This is a 1st amendment issue. I fully support this type of event, and I'll explain why. It’s more important that you might think at first blush, and the easy way out is to criticize as inflammatory, or to otherwise argue to suppress it as you do.

Islam has a long history, dating back to Muhammad himself, of following a conscious strategy of shutting down any criticism of Islam, and more especially of Muhammad. You need to study the history and biography of Muhammad to better understand it, but the gist of it was … he wanted no opposition to his new religion. He consciously killed, or had killed on his orders, what might be deemed “major media figures” of his day. (Poets in 7th century Arabia were especially influential and, as it turns out, Muhammad was a gifted poet which is why the Koran sound like poetry when you read it.)

For example, Muhammad had a wealthy Jewish merchant by the name of Kab Ashraf assassinated in public for publishing poems critical of him. The more famous murder was of a wife and mother named Asma. Muhammad had an assassin creep into her tent at night while she was sleeping. Her offense was composing a poem critical of the Yathrib (i.e. Mecca) tribes for not resisting Muhammad more strongly than they did. The assassin of Asma lifted a sleeping baby from Asma’s breast before plunging a sword thru her heart.

The point is … Muhammad knew that most people could be terrorized into ceasing their criticism by a periodic use of force. Guess what … it worked. Muhammad subdued Yathrib, renamed the town Medina, and after winning several battles against the Meccans, Islam expanded rapidly by the sword and terror.

Nothing much has changed with that strategy of silencing criticism over the past 1,400 years by terror. That is EXACTLY what is going on with the attempted attack on the event in Garland, and the Charlie Hebdo instance along with others. Islam seeks to silence its critics. It has worked in helping to silence, or at least subdue, you because you in effect said … hey, we can’t let this type of show go on. It is by no means shouting “fire” in a theater … you have it exactly backwards. If we don’t resist the urge to self-censor, over time, Islam will prevail in its objective, especially if and as the demographics work more in their favor.

By way of background, Muhammad suffered from epilepsy (inherited from his mother Aminah) and was basically a psychotic mass killer. Think of Charles Manson, except with a very large army. It has always been a violent religion starting from its founding. Most Muslims today are peaceful (cause they got tired of all the fighting ) but the best estimates I've seen is anywhere between 10-20% support the Radical strain of Islam in various ways .. .financially, emotionally, or in some cases the guys who actually fight and shoot.

I salute the people who sponsored the event in Garland, and salute the Garland police force for taking care of business.