|| By FITSNEWS || The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – America’s newest enemy in a perpetual “War on Terror” – has claimed responsibility for its first terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
The question is … “why?” The attack was a total bust … and there’s zero evidence ISIS had anything to do with it. Or even knew about it.
On Sunday evening two men – 31-year-old Elton Simpson and 34-year-old Nadir Soofi – attacked the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. The attack was launched because an anti-Islam group – the American Freedom Defense Initiative – was hosting a cartoon competition featured controversial depictions of the prophet Muhammed.
Simpson and Soofi were no doubt hoping to reprise the bloody attack on the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo in Paris four months ago … in which twelve people were slaughtered.
They failed …
Upon arriving at the facility, Simpson and Soofi began firing at a security guard – wounding him in the ankle. Garland police responded by opening fire on the two shooters – killing them both.
“Badda boom, badda bing,” as they say …
Astoundingly, ISIS believes this is a result to trumpet …
“This fair was conducting a competition of offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad,” a statement from the organization reads. “The brothers were killed during an exchange of fire, and we ask God to welcome them into heaven. And we say to America … that what is coming is worse and more bitter, and you will see from the soldiers of the Islamic State what ill will come.”
“The Islamic State soldiers will inflict harm on you with the grace of God,” the group added. “The future is just around the corner.”
The future is just around the corner?
Sheesh …
We’re not saying America shouldn’t be vigilant as it relates to credible threats against the homeland. It absolutely should. In fact that’s one of the handful of core functions the federal government ought to perform. But this botched attack isn’t evidence of ISIS at work in America – it’s evidence of opportunism on the part of the shooters and the organization.
Of course the more America meddles where it doesn’t belong – using money it doesn’t have – the more likely our country is to experience real terrorist attacks.
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Our war mongering leaders are orgasmic right now.
Everyone should be carrying a gun. Let ISIS come. I can’t blame them.
That being said, our government is the one that helped create them and is on track to lose yet again another overseas adventure, just like Vietnam, because people fight harder when their homeland is invaded- so let ISIS come here and see what it’s like for once.
All you liberal-tarians bury your heads a little deeper in the sand. Everything will be alright.
I agree. We should bomb everyone who might pose a threat without asking questions as to why.
That you used Grand Tango’s “liberaltarian” moniker is a perfect start to your post, as we know stupidity is to follow.
Always the straw-man of “bomb everyone” whenever someone calls out the fact that something needs to be done about the war being waged on American culture and society. How about let’s start by calling it the fascist and freedom-damaging ideology it is first? Leave the straw-men out of it.
“the war being waged on American culture and society.”
If you think there is a war being waged on “America culture and society”(which is dubious claim to start) for “no reason” that your problem is not with me or a “straw man”, but reality.
The reality is that these two nut jobs felt some imperative to lash out because another group of “nut jobs” decided to insult their idol.
They are all stupid.
Even further though, rest assured that those in government will use this instance to step up more overseas wars, which was my point is bringing up “bombing everyone”.
You missed the part where CNN made sure to blur out the actual paintings when reporting this story. That’s what I’m talking about. That’s the war we are losing, kowtowing to petty sensibilities for fear that we might “offend” and “incite”. You just think because it’s a couple of “nut jobs” and an “isolated incident” that it doesn’t mean anything and anybody who points out that it is part of a problematic pattern must want to go to war with them. Eventually, caving to all the “nut jobs” will become a large problem and we will be crafting laws based on their demands. That would be a legitimate use of this instance, not ” tostep up more overseas wars” (which nobody ever said to begin with). If your point is that these incidents induce a bit of paranoia in some, then I might be willing to agree with that to a certain extent. But we’ve got to quit pretending like this is meaningless. Christians would never get away with all these “isolated incidents” and be dismissed as “nut jobs”.
Daniel – CNN wouldn’t show negros hanging from a tree either, even through the KKK feels it’s their right to freedom on expression. But Fox might – unless Jeb called them to say not to.
