The men are here from Rochester, New York and expected to
leave metro-Detroit on Thursday. They plan on demonstrating in the city of
Detroit tomorrow, and say this is their second year visiting Dearborn. 

  

Domenic Danesi, the man holding the wooden cross told The
Arab American News he’s not against Muslims or any faith, and is simply trying
to spread the teachings of the Christian prophet Jesus Christ. “We’ll go where
ever we believe the Holy Spirit is leading us to go, and today it’s Warren
Avenue,” Danesi said. 

He says the men have gone to other communities in the
country with

large concentrations of people who aren’t Christian, trying
to convey the same messages.  Danesi recalled once disputing with a Mormon, and Jehovah
Witnesses. 

He actually condemned the misconceptions surrounding Muslim
Americans in Dearborn.

 

“I know there’s been a lot of misrepresentation here. Often
what I’ve said is if you go to a hornets nest and shake it up you’re going to
get stung, and we are not coming as provokers, we’re coming as proclaimers not
protestors. There’s a big difference,” he said. “We don’t need to preach against
Allah,” he said.   

Danesi was wearing a shirt that read: JESUS
IS THE TRUTH.  It appeared the men
believe the only truthful religious teachings are those of Jesus Christ.

 

When asked what group the men belonged to, Danesi claimed
they’re not affiliated with any group and just “ambassadors of Christ.”

 

“We’re ambassadors because we come from different churches,
but we all believe in one church and in Jesus Christ,” he said. 

While some
people stopped to praise the group, and show support by signing the wooden
cross, others reacted negatively.

 

One Arab American male riding his bike said the men are
probably being paid. “Where do you work? I find it hard to believe that there’s
grown men standing outside here with nothing better to do,” Dearborn resident
Hicham Bazzi shouted at Danesi. 
Responding Danesi said, he was “working for God.”

 

  

Bazzi says when he went to talk to the other men, who
offered him Christian literature they told him they couldn’t address his
questions and would have to speak with Danesi.

 

Bazzi says other Arab Americans should not provoke the men,
and ignore them.  

Danesi looked fairly young, while some of the other men appeared to
be in their forties and fifties. The names of some of the other Christian
missionaries are Scott Ciman, Rick Juszkiwickz, Steve Spezzano.  Danesi says some people have shouted obscenities
at him. Several Arab Americans passed by the missionaries, and ignored them as they attempted to give them literature.