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Third Muslim arrested in jihad attack on AFDI Garland free speech event

Jun 16, 2015 11:18 am By Robert Spencer

“The indictment indicates that Kareem took the shooters — Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi — to practice shooting and gave them assault rifles.” Clearly this was planned for a considerable time, and these jihad murderers are likely to have chosen a soft target.

“Third Man Arrested in Garland ‘Draw Muhammad’ Shooting: Authorities,” by Todd L. Davis, NBCDFW.com, June 16, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Investigators said they arrested a third person in connection with the shooting outside a “Draw the Prophet” contest in Garland in May.

According to Phoenix NBC affiliate KPNX, a federal grand jury indicted Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, also known as Decarus Thomas, on charges of conspiracy, weapons possession and lying to federal investigators.

The indictment indicates that Kareem took the shooters — Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi — to practice shooting and gave them assault rifles.

Simpson and Soofi opened fire on an unarmed security officer stationed outside the contest at the Curtis Culwell Center May 3, according to authorities. The security guard was wounded in the leg before the gunmen were killed at the scene.

According to the indictment, Kareem told FBI agents two days later that he did not know Simpson and Soofi and denied knowing about the planned shooting.

The indictment does not spell out where the guns came from or where Kareem was during the attacks. It also says nothing about any potential ties to terrorism or ISIS.

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Filed Under: American Freedom Defense Initiative, American jihadis, free speech, Jihad in the U.S., Muhammad cartoons Tagged With: Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, Decarus Thomas


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  1. ConnectingDots says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 11:42 am

    Dear President Obama,

    If you had a son, would he look like Decarus Thomas?

    If not, why not?

    Discuss.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 1:27 pm

      Because Decarus’ has grey in his beard maybe? Although you’re right, that great racist mullato Prez Barack Hussein isn’t discriminating when he ruminates about this guy or that guy maybe looking like him.

      I always wonder when he says that line, does Barack’s vision have the guy having his Alfred E. Newman ears?

      • JamesonRocks says

        Jun 16, 2015 at 2:55 pm

        Hmmm… I have grey in my goatee.

        • mortimer says

          Jun 16, 2015 at 3:23 pm

          When will Obama get serious about jihad…how close to him does it need to be?

          My guess is unless jihadists come close to him, he will never come to understand Islam.

          Only a minority of 15% of Muslims need to support jihad for it to succeed. Right now 15% of Muslims support jihad. They only need a charismatic leader.

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Jun 17, 2015 at 9:03 am

          Hmmm. You’re screen name is after an Irish whiskey, but that could be a diversion. Let me axe you a few of questions:

          1) Have you ever had emotional outbursts after worship on a Friday afternoon?

          2) When something bad happens to you, have you ever blamed it on somebody else and claimed to be a victim?

          3) Have you ever participated in a gang rape?

          4) Have you ever threatened an Infidel person with murder, or murdered an Infidel?

          If the answer is Yes to any of these three questions, we’re gonna have to bring you in for further questioning.

  2. ich says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    The cartoon is just an excuse.
    These losers took solace in the one religion that loves to hurt the innocent.
    If we all know this stuff is swept under the rug , you know THEY all know it too.

    ISLAM gets a free ride from people like Obama and in Canada-Justin Trudeau.
    They are all about votes. Human lives? They could care less.

    I would love to say pull the hell out and let them all kill themselves.
    But we know it wont happen.

    I think we can only remain vigilant.

    BEWARE !!!

  3. Gerald B. says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    Soft target?

    I guess it wasn’t as soft as they thought it would be. And thank God for that!

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 9:52 pm

      Hear, hear!

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    a federal grand jury indicted Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem…

    I wonder if he’s related to Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Does he have a case of Tourette’s Syndrom where he involuntarily repeats the word Abdul? And, given that Kareem means generous, what was the gift brought by him to the two would be mass murderers? Yeah, the assault rifles were a nice thought, but I hope he also gave them the gift of encouragement.

    … also known as Decarus Thomas…

    When Abdul Abdul is in between men’s prison shower room scenes in the Pokey, he should kill time reading the works of Rep Keith Ellison D-MN and Andre Carson D-IN. They are sympatico with his kind.

    … on charges of conspiracy, weapons possession and lying to federal investigators.

    So, all of a sudden conspiracy theory is OK? If it is, reopen the case on who did what around the McMurrah building in OK City in 1995. And, are they now gonna charge the federal “investigators” who’ve been lying to us since 2001?

  5. Angemon says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 12:55 pm

    The indictment does not spell out where the guns came from

    Certainly not out of thin air. I can only suspect that, while being looked into, that matter makes little or no difference for the charges he was arrested for.

