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Two gunmen have been killed and a security guard injured during what appeared to be an attack on a contest for cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad in a Dallas suburb.
The gunmen drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland shortly before 7pm on Sunday where the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) were hosting the exhibition and contest.
According to city authorities an unarmed guard at the event was shot at before the men were engaged and killed by police.
Further...
A bomb squad was called in after reports of a possible incendiary device at the scene of the incident. Police said a "bomb container trailer" had also been deployed in which to place any suspect device.
A police spokesman said two males had been killed and their bodies were still lying outside their car hours later.
"Because of the situation of what was going on today and the history of what we've been told has happened at other events like this, we are considering their car (is) possibly containing a bomb," Officer Joe Harn, a spokesman for the Garland Police Department, said.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @07:11AM
There is this thing called "google", you might use it instead of displaying ignorance. That's what I would do!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @07:27AM
There is this thing called "hyperlinks" [wikipedia.org], you might use it instead of displaying laziness. That's what I would do!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @07:43AM
is this thing called "hyperlinks", you might use it instead of displaying laziness
Dude, you just hyperlinked to the wikipedia entry on hyperlinks. Are you trying to destroy the world as we know it, like Pam Geller and her fascist followers? The world will end from the failure to comprehend the exponential function, or recursive linking, and Pam Geller and her hate-mongering friends.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 04 2015, @04:54PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 04 2015, @07:28AM
The statement above is, "Hadn't heard of her." The question is "Are you a fan?" You failed to answer the question, instead focusing on the statement, and irrationally concluding that AC had not googled for Pam.
As a matter of fact, I have heard of Pam, and I am a fan of hers. The woman cuts through all the stupid bullshit, and gets to the point. Islam is incompatible with any democratic society, incompatible with western civilization, incompatible with any society which values freedom.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @07:31AM
Freedom to be jailed for life if you marry or try to marry a young girl child.
Freedom is only the freedoms women want in America.
(All old religions allow child marriage of girls, if "freedom of religion" ment anything...)
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday May 04 2015, @07:53AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @07:59AM
Who's that?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday May 04 2015, @08:27AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @08:39AM
Nah, it really is MikeeUSA, he always posts when the FA is about Texas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @03:16PM
We all look the same to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @03:26PM
If you believe in your sick belief enough why don't you say it with your real name and address.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @07:41AM
So you could come arrest or kill me?
No thanks shill.
Hope you die before your time.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Monday May 04 2015, @07:36AM
To be fair, so is a literal interpretation of the judeochristian bible. Sadly, even in America, there are those who are still shackled to the ancient text. I will grant that it appears that Muslims in the middle east appear even more so shackled, but my belief that that is so may just be the result of western propaganda. Anyway, what would have been better than a Muhammed cartoon day, would have been a day to make porn of Jesus and Muhammed fucking and sucking each other off.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @11:36AM
> To be fair, so is a literal interpretation of the judeochristian bible.
No it is not.
What you meant to say is a selective reading of the judeochristian bible.
Same for the quran.
Anyone who reads the entirety of those books would never come away with such an understanding. It takes deliberate ignorance of most of each book to come to those sorts of extremist conclusions.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @01:16PM
Anyone who ready the entirety of those books and tries to take everything literally will quite soon be tripped up by contradictions.
This already starts in the first two chapters. The first chapter claims the animals were created earlier than the humans. The second chapter claims the humans (well, one of them) were created first.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @01:34PM
The first prototype is always thrown out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @04:41PM
Yeah, the prototype was thrown out — of paradise. However being God's pet project, he could not bring himself to terminate it. but instead he released it into the wild. Since he had programmed it to be self-replicating, it soon started to multiply and misbehave, and God had to use drastic measures to kill it off. But again, he couldn't bring himself to finally delete all instances, so it multiplied again and got us to the fucked-up world of today.
Meanwhile God has left this world in order to create a better one. We don't know if he succeeded.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @07:36PM
ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
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ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 04 2015, @04:58PM
Anyone who reads the entirety of those books would never come away with such an understanding.
