From Fox News: The brother of a Phoenix man killed in a Texas shootout with police has testified that a defendant in a terror trial was an Islamic State supporter. KNXV-TV reports that Ali Soofi testified Wednesday in federal court in Phoenix in the trial of Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem.
Before turning onto local police, terror suspect Usaama Rahim wanted to target the “Draw Mohammed” cartoon event organizer Pamela Geller and behead her.
As Fox News reported: “Washington D.C. transit officials voted Thursday to suspend all issue-oriented advertising on the city’s rail and bus system after the agency was asked to consider an ad featuring an image of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.” “The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) board of directors voted to suspend all issue ads […]
The FBI warned local Texas police in Garland, Texas that gunmen had interest in the Mohammed cartoon event being held there at about three hours before the attempted shooting.
After the attempted terrorist attack in Garland, Texas at a Mohammed cartoon event, Fox News personalities went on-air and gave conditions to free speech.
As the Washington Free Beacon said: “Two law enforcement officials who asked not to be named identified one of the dead shooters as Elton Simpson, under surveillance since 2006 and convicted in 2010 of lying to FBI agents over his desire to join violent jihad in Somalia. The second shooter was identified as Nadir Soofi, […]
Always comes with a condition, Obama’s rhetoric. His press secretary, Josh Earnest, said, “There is no act of expression, even if it’s offensive, that justifies an act of violence.” To some, it sounds as if Obama is toeing the line and called the Mohammed cartoon event ‘offensive.’ Where was Obama when Christians are being beheaded […]
Even if holding a satirical cartoon event about Islam’s prophet Mohammed may not have been the smartest thing to do post-Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks, it still is an expression of free speech. As the Washington Examiner editorial board noted, if we start suppressing free speech in the name of ‘it’s-too-offensive,’ then where do we stop?
As Fox News reported: “The Islamic State terror group (ISIS) Tuesday issued a claim of responsibility for Sunday’s attack on a Texas cartoon contest featuring images of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.” “The claim was made in an audio message on the group’s Al Bayan radio station, based in the Syria city of Raqqa, which ISIS […]