Sunday night two gunmen opened fire on a security officer outside a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad outside Dallas, Texas. One security guard was injured in the leg before the two gunmen were killed in a confrontation with police. Though NPR reports the city is unable to confirm if the shooting was directly in response to the contest, but the assumption is that is was since depicting the Prophet Muhammad is considered offensive in the Islamic tradition.
Hosting the event is the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group listed as an "active anti-Muslim group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. NPR lists some facts about the group and executive director Pamela Geller, examining where their intentions fall between free speech and anti-Muslim.