They sure hit a nerve with you and this radical islam thing…your mother-in-law upset…the one old enough to be on Medicare but on Obamacare? LMAO!!!
I could care less about radical islam – I just think stupid is as stupid does – just like you ditching your Grand Fago handle to post as a guest because you’re such a coward. Pussy!!!! Hey, you still sleep with your Mom too?
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You think a depiction of dead bodies hanging from trees and innocuous (to most rational people) paintings of an Arab nomad is the same thing?
Guess it depends how you view the innocuous paintings – eh? Some people think paintings of a lynching are rather artistic.
“But we’ve got to quit pretending like this is meaningless. Christians would never get away with all these “isolated incidents” and be dismissed as “nut jobs”.”
You and I agree here, we just differ on what the “causes” are.
You are claiming a war on “American culture & society” without specifically stating the “why”.(and I don’t think it’s a war on American culture & society, unless you want to call what these two did a “war”…if you want to separate them from the actions the US government engages in overseas, which most here want to do)
So ask yourself, “Why?”
Are you in the Bush camp? Do “they” hate us for our freedoms?
I’m not buying that argument. Even further, I’m going to draw a distinction between what these two nut did and what other practitioners of their faith are doing overseas.
This is all we do is ask “Why?” There is no good reason or answer. To answer your question, no, I’m not aligned with the Bush doctrine that ” ‘they’ hate us for our freedom”, even though I agreed with his approach. It’s way deeper than that. In fact, I think it goes back to Islam’s origins and Muhummad’s desire to spread his message by sword and the need to stamp out any dissent from the Jewish and polytheistic tribes around the Mecca and Medina areas. It is ultimately an imperialistic mindset with a number of social pathologies, that’s why it can’t be reasoned with.
“This is all we do is ask “Why?” There is no good reason or answer. ”
THAT, is complete bullshit.
You can’t reasonably write off 1/3 of the world’s population as “lunatics”. Sorry.
Exactly.
Why? You and your secular friends,with the help of the media, have ‘written off’ Christianity. And why we are at lets ‘write off’ the 30% of liberals in this country that hate America.
I’m not “liberal” nor have a “written off” Christianity.
I have no idea how you come up with your reality.
God gave me a RINO detector…
Maybe what you think is a ‘RINO detector’ is mental illness.
No..I am not a liberal like you
I’m rubber, you’re glue.
“You can’t reasonably write off 1/3 of the world’s population as “lunatics”. Sorry.”
Let me know if I ever do that.
Seemed like your did to me, with your “there is no good reason or answer” argument followed by ” I think it goes back to Islam’s origins and Muhummad’s desire to spread his message by sword” and ” It is ultimately an imperialistic mindset with a number of social pathologies, that’s why it can’t be reasoned with.”
Seems pretty specific to me.
I’m talking about the militants and those who believe in a worldwide caliphate. The ideology behind that goes back to Islam’s origins, regardless of whether or not all Islam’s adherents espouse it is as their overarching worldview. I was merely trying to explain where I believe the militants ideology comes from. I would love to be able to say that it has been corrupted over time, but unfortunately the more history I read regarding it’s origins and the genesis of Islamic civilization lead, I’m lead to believe that it’s militant adherents take their cues from events/philosophies that took place in the seventh century. That doesn’t mean I’m indicting the other 1.5 billion, but it does mean that it’s something that we and they should take into consideration.
Great point.
No, what using the designation “Liberal-Tarian” indicates (in accordance w/ your response)…is that you are a LIBERAL…and you cannot stand being defined for what you are….
None of you want to own up to who, and what, you are…and account for what you’ve done…
R.E. is 100% right. You are the one who is IGNORANT….you cannot ignore people who are actively trying to kill anyone who does not buy into your dogma. I know liberals would also like to do that…and you just hate it when we’re on to you…
I’m not arguing with stupid people today. It’s my day off.
Get your @$$ kicked much????….LMAO…
It sure is fun to watch GT celebrate his own idiocy.
GrandTango is influencing people, God help us all, the world is ending…
Not that I care what you or anyone else thinks : But I was using liberal-tarian long before I knew of GT.
The media has not fed it to them R.E. So it startles them when someone reacts to them accurately.
That is what they are…and that’s why they are mad…and try to use me, to insult you.
Boz was the one that attacked you, not this idiot.
Yes. ,Sorry about that, looking one way and typing another.
Using GT terminology is a sure-fire way not to be taken even a little bit seriously.
Yeah…if you wanna be taken ‘seriously’ act like Buz… falsely accuse the mayor of Myrtle Beach of driving drunk…then show up at the city council meeting demanding that he resign while the mayor,other city council members and citizens laugh you out of the chamber….LMAO!!!
I see Buz removed his attack on you.Good.
Folks doesn’t get the point. The success or failure of the attack is of no importance. Just as the Doolittle raid on Japan of WWII was for for psychological reasons (we can get you in your “safe” homeland), so was this event.
No, it was an isolated violent act by two nuts against a group of other nuts who went out of their way to gin up an incident. So blatent was it that even Fox refuses to give the organizer of the event any real air time. Wil is right, ISIS had nothing to do with, except to jump in two days later and try and say they were behind it. But they probably were not.
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DId you win the contest? What you gonna do with the $10K?
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Sure, sure, but what about all the camels?
Agreed. One of these guys has been singled out by the FBI since 2007. ISIS monitors our news and knows there have been reports of ISIS Training camps on our borders so why not ratchet the hysteria-terror up a notch and claim it. What a coup for them to revel in a Mainland USA – Texas, no less, attack.
Bullshit! http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/apr/17/judicial-watch/judicial-watch-says-isis-has-camp-mexico-and-near-/
“…there have been reports…”
ISIS doesn’t care if they are substantiated or not!
True, and there’s yet another (more important) angle- this line, “…and there’s zero evidence ISIS had anything to do with it. Or even knew about it” is very telling.
Again, the Thomas Ravenel Correspondence Course entitled “Deep Thoughts on US Foreign Policy and National Defense” (available on CD at Cato.com) has performed an epic fail. The days of centrally located and managed terror networks (e.g., al Qaeda in the 90’s and early 2000’s) are history. Asymmetric warfare lectures aside, our advantages in freezing assets, eavesdropping / ELINT, and the Bush / Obama warheads-on-foreheads program pretty effectively killed that era. As is usually the case, the other side didn’t just fold up the tent and go home, they adapted.
Anyone who’s read even a cursory bit on terror over the past ten years knows that the new normal is the “leaderless jihad,” which, while not as effective at mounting large scale coordinated attacks such as 9/11, is very effective at creating crappy little ops like the Garland, Texas nitwittery. The new networks specialize in spreading their whacked out theology via social media and the web, and they’re very effective at both recruiting ground troops for the centralized war (e.g., ISIL) and helping nitwits self-radicalize wherever they are.
ISIL didn’t train, equip, and ship these two clowns to Texas, but the theory that were intimately involved in their radicalization is a near-certainty. The local radicalized cells are told to attack the US “when and where they are” in accordance with the fatwas and general ideology / theology espoused by al Qaeda and ISIL. No time to hammer it out here, but the vast majority of recent attacks fall into this categorization. In perhaps the best known case, al Qaeda didn’t send Nidal Hasan over to Fort Hood in 2009; he was already there. they were, however, partly responsible for that attack. If you don’t believe me, ask Hasan. He’s telling anyone who will listen…
Don’t you know that this happened because we bombed the families of 31-year-old Elton Simpson and 34-year-old Nadir Soofi. We should not be bombing Arizona with drones. We have no business being in Arizona, spending money we don’t have. We should withdraw all troops and let them settle their own scores.
No one thinks what you just typed, don’t let that interfere with your straw man however.
“No one thinks what you just typed,”
Precisely my point.
A good holy war would end all of this.
Obama is already waging a holy war…in the religion of Liberalism…and all it has done is F*#ked up the country, more….Dumb@$$….
The fact that you – and so many Dumb-F*#ks like you -did not know that…is the reason so many “Jihadists” get away w/ it…
The power of Obama compels you!
The power of Obama compels you!
Is Father Karras anything like Rev. Jeremiah (America’s Chickens- GD America) Wright…LMAO….????
You really are a scurge. What’s more alarming than your syphillis mouth and clap-infested mind, is there’s a whole demographic (or dumbographic) of people like you. Why don’t you go out into the world and spout this stuff in say Basra or Baghdad – we could call you Tango Hebado.
come homerocky????
You ALWAYS indicate to me, when I NAIL it. Thanks. (:
LMAO…
I’d love to see FITS carry his no-talent @$$ over to Iran or Iraq…and tell them he’s a non-repentant American (not that he’d do that)…and I bet would FITS S#!t all over himself when his ISIS buddies got out the beheading sword, anyway….
I’m sure this ignorant MoFo’s last words would be: “But I told er’body how peaceful y’all is….Hahahahaha..
There is stupid..and then there is F*#king ignorant…and FITS is F*#king ignorant…He just better be glad he lives in a country that protects the terminally F*#ked up in the head…otherwise that A$$-hole would not make it past age 10….
Some people certainly do NOT deserve the title of American Citizen…and that is CERTAINLY true of FITS…and Obama (not that he is)….LMAO…
Nor Pamala Geller.
She’s making the media look like the F*#king Terrorist-sucking idiots they are…
I’d love to see FITS debate Ms Geller. She’s laying out you Dumb@$$#$, one after another…it’s GREAT to watch…
Why don’t you go on TV and endorse her for POTUS?
See, the fact that nuts like you support her is the reason that even FOX won’t give her air-time.
Just like Haley could not get elected – and Timbucktu could… because I voted for one and not the other….LMAO…Dumb@$$…
And: I’ve seen Geller all over the airwaves,…and if she is not being booked anymore. it’s because she’s slapped the $#!t out of carping little fools, like you…and they fear her…
No Jeb called Fox and said nix her coverage and attack her – because Jeb runs the GOP and the machine. Jeb Bush, bringing amnesty and Common Core to all of America.
So now your champion is a Republican…That shows how much you know Obama has F*#ked up the brand of the Democrat Party.
You’ve dropped Hillary…and you’re clinging to Jeb to save the Dream, Obama has so killed for you…LMAO….
At least you admit you failed….That’s progress for you…
Rocky the paid hac knows Jeb is the only candidate Hillary could run within 2%. My sources have an electoral landslide for republicans from the midwest to the west…Virginia and Florida…
If the GOP does not win…the country continues to swirl…We’re in BIG trouble if another Democrat gets a shot at F*#king us up, even more than Obama has….This country cannot take any more of the Democrat Disaster…
Don’t worry, historical trend is on your side. Rarely, if ever, does the party with a two-term hold on the White House hold it.
NEVER has a political party lost 75 house seats,11 senate seats,9 governorships and 1500 seats in state legislatures in a ‘two-term hold’ on power.
Obama and the Democrats managed to do it.
True, and the Republicans managed to do it. Don’t give all the credit to Obama, smart strategy by the GOP at the state level had a lot to do with it. It was rather masterful – even I must admit.
Conceding already…the DNC must be sending out memos to its minions…LMAO…
My guess is even the DNC knows the country will collapse, and is not worth having, if another Democrat is elected president…or in control of Congress…
Regardless of whether or not the woman and her group are totally bugfuck, they had every right to have that contest — and those who entered had every right to create and submit their work.
That’s an important point that should not be lost. Ed Schultz and others like him are full of shit for not stressing it, because they are too overloaded by ideological dogma.
No religious figure or even deity should be immune from criticism or mockery, in a free society.
VERY Correct post Buzzman. It’s funny how so many liberals are backing down from freedom of speech, because they agree w/ the Barbarians – in their hate for Patriots – trying to squelch it…
You’re free to walk around the Mall and call everyone’s wives fat shits too, but if you get punched in the face, don’t cry about it.
Like Trayvon Martin and the ‘gentle giant’ in Ferguson?
So you support murder by Jihadists, if they feel insulted by people who do not believe, like you, and them????…
If decent people ever follow your extremist dogma…your @$$ will get BLOWED UP post-haste…because you are awash in some Stupid-@$$ beliefs..that are VERY offensive to normal and contributing people….
I’m not condoning the attack by wacko one and wacko two, but I’m not condoning Pamala Geller’s stupid stunt which, as Trump said this morning, was stupid. She was exercising free speech in a moronic way, that got a cop shot. No one is standing up for her, not even your friends at Fox, and not Donald Trump – the looniest of them all. When you’re shunned by Trump, you’re pretty much off the board in Stupidville.
You condone all that is morally and culturally evil in this world…now you are defending terrorists…really sad
Yes you are…
Drawing cartoons and having Islamic fanatics being upset with them have nothing to do with foreign military bases overseas idiots…
It was all over Free Speech. Free Speech is cool. George Wallace was a huge Free Speech guy. And it worked out well for him. He literally didn’t have to walk for the last years of his life, he got a free ride. In a wheelchair. See, you can say whatever you want. You just are held accountable for it.
wow…like Mike Brown in Ferguson you mean?
Yeah. Sure.
Rocky is a northern New Jersey carpetbagger. Pay no attention.
From Breitbart – Donald Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul and potential Republican Presidential candidate, appeared on Fox and Friends Monday and ripped into Pamela Geller’s “Draw Muhammad” free speech event in Garland, Texas, which came under fire by two Islamic terrorists.
“I watched Pam prior, and it looked like she’s just taunting everybody,” Said Trump. “What is she doing drawing Muhammad? And it looks like she’s actually taunting people – and it’s disgusting that it happened and everything else. But why are they doing drawing Muhammad? Isn’t there something else they can draw.”
When Trump is the voice of reason, you’re truly on the wrong side of right.
And the Breitfart faithful responding –
Person One – “haha “The Donald” has never had a basic grasp of anything but publicity and cronycapitalism.”
Person Two – “Hey Donald Dump it’s called the first amendment. Used to have it in this country until lobs like you started deciding who has the right.”
Person Three – “Donald, keep your mouth shut. It’s called free speech and protected under the 1st Amendment. Geller has more guts than you have.”
Person Four – “Ms Geller is a hell of a lot braver than you , trump. She is practicing FREE SPEECH. The kind that the king of england tried to outlaw in the colonies back in the 1700’s.”
ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR TEXAS SHOOTING; WARNS OF MORE…
Hey FITS: Dumb@$$ Much???…LMAO….
I just heard that the US military is planning an operation this summer, using closed Wal Mart stores, to institute marshal law in Texas this summer. Part of the plan is to arrest Republicans and militia and house them in special political prisoner camps in the Wal Marts, as the start of initiating Sharia law in the state. According to what I read on some important and truthful blogs, the Governor of Texas is mobilizing the Texas National Guard to monitor US troops in multiple military bases in the Lone Star State. God help us all, the Muslim Obama is moving to overthrow the government and make us all bend to his will.
….bringhometaco’s…????
It’s true. I saw it on a blog. We should all keep a watchful eye on Parris Island and Fort Jackson – the overthrow in SC will start there.
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A contest like this only makes sense if it’s a sting operation designed to provoke would-be jihadists into blowing their cover and getting mown down by the authorities. I can see TX doing that.
I find it odd that many Americans when polled (trending to older folks and those who lean right) name ISIS as the most pressing danger and issue above everything else.
This is America. When you think about the logistics and actual capability those assholes will never be able to “invade” America and take it over. The best they can do is round up a couple of sand thugs every so often and launch an attack here and there. That’s all they got.
Should we be vigilant? Absolutely we should, but c’mon people….these are not the great Mongol hordes.