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Heres what our drew griffin found. >> reporter: it was from the killers manifesto we learned of the link to the council of conservative citizens. classified as a hate group by the southern poverty law center the council can best be described as a pro white group interested in preserving the white european race. the united states government classifies it differently. how? as a civil rights organization and get this with that classification the group enjoys tax-exempt status. >> we have always enc...

Be held. >> theres no act of expression even if its an offensive expression. can justify an act of terrorism or an act of violence. and thats why im reluctant to offer -- render my own judgment or the judgment of the united states government about this act of expression. >> after its been identified by the law center as a hate group, and seems they organized this event to provoke a response are they responsible for what happened? >> theres no justification for this -- an act of violence and atte...

Isis on twitter. contradiction of the contest organizer. meanwhile the werent of the controversial contest is in hiding saying he is receiving numerous death threats and white house press secretary josh earnest had this exchange where he refused to say whether the events should have been held. >> the principals we have cited here is there is no active expression. even if its an offensive expression can justify an act of terrorism or even an act of violence and thats why im reluctant to offer ren...

Its the reward of violent intimidation. people are saying in face of violent intimidation, we have to surrender and censor ourselveses and subjugate ourselves to it. >> even "charlie hebdo" has come out, folks have said oh, were nothing like them because we criticize all religions. youre sort of a hate group in their opinion directed at one religion. they say not suggesting youre fair game but its incredible how virtually everyone has turned against your message no matter what you think of the m...

>> reporter: the movement, muslims say, against their religion. critics call geller a muslim basher and friend to white supremacists who provokes for a living and doesnt mince her believes on radical islam. >> we will not abridge our freedom so as not to offend savages. >> reporter: geller led the 2010 crusade against building an islamic center in downtown manhattan. >> we will prevail. >> reporter: the controversial ground zero mosque never opened. she and colleague robert spencer co-founded wh...

Gunmen dead. >> he did what he was trying to do. he did a very good job. and probably saved lives. >> inside, this is the moment hundreds of guests hear about the gunfire as you see on the events live stream. >> okay, shots just got fired. >> we dont know that for a fact. >> i think id better wrap it up. >> ten minutes later, a s.w.a.t. leader orders an evacuation. 1:30, the bomb squad blows up the cars trunk which had several suit cases but no bombs. the group holding the contest the american f...

Are heartbroken and had no idea of his plans. meantime the group behind the contest is the american freedom defense initiative, labeled a hate group by the southern poverty law center. many muslims consider images of the prophet to be blasphemy. they said an anti-isla ma phobia event was held there in january. >> in offensive speech need to protection. its not the 8th amendment, its the 1st amendment. it protects all speech. and most of all, political speech. who decides whats good and whats for...

inherently prone to terrorism and should be condemned wholesale. this is not someone who minces words. this is not someone who has a nuanced perspective on islam or its 1.6 billion practitioners. thats one of the reasons why the southern poverty law center and the anti-defamation league have both condemned her organization the american freedom defense initiative as a hate group. >> bigger picture, todd you wrote this whole book on islamaphobia here in america. what did you find? what did you...

That this center was there. have you spoken to members of the community? it sounded like a lot of folks at this event were from out of town. >> right. actually, almost everyone i talked to was from out of town. oklahoma, other areas of texas. and i think this event was in garland as a response to an event held in january called stand with the prophet that pamela geller protested. she held the event in garland specifically because of that prior event and not because of a connection to the garland...

About this shooting, regardless of how much one disagree with something that pamela geller says or her group supports, in no way says they deserve to be shot at or targeted as they were last night. >> i couldnt agree more. i think thats absolutely undeniably true. i think i as an individual and southern poverty law center as an institution are defenders of the first amendment. its possible to hold those two ideas in one set at the same time. the first amendment should be defended. free speech is...