And anyone who has moved stars across the galaxy and completely understood the meaning of fpg54yu4oy5u in its eternal struggle with glglglglgl would never agree with that statement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @05:05PM
I'm sorry, I don't get your point.
All religious texts are written by men, not aliens. Nothing in them is particularly complicated or beyond the understanding of other men.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by khallow on Monday May 04 2015, @11:20PM
All religious texts are written by men, not aliens.
Only someone who has actually met a large enough sample of sapient aliens can legitimately make that claim.
Nothing in them is particularly complicated or beyond the understanding of other men.
Only a human who actually has read all religious texts ever and understood them can make that claim.
(Score: 1) by dime on Monday May 04 2015, @08:50PM
It doesn't take deliberate ignorance, just unmovable faith..
All that's required is faith to come to extremist conclusions when reading the instructions given to you by your infallible god..
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @09:11PM
> It doesn't take deliberate ignorance, just unmovable faith..
Those are synonyms.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday May 04 2015, @03:12PM
I presume it has been done already but the closest I could find was Jesus fellated on a cross by Mohammed [zombietime.com] via a larger archive [blogspot.co.uk]. In my search, special merit goes to TubMohammed [paheal.net] and a disturbing picture involving a pig [imgur.com] in sailor fuku [wikipedia.org].
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @04:50PM
Not to put too fine a point on this, but if you had put together such an event I am pretty sure that most, if not all, of the Christians of this country would not react violently; with disgust, yes, but not with violence. On the other hand, I am pretty sure that a fairly large fraction of the the Muslims of this country would try to excuse the inevitable violence by saying that such an event was blasphemous and provocative. Do you really not see the difference here?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @05:11PM
> I am pretty sure that
> On the other hand, I am pretty sure that
>
> Do you really not see the difference here?
The difference between two things you are pretty sure of?
No, they both seem to be stories you made up to justify your prejudice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @05:40PM
OK, maybe we should have a little experiment. Let us have two public events. At one of these events we will have a draw Mohammed contest. At the other event, we will have a draw Jesus event. Care to place any bets on which one will need the enhanced security detail? Is my ability to predict the outcome prejudice or prescience?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @05:43PM
> Care to place any bets on which one will need the enhanced security detail?
> Is my ability to predict the outcome prejudice or prescience?
How do you define "need?" [vox.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 04 2015, @11:43PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @11:53PM
> I suppose we also need to consider the visibility of the respective events
Only someone who has actually met a large enough sample of sapient aliens can legitimately make that consideration.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:07AM
Only someone who has actually met a large enough sample of sapient aliens can legitimately make that consideration.
Fortunately, I've met humans so I have met a large enough sample of sapient aliens. So you are new to the idea of debate?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:13AM
> So you are new to the idea of debate?
I am old to the idea of someone posting random nonsensical bullshit and thinking themselves insightful for it.
Stroke yourself somewhere else.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:48AM
I am old to the idea of someone posting random nonsensical bullshit and thinking themselves insightful for it.
Let's look at the rhetorical fallacy that kicked this off:
Anyone who reads the entirety of those books would never come away with such an understanding.
It's a combination of the No True Scotsman and argument from authority fallacies. Only people who have read every single page in the highly subjective approved way can be considered to have the authority to have "understanding" and of course, that "understanding" exactly mirrors some irrelevant AC's opinion. I note also the AC poster emphasized (with italics) "selective reading". That's another setup for the No True Scotsman fallacy since clearly any disagree with the poster is now due to selective reading rather than the fact that the Bible actually contains verses, sometimes quite extensive to support the claim that the Bible is not entirely pro-freedom (such as endless Old Testament bragging about laying low the foes of God and the terrible things that come to them).
(Score: 4, Funny) by M. Baranczak on Monday May 04 2015, @05:02PM
Moslem fanatics are like ebola. They don't just kill you, they kill you in the most spectacularly gruesome way possible.
Christian fanatics are like herpes. They don't kill you, they just ruin your sex life.
