Garland Texas Ten Years After: The FBI and Islamic State attack on free expression

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May 3rd, is the tenth anniversary of quite a significant event in terms of Islamic terror in the United States.

Given that, and that Trump is in the White House, and the Texan government is in theory at least, constitutionally oriented, this may be the moment where a little pressure can be applied and Trump along with Pam Bondi and Kash Patel might open up the FBI files on the attack and tell us what actually happened. In retrospect, knowing what we now know about the FBI, it may not be surprising what their role in all this was. But at the time, it was unthinkable that the FBI would have a central role in a jihad attack against American Citizens unless you were really paying attention to Obama and his Office of the CVE. Like we all were here at Vlad. ?

RAIR Foundation has been doing a series of articles with interviews of the principal people involved in the event. To recap: A few months after the Islamic jihad brutal slaughter of cartoonists and staff at Charlie Hebdo in France, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller rented a venue in Garland Texas and held a Draw Mohammad cartoon contest. The reason being, the only rational response to a group of violent Islamic terrorists telling you what you cannot express, must be met with everyone expressing it. Especially, although not exclusively, when it comes to something as benign as merely drawing a potentially fictional historical character.

The attackers were two Muslims who drove to the building from somewhere in Arizona, accompanied by an undercover FBI agent. The name of that agent and files on the event, have been sealed. But if the FBI agent was able to be convincing enough to join a cell of Islamic terrorists, and in fact was the one who chose the target, we can make a few guesses about him.

Tom Trento was the man on site live streaming the event. The following interview contains some footage of the events as they took place inside the Garland conference centre. Tom was a central figure in the counter-jihad at the time as well. He explains events as they happened with a great deal of clarity.

Article at RAIR

The winner of the cartoon contest is an American whose family is of Bosnian descent, Bosch Fawstin. One would call him an apostate if one was Muslim, but one would just call him American if you knew him.

This interview is really lucid and to the point. I would hope as many people as possible get a chance to see it. Article at RAIR

Please stay tuned for at least one more interview on this topic.

At this point I am going to play advocatus diaboli a little bit in terms of the FBI involvement.

The files are hidden for the moment. But it’s a huge open question. So in the interests of an intellectual exercise, here is how it could have gone down. It might explain some things, but NOT that the FBI had promised to inform the organizers of any potential plot against the event, and then failed to do so.

The FBI agent, in this case certainly an agent, as he likely was recruited to penetrate cells as opposed to a trained FBI officer, was probably Muslim and either was religious, or appeared religious enough and knew enough to fool an Islamic State cell well enough to be taken into confidence.

The initial intention was to attack the Super Bowl, which was somewhere nearby in time and location, but it was the FBI officer who convinced the IS cell to change targets to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland. This is the truly inflammatory aspect to this event.

What makes it possibly less horrifying than it does on the surface might be that the Super Bowl could be considered a soft target where multiple locations might offer access to jihadis where they could do a great deal of damage before being stopped. But the Garland centre was a very hardened target. They had police, private armed security, snipers and participants were inside a building with few exits and entrance was scrutinized.

The terrorists pulled up and open fire on security, wounding one man and then where shot dead by the various lines of defence established to protect the event. So one might argue that this was a way to save a lot of lives, Force the terrorists up against a hardened target where they would do little to no damage and get killed by trained gunmen instead of hiding somewhere and killing and wounding huge numbers of football fans, exiting the event.

IF this is the case, then the question is why did they not inform the organizers of this plan as they promised they would? After all, the FBI agent was alone in his own car following the two jihadis as the drove to the Curtis Cullwell Centre in Garland Texas? He would have had a lot of time to make the call. And even according to the X files, the FBI had cell phones back in 2015.

In any case, this is a more significant event than it is in the public consciousness. And that is likely in part, due to Obama’s office of the CVE and its modus operandi. So please watch these interviews and subsequent ones on this subject, and pass them on to your own circles. Its understanding events like this that help build a model with some predictive value of how our civilization is rapidly becoming both communist and Islamic in nature. And both systems are anti individual, anti rights for people with rights being granted to fictional collectives, and especially with communism, arbitrary laws that change without notice but are often applied to people retroactively against anyone who can be made to even appear counter-revolutionary.

There is more than one way to fight back against totalitarian demands on our society. But surrendering to their arbitrary demands is not one of them.

Source: https://vladtepesblog.com/2025/05/03/garland-texas-ten-years-after-the-fbi-and-islamic-state-attack-on-free-expression/