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‘Draw Muhammad and Die’: 10 Years Since Islamic Jihad Hit Garland, Texas — And the West Still Hasn’t Learned (Exclusive Survivor Interview)
RAIR Foundation USA ^ | May 2, 2025 | Amy Mek

Posted on 05/03/2025 12:18:36 AM PDT by deks

Ten years ago, in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, Islamic terrorists opened fire on a free speech event because Americans dared to draw Muhammad. That moment — May 3, 2015 — should have been a turning point in the West’s battle against Islamic supremacy. Instead, it was quickly buried by media silence, political cowardice, and a deepening national amnesia of Islamic terror in America.

Just four months earlier, in January 2015, the staff of Charlie Hebdo in Paris were massacred by Islamic terrorists for publishing cartoons of Muhammad. Incredibly, within weeks of that slaughter, an Islamic group held a “Stand with the Prophet” event at the very same venue in Garland, Texas, calling for restrictions on free speech critical of Islam.

In response, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer resolved to host a counter-event in the exact location — one that celebrated, rather than surrendered, the First Amendment.

That moment — May 3, 2015 — should have been a turning point in the West’s battle against Islamic supremacy. Instead, it was quickly buried by media silence, political cowardice, and a deepening national amnesia.

While the bullets in Garland failed to kill the First Amendment, the real threat never left. Today, that threat has evolved. It no longer arrives with assault rifles, but with land purchases, real estate development, city charters, and Sharia-based political influence.

What jihad failed to accomplish with blood is now being pursued through bureaucracy. And Texas is ground zero.

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TOPICS: US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; epic; garland; islamicjihad; islamization; moslem; pedophileprophet; terrorism; texas
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Today, that threat has evolved. It no longer arrives with assault rifles, but with land purchases, real estate development, city charters, and Sharia-based political influence. What jihad failed to accomplish with blood is now being pursued through bureaucracy. And Texas is ground zero.
1 posted on 05/03/2025 12:18:36 AM PDT by deks
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To: deks

The FBI followed the terrorists, all the way from Arizona, and NEVER notified the police guarding the event.
An alert Texas cop outshot the two heavily armed terrorists and THEN the FBI emerged from the car behind them.

Then they left.

Scumbags were going to let it happen.


2 posted on 05/03/2025 12:24:18 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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Texas has seen a growing Muslim population, particularly in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Estimates from 2017 pegged the Muslim population in the United States at 3.45 million, 1.1% of the total population, with Texas hosting the largest share of around 422,000.

This growth is driven by immigration, higher birth rates, and conversions, with projections suggesting Muslims could become the second-largest religious group in the U.S. by 2050.


3 posted on 05/03/2025 12:24:42 AM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: deks

The Bush mentality infested Texas GOP government has rolled out the welcome mat for Islam. They actively court them.


4 posted on 05/03/2025 12:26:51 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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The EPIC City controversy has amplified broader tensions. Governor Abbott’s rhetoric, echoed by figures like Laura Loomer and Charlie Kirk on X, frames these developments as a threat to Texas’s identity, with some alleging ties to radical groups or foreign influence.

For instance, posts on X have linked Senator John Cornyn to Islamic Relief USA, a charity some claim funds EPIC City, though these connections are unverified.


5 posted on 05/03/2025 12:27:06 AM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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Islam is a war plan


6 posted on 05/03/2025 1:24:44 AM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: deks

Is garland going to become the next Gaza?


7 posted on 05/03/2025 2:15:25 AM PDT by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: deks

That’s one of the primary reasons why I think the conspiracy “the Jews!” Being behind all the evils happening in the west is bogus.

As a religion Islamic nations hold a fairly universal hatred of Israel. Many, many people in those countries want to literally genocide Jews (just go to X and spend a quick minute looking at the posts of the Pals and other Muslims on Oct 7 and the war etc).

So then why is it we see some of the most Jewish empowered nations in the West have the most open immigration police’s to Islamists? US as one example, UK another.

None of the Jew haters can ever coherently answer that question.


8 posted on 05/03/2025 2:52:56 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: deks

It is not that they haven’t learned, it is they are too cowardly to confront.


9 posted on 05/03/2025 2:56:10 AM PDT by odawg
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To: deks

And they had the pic wrong - it should have looked more like
💩


10 posted on 05/03/2025 4:39:47 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: DesertRhino; All

Here is an article detailing what happened during the attack:

https://www.ammoland.com/2021/03/how-a-texas-gunfighter-cop-stopped-the-isis-attack-in-garland-texas/

From the article:

“Gregory Stevens draws his Glock 21 .45 from his retention holster. Elton Simpson brings up the AK clone. The shots exchanged are so close as to be simultaneous. Greg cannot determine who shot first. All three combatants are wearing soft body armor.

Simpson misses. One of the 230 grain Gold Dot hollow points Greg is launching from the Glock, probably the first, smashes Simpson’s femur. More rounds follow as Simpson falls. He goes down, dropping the rifle.

The driver, Nadir Soofi, is firing at Greg with a semi-automatic rifle. The rifle is equipped with a 100 round magazine. The rifle was either a detachable magazine-fed SKS or an AK clone. (The terrorists had three rifles with them) Greg shifts his aim to Soofi. He fires several rounds from his Glock. Soofi goes down, dropping the rifle.”

There is also information about the FBI involvement and coverup in the article.


11 posted on 05/03/2025 4:41:14 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: deks

BTTT


12 posted on 05/03/2025 4:45:54 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: DesertRhino

Bush’s like money.


13 posted on 05/03/2025 5:07:00 AM PDT by chopperk (airhiger)
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To: deks

Cornyn likes money.


14 posted on 05/03/2025 5:07:45 AM PDT by chopperk (airhiger)
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To: deks

It doesn’t help that there is a frieze of Mohammed in the SCOTUS.

http://religiousreader.org/a-sculpture-of-muhammad-has-sat-in-the-u-s-supreme-court-since-the-1930s/


15 posted on 05/03/2025 5:25:56 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: deks

It wasn’t an Islamic terrorist operation, it was an FBI operation. And the event security was lucky that the federal escort didn’t open fire on them.


16 posted on 05/03/2025 5:44:39 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Ikeon
Is garland going to become the next Gaza?

No, the identified location of "New Gaza" (Epic City) is about 25 miles northeast of downtown Garland.

17 posted on 05/03/2025 5:50:35 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: deks

Muslims’ religion commands them to conquer the world and form a worldwide Caliphate under Sharia Law. They never migrate to assimilate but they invade to conquer.


18 posted on 05/03/2025 6:07:46 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: PAR35
You must be one of those posters that have very little abstract thinking abd dont get sarcasm or youre a Karen that has to correct every tiny off detail.

I was replying to the artical about the Islamic center near garland.

This ain't the space shuttle, no one's gonna get killed if I'm off a few miles. It's a shotgun post, not a sniper shot

19 posted on 05/03/2025 6:57:48 AM PDT by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: deks

After 1400 years of constant war with Islam, the West not only has not learned, but most still think its a religion, a religion of peace. Fools.


20 posted on 05/03/2025 7:16:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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