Bill
02-18-2015, 3:56pm
Group to hold Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas
KTRK
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:00AM
GARLAND, TX (KTRK) --
A month after hundreds of people protested outside a Muslim conference in suburban Dallas, a group critical of Islam has scheduled a meeting in the same building.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative will hold a "Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest" on May 3 in Garland, Texas, with a prize for the best cartoon. Many Muslims consider depictions of the prophet offensive.
The Dallas Morning News reports that a group co-founder, Pamela Geller, organized the January protests outside a conference held by a Muslim group.
Geller says the contest is a direct response to Islamic terrorists' deadly attack on a Paris newspaper that had published cartoons of Muhammad.
She said on her website that "the Muslim world has (to) stop imposing its savagery on the non-Muslim and secular Muslim world."
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KTRK
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:00AM
GARLAND, TX (KTRK) --
A month after hundreds of people protested outside a Muslim conference in suburban Dallas, a group critical of Islam has scheduled a meeting in the same building.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative will hold a "Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest" on May 3 in Garland, Texas, with a prize for the best cartoon. Many Muslims consider depictions of the prophet offensive.
The Dallas Morning News reports that a group co-founder, Pamela Geller, organized the January protests outside a conference held by a Muslim group.
Geller says the contest is a direct response to Islamic terrorists' deadly attack on a Paris newspaper that had published cartoons of Muhammad.
She said on her website that "the Muslim world has (to) stop imposing its savagery on the non-Muslim and secular Muslim world."
Map My News
Group to hold Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas | abc13.com (http://abc13.com/news/group-to-hold-muhammad-cartoon-contest-in-texas/522403/)