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Video evidence is so… inconvenient at times! Good job, David!

A jury Friday acquitted four Christian missionaries who were accused of inciting a crowd while videotaping themselves proselytizing to Muslims at the Dearborn Arab International Festival in June. Nabeel Qureshi of Virginia, Negeen Mayel of California, and Paul Rezkalla and David Wood, both of New York, were acquitted of breach of peace, 19th District Court officials in Dearborn said after

The debate will take place live, via Skype, at 8pm EDT. You can watch live here. Watch, and pray!

Someone really needs to challenge the use of “Veritas” for these gatherings. Meanwhile, the gospel keeps getting trampled under foot by the Great Evangelical Cover Up. Note the assertion of Mr. Khan that Christians “fear” people becoming Muslims in this new video exposing more of Ergun Caner’s fundamental ignorance of the very field he is viewed as the leading expert

I had a chance to sit down with Anees Zaka and ask the question. Nothing professional about the recording.

Last evening I attempted to reason with Dr. Jones, of “Burn the Qur’an” fame, on ABN last night. At least I tried, and made my offer to him! My call begins 3:15 into the following video, and concludes in the second video:

As the media ramps up for the “Qur’an Burning Crisis” of 9/11/10 (can you really believe this?) I simply had to make a further comment (beyond what I said on the DL yesterday). I’m against the burning of the Qur’an because it is not accompanied with any meaningful discussion of the errors of the Qur’an, let alone a positive presentation

I think I can now retire from Islamic apologetics. What is there left for me to do? After this Oscar-winning performance, I need to cancel all my future ABN appearances out of sheer embarrassment. Did David study under Olivier? At the feet of Shakespeare? The style, the grace…sheer genius. Of course, the point of the video is two-fold; one to

Greenville Seminary is hosting a class on Islam the week of September 6-10. The instructor is Anees Zaka is founder and senior missionary of Church Without Wall, based in Philadelphia, PA. He is authored numerous books including this one, reviewed here and this book both published by P&R. You can listen to Zaka preach on “All Hail the Power of

Please share this with your Muslim friends, family, co-workers.

Please pray for the great folks at ABN (www.abnsat.com). Believe me, you get a lot of opposition when you take the stands they do on Islam. I just booked my flights to return to ABN in December after speaking (for the eleventh year!) at the Covenant of Grace Church in St. Charles December 3-5, 2010. I will be on ABN

I had not intended to utilize this material. I commented on what brought this “discussion” about right after it took place, here. This morning Mr. Gulam posted on our Facebook page a question. He asked why I was “hiding” our “debate.” Well, this isn’t a debate, of course, and we have been hiding nothing. I was given the DVD of

Now, I would normally not link to anything featuring Osama Abdullah. I just do not believe he is a relevant apologist for Islam, and I think I demonstrated that a few years ago. But this debate took place on ABN using Skype, and I may be doing this in a little over a month, so I was interested in seeing

A lot of development has taken place over the past few weeks in the Acts 17/Dearborn situation, but with my traveling and the debates I have coming up, I haven’t had time to try to keep up here on the blog. But I knew that eventually the video of the “encounter” that was the original foundation of the action of

Here is an interesting debate between Tony Costa and Bassam Zawadi on whether Mohammad had assurance of salvation. Obviously, for me, the key here is the grounds of salvation, and how this differs so fundamentally between Christianity and Islam. I posted these on my own site because what Tony possesses as a debater, he lacks as a geek. In fact,

The following video was posted two weeks ago. It is titled, “Arrested in Dearborn? Not! Sharia Love in Dearborn 2010.” It was posted by Josh McDowell’s ministry. Let’s leave aside, for the moment, the inappropriateness of the background music. The accusation that has been repeated for the past number of weeks is simple. How can folks like Josh McDowell get

And we wondered why the Dearborn PD held onto those cameras for so long…. I sure hope there is a means of remedying the filing of simple lies in police reports.

We finally have video of the arrest of David Wood and Nabeel Qureshi in Dearborn. I am truly incensed. I am incensed, of course, at the grossly unconstitutional actions of the Dearborn PD (and the clearly politically based cover up by the Dearborn city government, especially the chief of police and the mayor, that has followed). I am not really

Listen here.

For the few who are interested in the brief statement I made (styled a “lie” by the PPO&D, the “promoters of perpetual outrage and dishonesty”—a new term I have quoted for a certain very small, very irrelevant, but very vocal group of Muslim trouble-makers) at one point in the debate with Sheikh Awal, pointing out the contradiction between his asserting

This is a debate I’d like to attend, and will surely be listening to the recording as soon as it is available.

I note that it would be just fine if a Muslim stood on the same corners and passed out the Qur’an. I have stood on street corners passing out Christian literature in Mesa, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, and elsewhere, for decades. But not in Dearborn, Michigan. Think about it.

I’m a “Who Moved My Cheese?” type of guy. Don’t let me plan and plan and prepare and then, at the very last second, change everything around. As it was this evening I was having to adjust to the movement of my cheese in adjusting to Sheikh Awal’s sudden and dishonorable withdrawal from our debate. But I at least had

I am truly disgusted. I just got off the phone with Sheikh Awal. Here is the situation: the members of the mosque that is hosting him have demanded that he not debate me tonight. Why? Because David Wood was arrested at the Arabic Festival a few days ago. Miss the connection? So do I, and so does any honest, rational

It will be past 2am EDT when I finish this, but I wanted to get a quick report up on the blog before I vegetate for, I hope, at least 7.5 hours. I started the day at the Berean Baptist Church, doing the early and late services, and the Bible Study in between. I spoke on the reliability of the

If you have trouble with the player, you can go to the ABN website directly. Enjoy, and join us tonight as well for another live episode!

I tweeted from my phone late last night that David Wood, Nabeel Qureshi (Acts 17 Apologetics Ministry) and two other Christians were arrested and taken away in handcuffs by the Dearborn, MI police. I had been informed of this as soon as we finished the early edition of “Jesus or Muhammad?” on ABN (as soon as the video is posted

The Center for Religious Debate is hosting several debates this week in Romulus Michigan. Somehow, someway, I have no idea why, the schedule that we were given and posted on AOMin.org was errant. We owe many folks an apology as they showed up on Wednesday night expecting to go to a debate that turned out to be in a TV

I realize there has been a lot of shuffling of the dates/times this weekend, but I’m sure trying to arrange numerous debates, programs, etc., is difficult. Even today I found out I was supposed to speak at a Conference this evening—but no one bothered to inform me of that. In any case,

OK, I know I have made sure this 2001 picture is no longer on our website, so how does it keep cropping up? Ack! Oh well, here’s an interesting advertisement for the upcoming ABN programs: