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GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Two armed men who opened fire on a security officer outside of a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have been killed, authorities in the Dallas suburb of Garland said Sunday night. The City of Garland said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Sunday night that two men drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center and began shooting at a security officer. Garland Police Department officers engaged the gunmen, who were both shot and killed, the statement said. The statement did not say whether the shooting was related to the event. The security officer’s injuries were not life-threatening, the city said. The gunmen’s vehicle may contain an “incendiary device,” according to the statement. A bomb squad was on the scene, and nearby businesses were evacuated. The New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative had been hosting a contest at the center that would award $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Such drawings are deemed insulting to many followers of Islam and have sparked violence around the world. According to mainstream Islamic tradition, any physical depiction of the Prophet Muhammad – even a respectful one – is considered blasphemous. Earlier Sunday, about 75 attendees at the contest were escorted by authorities to another room in the conference center before they were taken to a school bus. Authorities said they would be taken to another location. Johnny Roby of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was attending the conference. He told The Associated Press he was outside the building when he heard around about 20 shots that appeared to be coming from the direction of a passing car. Roby said he then heard two single shots. He said he heard officers yell that they had the car before he was sent inside the building. Pamela Geller, president of the AFDI, told the AP before Sunday’s event that she planned the contest to make a stand for free speech in response to outcries and violence over drawings of Muhammad. Though it remained unclear several hours after the shooting whether it was related to event, she said Sunday night that the shooting showed how “needed our event really was.” In January, 12 people were killed by gunmen in an attack against the Paris office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had lampooned Islam and other religions and used depictions of Muhammad. Geller’s group is known for mounting a campaign against the building of an Islamic center blocks from the World Trade Center site and for buying advertising space in cities across the U.S. criticizing Islam.

The jerks sponsoring such an event should have been the ones shot.

I'll make the popcorn...

Yeah! To hell with freedom of speech!

Baiting works with all kinds of animals.

Really?

How very sad

The group who sponsored this is based out of New York. Why not do it up there? Maybe they were looking for the best and brightest artists there.

85's UBB buddies are eyeball and The Real Hawkeye. That tells you all you need to know.

As far as having this in NY I'm ok with that.

Maybe they just felt safer in small town Texas

They were

God Bless Texas

When one feels they must drive in and kill as an answer to their issue we have a problem

They really need to go somewhere where the law agrees with them

not here

I bet Obama is blowing snot all over his prayer rug this morning.

He'll have to swap out his diaper for his turban a day earlier

I'm sure he's blowing something. To answer your question, yes it's baiting and I'm good with that.

This, in spades, even though spades are black...

If they are that stupid, they need to be eliminated from the gene pool.

Anyone that sympathizes with them is as bad as they are IMHO.

We do have a problem, And baiting and provoking a confrontation hiding under the free speech blanket doesn't help things any. A security guard was close to losing his life that day, and for what? so some a$$holes can bash someones religion.

More like "calling varmints"...

I know there's a coyote in that thicket somewhere... Let's see if we can call it out and shoot it...

True.

And we can stop bashing other peoples politics while were at it.

...and don't call them thugs.

Good way for those radicals to go. They could have blown themselves up along with a bunch of innocent people in a shopping mall. Hasbeen

Oddly enough we all have an opinion

The thing we normally take for granted is we can express it

I have heard bad things about the Pope and never even hit anyone

I was in Houston when the showed a crucifix in a jar of urine and did not shoot anyone

now we are told it is to be expected to have violence if we view a cartoon

I'm thinken not

Was it in bad taste... most likely

Should a person been shot over it

No

So what do we do

All live in fear of what we do and say

accept any ultimatum produced by anyone?

It is up to you

Snake

The problem is the bad guys will want to retaliate. There are elementary schools all across America that are now targets for these animals.

They fail to realize that freedom of speech is truly an American original concept that is the envy of the rest of the world.

This is what happens when we have a loose immigration policy. And, the republicans are just as guilty of that as are the democrats. With 50,000,000 illegals coming across the border in the last 10 years if 1/10 of 1% are hardcore muslims, that means 5000 hardcore muslims are in or very close to America.

Does that give you a warm and fuzzy feeling??

kwg