May 3, 2025
Ten years ago, in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, Islamic terrorists opened fire on a free speech event because Americans dared to draw Muhammad. That moment — May 3, 2015 — should have been a turning point in the West’s battle against Islamic supremacy. Instead, it was quickly buried by media silence, political cowardice, and a deepening national amnesia of Islamic terror in America.
Just four months earlier, in January 2015, the staff of Charlie Hebdo in Paris were massacred by Islamic terrorists for publishing cartoons of Muhammad. Incredibly, within weeks of that slaughter, an Islamic group held a “Stand with the Prophet” event at the very same venue in Garland, Texas, calling for restrictions on free speech critical of Islam. In response, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer resolved to host a counter-event in the exact location — one that celebrated, rather than surrendered, the First Amendment. That moment — May 3, 2015 — should have been a turning point in the West’s battle against Islamic supremacy. Instead, it was quickly buried by media silence, political cowardice, and a deepening national amnesia.
While the bullets in Garland failed to kill the First Amendment, the real threat never left. Today, that threat has evolved. It no longer arrives with assault rifles, but with land purchases, real estate development, city charters, and Sharia-based political influence. What jihad failed to accomplish with blood is now being pursued through bureaucracy. And Texas is ground zero.
In 2015, Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim and bold critic of Islam, drew a cartoon of Muhammad holding a sword saying, “You can’t draw me.” Underneath, he wrote: “That’s why I draw you.”
That act of defiance won him first prize in a free speech contest hosted at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) with the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Jihad Watch. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer led the event. Dutch politician Geert Wilders flew in under armed protection to deliver a chilling warning about Islamic censorship. Moments after he left the stage, two ISIS-inspired jihadists attempted to slaughter everyone in attendance.
They failed. Garland police officer Greg Stevens, who had never fired his weapon in the line of duty, took down both terrorists within seconds, despite their body armor and assault rifles. His actions saved hundreds of lives and ended what became the first ISIS attack on American soil. But the real story was not the failed assault; it was what followed: media silence, FBI cover-up, and the West’s refusal to take the Islamic threat seriously.
Now, ten years later, RAIR Foundation sat down with eyewitnesses and survivors to reflect on the Garland attack and draw urgent connections to today’s rapidly escalating Islamic infiltration in Texas.
“We Got Attacked for Drawing Pictures. What Do You Think Will Happen When a City Is Built for Sharia?”
Tom Trento, founder of The United West, was livestreaming the event from inside the venue when the bullets started flying outside.” In a powerful interview with RAIR, he revealed the facts that corporate media buried:
We were attacked in Garland, Texas, because we dared to draw Muhammad. Ten years later, Texas is allowing Islamic enclaves to be built from the ground up, like EPIC City, openly aligned with Sharia. Wake up, Texas. If jihadists tried to murder us over a cartoon, what do you think will happen when you hand them actual governance power over American soil?” READ MORE
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SOURCE: RAIR Foundation