Approximately twenty minutes before a shooting at an event to promote free speech in Garland, Texas, which resulted in an injured officer and two dead suspects, a radical jihadist account on Twitter posted that a person was with another individual and insinuated that he was planning to sacrifice his life to Islam’s “Allah,” using the hashtag #texasattack.
The bro with me and myself have given bay’ah to Amirul Mu’mineen. May Allah accept us as mujahideen. Make dua #texasattack
— Shariah is Light (@atawaakul) May 3, 2015
The Twitter account of the individual in question, @atawaakul, sports the username, “Shariah Is Life,” and has expressed many pro-Islamic State sentiments on its timeline. A photo of Anwar Al Awlaki, the deceased Al Qaeda master recruiter, is displayed as the Twitter user’s profile picture. On April 23, the Twitter user linked to a Breitbart News article written by Pamela Geller, who organized the “Draw Muhammad Contest” in Garland. Texas.
When will they ever learn? They are planning on selecting the best picture drawn of Rasulullah (saws) in texas. http://t.co/pOVPMAHHiY — Shariah is Light (@atawaakul) April 23, 2015
Rober Spencer, who runs the website Jihad Watch and helped organize the event, wrote on Twitter that he had received threats from pro-ISIS accounts prior to the shooting.
@Gareth_Tigre @mrjammyjamjar1 they are tweeting that they did it, and we got threats beforehand
— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) May 4, 2015
It appears as if the user had previous run-ins with the law, according to the Twitter account in question.
@dawlah104 @_Bint_AlTurki when they come to your home and take you to their prisons they humiliate you. — Shariah is Light (@atawaakul) April 30, 2015
@_Bint_AlTurki @dawlah104 When I got arrested in 2010 I had to hear an agent say while on her cell phone “I made my first arrest”
— Shariah is Light (@atawaakul) April 30, 2015
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