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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by curunir_wolf on Monday May 04 2015, @02:29PM
crusaders who happily slaughtered thousands in the name of Christianity
Actually, the Crusades were a reaction to the preceding violent expansion of Islam [islam-watch.org].
I am a crackpot
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @02:38PM
> Actually, the Crusades were a reaction to the preceding violent expansion of Islam.
If you think anything that happens on such a massive scale is the reaction to a single thing, then you haven't been paying attention to world you live in.
That's like saying the invasion of Iraq was a reaction to 9/11.
Yes it was. But it would never have happened were it not for the trillions of dollars that defense contractors stood to make, among other reasons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @07:42PM
To be fair, with that attitude, soylent would never have the disk space to handle just one discussion about any geopolitical move.
The causational chain is as long and as broad as all of the universe. All we can do is choose a context to limit the scope and at this point we are no longer arguing about a single event but how broad we want to go in interpreting cause. While interesting it is also not an effective way to understand anything at a human level.
(Score: 2, Touché) by janrinok on Monday May 04 2015, @05:04PM