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Tuesday 05 May 2015 - 11:16 Makkah mean time-16-7-1436
Investigators at the scene of the shooting on Monday. (Image from Getty)
Garland, Texas (IINA) - American Muslim leaders reasserted their position that anti-Muslim advocate Pamela Gellar is free to draw whatever she wants. They also decried the shooting incident, OnIslam reported.
Sunday's controversial anti-Muslim cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) contest in Garland, Texas, resulted in the shooting deaths of two gunmen by police officers. “We cannot fight free speech, as ugly as it is sometimes, with violence against people. Never justifiable. #garlandshooting #texasattack,” Linda Sarsour, national advocacy director of the National Network for Arab American Communities, tweeted.
Texas police shot dead two gunmen who reportedly opened fire on Sunday night outside an event organized by an anti-Islamic group to exhibit drawings of the Prophet.
Sunday's attack took place at about 7 pm in a parking lot of the Curtis Culwell Center, an indoor arena in Garland, northeast of Dallas.
"The first suspect was shot immediately," Garland Mayor Douglas Athas told CNN. "The second suspect was wounded and reached for his backpack. He was shot again."
The "Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest" was organized by right-wing, anti-Muslim advocate Pam Geller, co-founder of the Freedom Defense and Stop Islamization of America initiatives, who has been denounced by numerous rights organizations, including both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center for her anti-Muslim rhetoric and hate campaigns.
Geert Wilders, a polarizing Dutch politician and anti-Islam campaigner, was among the speakers at Sunday's event.
Shortly after the shooting, a prominent Muslim leader in Dallas tweeted that the incident was "just what we didn't want."
Despite Muslim condemnations, hate calls spread swiftly on the social media, with some calling for burning mosques in America.
“Time to close or burn all #mosques in America. Deport all #Muslims,” a Twitter user Tommy posted.
Sarsour, the US Muslim civil rights advocate, called for putting an end to this hate.
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