  6. Marty says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    For my sins I’m what some Americans might call a White Liberal.
    In the UK I’m a conservative.
    This guy is black and thick as shit.
    Any black person who converts to islam is a moron.
    Islam was at the heart of the slave trade, dealing in Christian, Black, Jewish, any sort of slave.
    The Blacks were kidnapped by Africans and surplus slaves sold to arab mohammedans.
    The arabs, who are deeply racist, castrated any black males they wanted to use, the rest were sold, intact to Western Christians who treated them as a cash crop and encouraged them to breed.
    It was Jews and Christians, especially British, who abolished the vile trade, and today only muslims
    (african and arab) continue with the vile practice.
    I repeat any black who converts to islam is a moron and deserves the fate in store for him/her.

    • ich says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 2:57 pm

      Sure makes you feel vulnerable when the elected leaders do nothing
      to protect you. I see why people in the USA want guns.
      I would too !! And a concrete bunker.

      ISLAM’S curse has entered both USA & Canada.
      But nowhere near the damage that Europe has.

      I cant believe they put up with it.
      I really cant.
      UK-the land of scousers , geordies & cockneys etc etc etc

      What happened to anyone being tough anymore ?!
      We seem to curl up in a ball.

    • Wellington says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 3:26 pm

      I see, Marty, we think alike. View my 2:53 P.M. post for confirmation of this. Yes indeed, blacks who are Muslim are truly pathetic. Mohammed himself referred to blacks as “raisinheads.” {Bukhari Hadith 1.11.662}

      Actually, anyone who is not an Arab and a Muslim is a pretty damn sad excuse for a human being since Islam has served as a vehicle for Arab “enhancement” from its inception. Just look at the rot about Arabic being such a perfect language and that’s why, per twisted Muslim thinking, the Koran was written in it by Mohammed’s sock puppet, Allah.

      My God, the rot, nonsense and heinousness in Islam is all over the place. Only sheer ignorance or willful blindness allows for Islam to continue to be respected. Sadly, there remains a great deal of ignorance and willful blindness out there about this worst of religions. Huge amounts.

      • Marty says

        Jun 17, 2015 at 4:57 am

        Just seen your comment.
        Absolutely correct.
        I forget the author’s name but White Gold is a sobering read, about so called
        Christian slaves in 17th century Morocco.
        It is conveniently forgotten, but according to a boffin from the United Services Institute, we may have cause to remember it.
        He claims IS want to occupy a small island in the Bristol Channel which mohammedan slavers used as a base for holding slaves captured from as far North as the Scottish Islands.
        IS reckon its capture woulld show the sleepy UK that it really means business.

    • TruthWFree says

      Jun 17, 2015 at 11:04 am

      Your statements here could have come from me, a conservative. I think both blacks and Muslims play the victim card (you are racist, you are Islamophobic) (not all, but many in general) and that’s the common ground for these idiots becoming Muslims. Also hatred of Christianity as a White Man’s religion in the case of many blacks (not all). Unfortunately, America is still paying for the sin of slavery today. Blacks are the only group to come here involuntarily. All others were looking for a better life and freedom.

      • Marty says

        Jun 17, 2015 at 11:51 am

        As a secular conservative, I do believe that truth is sacred, and so are Western values.
        This means that I have no religious beliefs, but, “by their fruit shall ye judge them”
        and the comparisons between Judeo Christianity and Islam speak volumes.
        As Churchill noted, we must stop mohammedans acquiring Western technology.
        Today we are selling top of the range stuff to one of the most evil regimes on Earth,
        and allowing mass immigration by muslims and actually giving them taxpayer funded schools to raise ill adapted young people who hate the country that has succored them.
        Personally, as an atheist, I’d defend and encourage mainstream Christianity and Judaism
        since alone amongst all religions they no longer inhibit genuine progress, while giving useful alternatives when we seem to be reckless in our embrace of all that’s new.

  7. Wellington says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    It’s both extra sad and bitterly amusing for me whenever I see a black who is a Muslim. Blacks should avoid Islam like the plague and excoriate it without cessation.

    Islam began engaging in black slavery from the seventh century onwards. By contrast, the Judeo-Christian Western world started to participate in this iniquitous institution only in the fifteenth century. Moreover, the Judeo-Christian Western world eventually realized the great wrong of African slavery and ended it in the nineteenth century and has also apologized profusely for engaging in it. By contrast, the Islamic world still carries on with this heinous institution, despite many efforts by the Western world to eradicate it from the Islamic world, and has NEVER apologized for participating in it just as it has never apologized for any of its other massive wrongs committed in its name (e.g., killing millions upon millions of Hindus and destroying a great deal of Hindu art).

