Pastor Terry Jones Will Attend Arab International Festival

Terry Jones is coming back to Dearborn.

The Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday that the Quran-burning Florida pastor who has stirred things up in Dearborn over the past month will return during the city's Arab International Festival on June 17.

Jones in Dearborn for failure to pay a $1 peace bond after a jury at the found that he and his associate Wayne Sapp were "likely to breach the peace" by holding a protest at the , despite being denied a permit to do so.

The following week, Jones of the ruling and a lawsuit against the city and Wayne County for violating his First Amendment right to free speech. He capped off the week with an to Dearborn's , where he held a demonstration that turned out hundreds of counter-protesters.

Jones' organization, Stand Up America Now, has created a Facebook event page for their June 17 visit to the Arab International Festival. The information on the event says, "We are coming to Dearborn because we have received an overwhelmingly positive response from the Dearborn community."

The event had 30 confirmed guests as of Wednesday afternoon, with over a thousand still to reply.

The Arab International Festival has been a site for anti-Islamic controversy in the past.

Last June, four Christian missionaries were arrested for disturbing the peace at the festival.

According to the city of Dearborn, four members of the Acts 17 Apologetics were speaking to a large crowd at the festival and allegedly were agitating and harassing festival goers. When police ordered them to disperse, the situation escalated and they were arrested for breaching the peace and not following officers' orders.

Like Jones, the arrestees have filed a lawsuit in the matter–in their case, against the city and members of Arab American Chamber of Commerce.

Both Jones' appeal and the Act 17 members' lawsuit are being handled by the Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor.