Posted on 05/04/2015 9:57:31 AM PDT by Salman
GARLAND, Tex. — One of the two gunmen who were killed Sunday after opening fire at an event where people were invited to present cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was identified on Monday by a law enforcement official as a man who had previously been labeled by the F.B.I. as a jihadist terrorism suspect.
Police officers shot and killed the man, identified as Elton Simpson of Phoenix, and his companion Sunday evening, outside the Curtis Culwell Center, at an event organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a New York-based group that also uses the name Stop Islamization of America. The gunfire, which began shortly before 7 p.m., left a security guard wounded.
In 2010, federal prosecutors in Arizona charged Mr. Simpson with plotting to travel to Somalia “for the purpose of engaging in violent jihad,” and then lying to a federal agent about his plans. A judge found him guilty of lying to the agent, but said the government had not proved that his plan involved terrorism, and sentenced him to three years’ probation.
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islam is the religion of something...
evil.
two down, hundreds of thousands to go. what a cool officer with a pistol to kill this garbage. YES your religion is based on worshipping a moon god and your founder is a child rapist pos!!!
Uuuuuummmmmmm, obamalamadingdong isn’t going to like this “a jihadist terrorism suspect.”
Work place violence people, get the jargon correct or be subject to dear leaders “re-education.”
LMAO.
No bias in that headline
Lol
how did they lose the gun battle with assault weapons against a pistol!! lol.
Dirty Harry was there!!!
Wonder what’s taking so long to identify the second shooter?
they want WAR....Ive got their WAR right here!!
Offending psychotic devotees of Big Mo has just become MY MISSION
NY Slimes has called the event “anti-Islam” in their headline, thus rationalizing the terrorists’ response. I hate to say it, but I am so furious that I wouldn’t lose much sleep if some nut went in THEIR offices and opened fire for the tons of ink they spilled against Christianity, so that some newspaper would put in THEIR headline: nutcase opens fire in the offices of the Anti-Christian NY Times!
Of course this will never happen, nor would I want it to happen as us Christians do not condone murder, even when we get attacked, or get “offended”.
Attack at Texas “Anti-Islam Event”.
This was not an anti-Islam event. It was a “Free-Speech Event”.
So would Christianity across the globe be considered Anti-Islam by the NYTimes?
Perhaps there is some justification for the brutal murders of thousands of Christians....because they are Anti-Islamic?
Wow! Just plain damn Wow!
How so?
I knew from that headline that it must be a scum-bag, laying, POS newspaper like the NYT!!
His name.....was Mohammed Ackbar Mohammad Mohammed
Obie stepped in and demanded his identity not be released
Effing Liberals.
In January 17,2015, and the same public school center, there was a “Stand with the Prophet” rally by Muslims, a pro-Shariah law event, by supporters Al-Qaida and Isis organized by one of the terrorists implicate in the bombing of the garage of the NY World Trade Center in 2003. I wonder if those who try to blame the organizers of the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest,” for the Muslim terrorist attack would have justified if some patriotic American had irrupted in Muslim rally on January 2015 and made a massacre of Islamic terrorists.
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