The Islamist Attack in Garland

Though details from the investigation are still coming out, I have absolutely no doubt that Sunday’s attack in Garland, during the “Muhammad Art” contest was a full-fledged planned and prepared Islamist Jihadist terrorism attack against Americans citizens who, having obtained all the necessary permits from the authorities and in full coordination with the police and federal agencies, were legally exercising their Constitutional rights of Free Speech on US soil.

  

I emphasize that because this specific event, a very public demonstration of First Amendment rights (even if they anger or offend others in our society), was held to counterbalance an earlier event that took place in January at the exact same venue.

On January 17, speakers at the “Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect” conference in Garland declared that they are trying to start a “movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message.” 

 This theme was very similar to the motive of the Charlie Hebdo jihadist killers: after they had murdered twelve people, one of the gunmen shouted, “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad.”

The January anti-free speech conference claimed that “Islamophobia” should be punished as a hate crime, and press articles opposing Jihad should be stifled. Speaker after speaker called for legally restricting any negative commentary on Islam, its practices, wars, values or prophets.

  

Siraj Wahhaj, who is the US born charismatic imam of the extremist Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, the leader of The Muslim Alliance in North America...and an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the keynote speaker. Wahhaj, an American citizen, has said, amongst other anti-American utterances: “If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.”

Despite the fact that statements like this are abominations to most Americans, no one shot at the police and security guards that Saturday, no one tried to blow anything up and no one declared a desire to become a “Shaheed”, a martyr.

  

On the contrary, the human rights advocacy group the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) the same organization organized yesterday’s event in Garland, held a peaceful demonstration outside that conference on “Islamophobia”.

 

And Sunday two Islamist terrorists drove up in a van with assault rifles and ammunition, shot and wounded a uniformed guard and to everyone’s good fortune were immediately killed by a police officer.

How do we know that they were Islamist terrorists?

1.   ISIS claimed responsibility and that “this was just the beginning”.
2. The two terrorists, Elton Francis Simpson, and Nadir Soofi, were friends and had well known Islamist sympathies. Simpson already had an FBI terrorist file.
3. Simpson had told an FBI informant that he wanted to travel to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab, expressing a desire to get all the “rewards” of being a martyr since he’s going to die sometimes, anyway.
4.  And most incriminatory – Simpson’s twitter account “ Shariah is Light”, posted this just hours before the attack in Garland.

  “Baya”= Absolute allegiance.

“Amirul Mu’mineen = The Commander of the Faithful (currently – Head of ISIS)

“Mujahideen” = One engaged in Jihad.

“Dua” = Sincere Islamic prayer.

So, yes! This was an Islamist terrorist attack, though I seriously doubt if ISIS planned it. Way too amateurish… It may be just a case of “Shaheed (martyr) by cop”. Nevertheless they had assault rifles and got very near a “secure location”.   

These extreme Islamist terrorists will be feted as holy shaheeds, and have a place of honor in Jihadi history. Others will try to copy their "lone wolf" attempt, and ISIS will now compete with Al-Qaeda in attacks on US soil. 

So unfortunately I have to agree with the ISIS statement…this is just the beginning…