    I proceed on the assumption that every Muslim is a confused human being, but anyone who is black and a Muslim I consider extra confused. I challenge anyone to tell me why my thinking this way is not valid, why it is in error. I assert it can’t be done.

    • TheBuffster says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 6:13 pm

      Your thinking seems sound to me, Wellington.

  8. PRCS says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    Note the “Prophet Muhhamad”

    2 Shot, Killed Outside Prophet Muhammad Art Event

    No, it wasn’t.

  9. TheBuffster says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    Looks like Pam and Robert have managed to help the cops take down three jihadists. Not bad, not bad at all!

    The intention of the event wasn’t to create a trap for jihadis, but – BONUS!!!

    On another topic: from the article – “Simpson and Soofi opened fire on an unarmed security officer stationed outside the contest…”

    I do wonder, though, what an *unarmed* security guard was doing at the event, given the nature of the situation. It seems to me that only well-trained and armed officers should have been on duty.

  10. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    The headline gave me a start:
    “Third Man Arrested in Garland ‘Draw Muhammad’ Shooting: Authorities”.

    I don’t remember seeing any news about the first two men who were arrested in this case. And the news article actually says:
    “The indictment also says others were involved, but *no other arrests* or indictments *have been made*.” (emphasis added)

    So Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem (kafir name Decarus Thomas) is the *first* man to have been arrested in this case. Here, the fault lies with the headline writer, not the reporter Todd L. Davis, who, however, refers to a “Draw the Prophet” contest in Garland, TX, indicating that the sponsors Spencer and Geller refer to Muhammad as “the Prophet”.

    But soft! If you look at Davis’s actual article at
    http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Third-Man-Arrested-in-Garland-Draw-Muhammad-Shooting-Authorities-307578041.html ,
    his first paragraph is different from what is quoted here
    on JihadWatch. Davis does not assert that there was
    any contest under the title of “Draw the Prophet”.
    Who changed Davis’s wording? A stealth jihadi?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 10:06 pm

      Mark, there’s nothing particularly nefarious going on here. Newspaper headlines are often written by special headline writers depending on space, and they often only skim the articles.

      What it should have read is that this creep was the third man *apprehended*. The first two, of course, were shot when they tried to attack the auditorium in Garland Texas.

      As for “draw the prophet”, they are clearly conflating this event with the disgusting “defend the prophet” event held by pious Muslims in Garland this past January.

      • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

        Jun 16, 2015 at 10:37 pm

        Thanks, gravenimage (and Ronald B), for this explanation.
        The headline made me think I must have missed the news about the two men who were previously arrested (so I could find their names and calculate the Muhammad Coefficient for the five men involved in this crime: the two shooters and the three arrestees).
        That must have been what happened — sloppy headline wording and a rewrite of the first paragraph to remove reference to a “Draw the Prophet” contest.

  11. RonaldB says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    I don’t know exactly what your point is.

    Everyone knows there were two shooters involved, and they are dead.

    But, a third suspect has been found, he is alive, and was arrested. Taken literally, the wording could be ambiguous, but I found no confusion in it.

    The article at the news site is worded completely differently from the quoted article at Jihad Watch, so there may have been an extensive rewrite. In any case, the rewritten article definitely referred to the prophet muhammad (lower case intended).

    All 3 of these guys sound like long-time losers. Note that al-qaeda is calling for individual jihad in western countries, designed to foster a general fear of violence directed towards any person who speaks his mind about Islam…or just to prove that Western society is no longer viable.

    “A man has been charged with helping plan an attack on a provocative Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas that ended with two Phoenix men being killed in a shootout with police.”

  12. gravenimage says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    Third Muslim arrested in jihad attack on AFDI Garland free speech event
    …………………….

    Another “revert” with dead shark eyes and murder on his mind. Glad they caught him before he plotted more violent Jihad.

    • particolor says

      Jun 17, 2015 at 5:43 am

      Three Strikes and Your Out !! Get them all out of Your Ballpark ! Next thing You know they will want to Run the Show !! 🙂 🙂

  13. duh_swami says

    Jun 17, 2015 at 9:20 am

    ‘A bad tree can’t produce good fruit,’ Islam is the negative of the ‘Tree of Life’, It is, ‘The Tree of Death’. If you’re looking for shade on a really hot day, the Tree of Death is the wrong one to sit under…

    • Huck Folder says

      Jun 18, 2015 at 2:52 am

      But it’s a good one to sit under while memorizing “The Book of Hate™”

      hairy
      arsed
      fellating
      islamist
      zombie

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