more sense if the Muslim population was greater than or equal to 50% of residing persons of the city, but even the population of Arabs hasn't broken 30%. The current demographics show that Muslims cannot be in majority and therefore the city's judicial system was only acting in accordance with the law on the day of David's and Nabeel's arrest.

We now know why David Wood associated 'Muslims' with the words 'mayor' and 'police department'. It was to justify that Dearborn was somehow under threat of a booming Muslim population in Dearborn. Points 2 and 3 are of lesser importance and are auxiliary in his attempt to convince his fan base that Christians are being subjugated by Dearborn's Muslim populace. Are they being serious?

Q: Why did you bring video cameras, knowing that this would upset people?

A: We learned last year that Muslims won’t hesitate to lie about us in an effort to get rid of us. Our cameras vindicated us last year and proved that security was persecuting Christians. Security had been harassing Christians all weekend. The only difference was that we got the abuse on tape. Hence, we were careful to record everything this year, because we knew that someone would probably pull the same dishonest stunt. And we were right. A volunteer lied about us and said that we surrounded him and harassed him. We can only prove that this is a lie because we have the supposed incident on tape. If we didn’t have cameras, the charges would stand.

I would just like to add that it’s a sad state of affairs when a Christian can’t walk among Muslims without a camera because so many Muslims are willing to lie about Christians. I would be horrified if Christians were so renowned for dishonesty that people were scared to walk among us without getting video footage. Can anyone seriously object to the cameras, given the fact that people have tried to get us into trouble through deception two years running?

First thing to note is that David makes the bold statement that, 'Muslims wont hesitate to lie about us in an effort to get rid of us.' Two stereotypical assertions are made: 1) Muslims are liars. 2) Muslims don't like Christians (within context).

Secondly he says that, "our cameras vindicated us last year..." The question then arises who were they exactly vindicated from? The Muslims of Dearborn? He further goes on to say, "and proved that security was persecuting Christians." Astounding! What a childish claim to accuse the security for persecution and discrimination, considering that many Arabs, especially the Lebanese, are Christian folk - who were largely present at the Arab Festival 2009. David also claims that security had been 'harassing Christians all weekend" - slightly disconcerting considering that Acts 17 Apologetics was the only ministry to report the persecution and on tape. I smell a rat, do you? What grabbed my attention was the following quote, "Can anyone seriously object to the cameras, given the fact that people have tried to get us into trouble through deception two years running?" This then begs the question how could people have used deception 'two years running' when David just mentioned that they were able to catch the persecution on tape.

Q: Why did you go to the festival even after you had been threatened, knowing that there could be problems?

A: We don’t believe in backing down from Muslim threats and intimidation, as this only encourages Muslims to engage in further threats and intimidation. Hence, if we’re told, “Stay off of this public street or else,” we’re probably not going to stay away.

One could question the veracity of David's answer. David states that his entire team 'doesn't believe in backing down from Muslim threats and intimidation," but is he being truthful? Did David and Nabeel go to the Arab Fest 2010 because they simply didn't want to back away from a threat or were they looking for something controversial to report on the collective Muslim populace of Dearborn?

Stay tuned for Part 2....