The only known, living terrorist connected to the May 2015 attack at the Muhammad Art contest in Texas, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Prosecutors had been asking for a life sentence. Kareem, whose given name is Decarus Thomas, is a former Baptist who converted to Islam.
The only known, living terrorist connected to the May 2015 attack at the Muhammad Art contest in Texas, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, will face sentencing on October 25. Prosecutors are asking for a life sentence. Kareem, whose given name is Decarus Thomas, is a former Baptist who converted to Islam.
Prosecutors in Phoenix asked jurors during closing arguments on Friday to convict the defendant who is accused of planning terrorist attacks at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas, last May.
On May 5 CNN reported that the two gunmen who attacked Garland’s Curtis Culwell Center acquired their guns “legally.”
Rather than see the attack as another of example of Islam’s war against the West, the Times suggested the lessons to be drawn from it are in learning the difference between free speech and “hate speech.”
When Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi opened fire outside the Muhammad cartoon event Sunday night in Garland, Texas, they were killed by a traffic cop working after-hours security for the event to pick up extra money.
On May 3 Breitbart News reported that two gunmen approached the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, and began firing. Their attack was cut down by good guys with guns who were there to stop bad guys.
The inaugural Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest hosted by Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is sold out and ready for Sunday evening’s festivities. The event is bringing art from across the world expressing free speech which is under attack from radical Islamic groups like those who attacked Charlie Hebdo in January. The exhibit will be held on Sunday, May 3, at the Curtis Culwell Center, 5-7 pm, in the Dallas suburb of Garland, Texas.
Lieutenant Colonel Allen West (USA-Ret) picked up on the Breitbart Texas report, via his website, announcing the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest being put on by free-speech activist Pamela Geller. West is a former Congressman from Florida who soon will be living in the Dallas area.
