Judge lifts order banning minister from mosque
Published: Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:42 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:42 a.m.
DEARBORN, Mich. – A Michigan judge has overturned a lower court's three-year ban on visits to a suburban Detroit mosque by a Florida minister whose rhetoric against Muslims has inflamed anti-Western sentiment in Afghanistan.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Robert Ziolkowski on Thursday reversed a Dearborn judge's April order that the Rev. Terry Jones and supporter Wayne Sapp stay away from the Islamic Center of America.
A burning of the Quran in March at Jones' church in Gainesville, Fla., led to violent protests in Afghanistan that killed more than a dozen people.
Michigan prosecutors sought the order after Jones announced plans to demonstrate outside the mosque.
Dearborn is home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the nation. About a third of its 90,000 residents have roots in the Middle East
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