by a group called the american freedom defense initiative. as you know depicting the prophet muhammad in that way is considered blasfemts to many of the islamic faith. this was billed at a free speech event. we do not know a thing about the suspects who were killed. their identities have not been made public. police have not officially said if this was random or if the event was specifically targeted. listen to this there may be a digital trail, if you will before the shooting a tweet showed up on social media from an account called sharia is light. it said something to the effect of may allah accept us as mujahideen. the hashtag texas attack was used. this was before the shooting happened. this is clearly a key piece of evidence that investigators will be looking at in this very fluid and developing situation, guys.
allowed the same room actually and same facility to be used for a group that was actually seeking to silence criticism of the prophet muhammad. so they could decide they re not going to do anything but they need to be even handed about it. they had that event, they would need to allow this event. that s why they decided to have it there in january. there was a controversy and it went off last night with a hitch. ken emmanuel who was there last night, thank you very much for joining us from our dallas newsroom. this is significant, because you remember what happened with paris with the newspaper who came out and they were doing cartoons they not islamic extremism was a bad thing. there was reaction within the islamic extremist community and. both those assailants are dead but they had to be gunned down after a few minutes of drama. one of the people who was the
of trouble there, too. once again, because of the fact that he had drawn muhammad and many muslims find it offensive to depict muhammad in any fashion. right. and one of the keynote speakers is somebody who says i don t hate muslims, but i do hate islam. in fact, john kerry himself was asked by keith elson of the great state of minnesota please do not allow this man to come into the united states to speak at this particular event. the keynote speaker was a dutch lawmaker known for being a hard liner against islam. we ll keep an eye here in texas. now we ll turn to heather nauert. i have some things i want to bring you. nypd officer brian moore remains in serious condition after he was shot point blank in the face. the 25-year-old and his partner were on patrol in queens new york on saturday night when they
happening there. you said we re going to have the contrary in the same room. you hired extra security. because you felt it was important to make a statement. and you did. didn t you? i did. we did. hundreds of americans did. that conference that you re referring to was against freedom of speech. they had an unindicted co-conspirator speaker who was an unindicted co-conspirator. it wasn t a week after the charlie hebdo slaughter. wouldn t it have been wonderful if the american muslim leaders had a conference in defense of free speech. that would have been the way forward. i m not holding my breath after all these years. what can you tell us more about the investigation? i understand security drove you home and one of the security people said to you, one of them tried to get inside the building, correct?
charlie hebdo massacre that muslim groups had a conference in the same room standing with the prophet conference in support of the blasphemy laws under the sharia. in support of the idealogy. yes, we had a freedom of speech conference. without freedom of speech peaceful men will have no choice to resort to violence. the first amendment protects all speech not just ideas we like. most particularly political speech. who is to decide what s good and for forbidden? this is free speech. this is the key issue of our age. pamela you just brought up the event in the same building in the same room that was in january, where the speakers there were talking about thou there s so many people who are anti-muslim in the country. they had freedom of speech to have their event. you went ahead, you saw that