And if you go to Texas, then your chance of catching ebola, while not zero, is still a lot lower than catching herpes, so protect yourself accordingly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @11:06PM
I see someone hasn't read the Song of Solomon [biblegateway.com]...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @07:49AM
Earlier you claimed, Runaway, that people didn't really know you. But you are not helping yourself here. Provocation to draw people in so you can have security kill them is a bit beyond free speech. Let's see them do the "draw Mohammed" think without the armed guards next time, and not in Texas. Cause you know, Texas is a well know supporter of sharia law, only the Perry version.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 04 2015, @08:24AM
How can you fail so badly? Read Hemomyacin's post. Mohammed and Jesus sucking each other off. Your post seems to support the idea that I should hunt the man down, and kill him for insulting Jesus.
Hemomyacin - when is the last time a Christian stalked you for having made an irreverant post about Jesus? How many times have you narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, because of your irreverance for all things Christian?
AC is a hopeless idiot.
Every single Muslim in the US - as well as outside the US - who takes offense at this Muhammed cartoon thing can just drop dead. And, I'll be happy to assist in the dropping.
The Christian God doesn't demand blind, idiotic, mindless obedience, like Islam's Allah does. Or, to be more accurate, the Christian God doesn't require the blind idiotic mindless obedience that many Muslim imams demand.
"Here, boy, strap this vest on, and walk over toward those infidels. Tonight, you'll sleep with 70 virgins, Allahu ackbar!"
"Only senventy virgins, imam?"
"Well, yes, of course only 70 virgins. I'm your commander, so you'll reserve the others for me!"
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @08:44AM
Obviously Runaway is not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy! And not much of a Christian. If I had to guess, and I don't but I will just for the sake of keeping the hatemongering red-hot, Lutheran? Missouri Synod? Unreformed? The Christian God and the Muslim God (and the Jewish one, but let's keep him out of this) are the SAME God, if obedience is required in one of these religions, and not in the others, somebody is getting something wrong. Or, there is no god, and Runaway is his accuser.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 04 2015, @09:33AM
Sorry, but you have it wrong. Only at a glance is Islam related to Christianity and Judaism. When you begin to examine Islam more closely, you will realize that Islam is a death worshipping cult. Christianity and Judaism worship life.
(Score: 0, Troll) by FatPhil on Monday May 04 2015, @10:16AM
Though Zionistic interpreters of their scriptures seem to more worship the regular termination of it, for Palestinians.
Having said that, the religious christain right in the US has spread its love of live via the mechanisms of creating phoney wars and bombing people back to the stone age on the international scale, and by fire-bombing abortion clinics on the local scale.
The three are from the same production line. Version 3 just hasn't got round to fixing the bugs that plagued the previous 2 versions for many centuries.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @11:58AM
> When you begin to examine Islam more closely, you will realize that Islam is a death worshipping cult. Christianity and Judaism worship life.
We can trace the accusation "death worshipping cult" back to Ayaan Hirsi Ali who said islam is a "destructive, nihilistic cult of death." [alternet.org] However, when pressed on the issue by Jon Stewart [cc.com] she admitted that what he means is that just like every other religion with an afterlife it is concerned with living a good life so that they will end up in their equivalent of heaven rather than their equivalent of hell.
So, phrasing. And not in the clever, kinky Archeresque way. [youtube.com]
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @09:21AM
Due to increased number of Muslims martyring themselves, virgins are in short supply. Please note that, in future, the number of virgins shall be reduced to meet the increased demand. Please adjust your expectations accordingly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @12:33PM
Please note that, in future, the number of virgins shall be reduced to meet the increased demand. Please adjust your expectations accordingly.
Unbelievable as it sounds, Uwe Boll had the best take on this problem.
My wife is from a muslim family and she about pissed herself laughing at this:
What if there are only ten virgins? And we have to split them between us? [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @04:54PM
In that case you're not the slightest bit better than those radical Muslims. It's just that the offense you're willing to kill for is different.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @11:42AM
I have heard of Pam, and I am a fan of hers. The woman cuts through all the stupid bullshit, and gets to the point. Islam is incompatible with any democratic society, incompatible with western civilization, incompatible with any society which values freedom.
In other words, she tells you exactly what you want to hear. No surprise that makes you a fan.
The same tactic is deployed by millions of smooth talking men to get women into bed too.