Geller and Spencer event in Texas marred by shooting

It was only a matter of time. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have bravely been speaking out against Islamic jihad for years. Today the jihadists opened fire. Two Islamists have been shot dead, and one officer has been wounded. Robert and Pamela were conducting a free speech event in Garland, Texas. Wills Robinson reports for Daily Mail that the Islamic suspects

were carrying explosives at the time, and another two bombs were discovered nearby. The attack unfolded shortly after Dutch member of parliament and leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders, had delivered his keynote speech.

Artist Bosh Fawstin (left) is presented with a check for 12,500 by Dutch politician Geert Wilders (center) and Pamela Geller (right) during a ceremony at the Curtis Culwell Center just before the shootings occurred.
Read more here. People are still on lockdown at the Center, but you know Geller and Spencer will be tweeting and blogging about this when they are off of lockdown.

Nomann Merchant writes from Garland for Associated Press:

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.

Read more here.