According to the Family Research Council, the Dearborn Arab International Festival is expected to draw 300,000 people. FRC reports:
Dearborn's Muslim
population, which is about 30 percent of the city, wields strong
political 
influence. So strong, in fact, that the city's ordinances
were modified in
2004 to allow the Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast across the city
five times a day.
Yesterday morning, two Christians were detained and questioned by police for over four hours. Their crime? Distributing Bibles on a public sidewalk. Organizers of the festival had adopted a policy that restricted the Arabic Christian Perspective (ACP) from disseminating religious materials or sharing their faith on the public sidewalks around the event. Although the Christians were later released, city officials told ACP that their activities would have to be limited to a booth at the festival.
Yesterday morning, two Christians were detained and questioned by police for over four hours. Their crime? Distributing Bibles on a public sidewalk. Organizers of the festival had adopted a policy that restricted the Arabic Christian Perspective (ACP) from disseminating religious materials or sharing their faith on the public sidewalks around the event. Although the Christians were later released, city officials told ACP that their activities would have to be limited to a booth at the festival.
One News Now has details about the Arab Festival and the denial to the Christian group. Literature distribution would be limited to a designated table-and-booth section of the festival site.