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posted by takyon on Monday May 04 2015, @06:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the ineffectual-terrorism dept.

The Guardian is reporting that...

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.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @01:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @01:46PM (#178486)

    The enemy isn't a specific religion, but a minority who have twisted the teachings of that religion

    Again and again. It is not a minority. Even in western countries the majority of Muslims support Sharia including the nasty stuff like beheading infidels and stoning rape victims to death. We are just lucky that they are a minority. In every country where Islam has become the majority, these things happen more, not less.

    Until we can accept an individual's right to choose any religion whatsoever then we are no better than those that you seem to be accusing of being the cause of the problems.

    We do. They don't. The problem is not their religion, but their actions in service to their religion.

    And I am sick of this one sided nonsense. If you want citations from me, you will have to back up your claims first. No more of this null hypothesis being peace. The null hypothesis is right there in the news story.

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