Muslim Fan: Jesse Hughes is ****ing Stupid to Blame Bataclan Massacre on Islam

I saw this letter from Ismael El Iraki in the Independent at lunchtime but couldn’t post immediately. But all afternoon I have been thinking about Islamic’s need for victimhood. And how even a fellow victim has to be accused of islamophobia if he refuses to submit to the narrative that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’. But now that I am home I see that James Delingpole has written in Breitbart, saying what I was thinking, although perhaps a little more forthrightly.

Ismael El Iraki was at the Bataclan club the night Muslim terrrorists slaughtered 90 rock music fans who were watching the Eagles of Death metal. He is a rock music fan. He says the only thing he loves more is his wife. But that isn’t true. Like with all Muslims Islam and Islamic supremacy must come first, last and everything.

His open letter was published on his facebook page and quickly taken up by the Independent and other newspapers. 

He says:

I just finished reading your tacky Taki interview and to tell you the truth, my heart is bleeding. (You will recall that the lead singer of the Eagles of Death Metal was less than flattering about Islam, having seen so many people,some of them personal friends slaughter before his eyes). 

I love your music, your concerts mostly (such fun, wild shows) and man, I never thought that you would become one of those spreaders of fear. Fox News, Trump, all those guys. You always felt like a maverick, a rebel: we now know that you are not. We (and by that I mean the rebels, the mavericks, the rock crowd) always loved and defended you because you were a lovable fool and kind of a dumb f***, like the Three Stooges or Tex Avery’s wolf. You now proved your stupidity to be f***ing dangerous.

I live and breathe rock ‘n’ roll, and I could not look more Muslim if I tried. But apparently, the big bad Muslim conspiracy missed me. Damn, they forgot to warn me. They also forgot to warn Djamila, and all the other Arabs who got shot and killed that very night. They forgot to warn my fellow Moroccan Amin, who was shot that very night. (But, on his own admision he looks like a Muslim, and he got out alive and pretty much unscathed …)

I will not dignify you by narrating how I behaved that night. I have and always will refuse to do that publicly: I believe that the people I helped that night did not care that I was an Arab, nor did I care which origin they where or which imaginary friend they bow to.

What pains me most is that you do not even realize that a huge number of us who managed to get out alive of this horrible ordeal owe our lives to a Muslim guy. His name is Didi and he opened the left front door most of us got out of. . . HE WENT BACK IN. He turned back, and headed back in to save more people. He opened the upstairs exit and let a number of people out through there.

He was a fucking hero….You, who are not a hero. . . your comments are not OK. How is insulting heroes OK?

You say: “Islam is the problem”. I say: “All you f***ing bigots and your fairytale s*** stories are the problem. Racism and refusal to recognize one another as complex (more complex than ethnicity or race can explain) human beings is the problem.

I hope you can realize how wrong that shit you spread is, hope you can see all the wrong that you are doing.

James Delingpole says: 

What is the correct response when you’re a rock star, nearly 90 of your fans have been murdered in front of your eyes by Jihadist terrorists, and you yourself have had to go to hospital to have removed from your face the embedded teeth and skull splinters of the girl just in front of you who had her head blown apart by a hollow-nosed bullet?

Well, thanks to the music press, the Guardian and the organisers of at least two rock festivals in France we know that the correct answer, the only answer, goes something like this:

“Islam is a religion of peace. That’s why I know in my heart that this atrocity had nothing to do with Islam. The fact that the gunmen were shouting Allahu Akhbar as they machinegunned the audience – in those moments when they weren’t pausing to torture the poor guys in wheelchairs or finish off the wounded – was entirely coincidental. Also, I would like to pay especial tribute to those Muslim members of the security staff who, instead of joining in with the killers, acted with amazing generosity by opening the exit doors so that some of the audience could get away…”

Unfortunately, Jesse Hughes of Eagles Of Death Metal didn’t give the correct answer regarding his experiences at the Bataclan massacre in Paris in November last year. He doesn’t want to prettify what happened; he does think it was caused by a clash between a kind of surrender-monkey Western liberalism and militant Islamic ideology.

If you haven’t read the interview in Taki Mag with Gavin McInnes that prompted this, you really must. It’s mainly an extremely graphic account of what happened that night at the Bataclan gig from the perspective of a guy standing on the stage.

The mainstream press – and the music press – had every opportunity to extract this information from Jesse Hughes. As he tells his interviewer, he’s not holding back because he finds the experience cathartic. But weirdly till this interview in a conservative journal, no one did: almost as if it didn’t fit in with the post-Paris narrative that ‘yes, it was awful, but let’s not dwell on it because we should move on.’

Hughes, clearly, doesn’t think we should move on. There are questions which remain unanswered – not least the role of the Muslim security staff, some of whom he says were clearly in on the plan (a claim Bataclan’s owners have furiously denounced). 

But his bigger beef is with the denialism, wishful thinking and kumbaya mentality that make the West so vulnerable to such attacks.

Amazingly – well, actually, entirely predictably – the author of that letter to the Guardian appears to be more upset by Hughes’s failure to mouth liberal pieties than he does by the fact that a group of his co-religionists thought it would be a good idea to murder 89 of the people next to him at a gig.

…that security guard: why haven’t we heard his story more? Well it’s because, as he admits in an interview with National Public Radio, he’s afraid that someone involved in the attack might come and bump him off. This would suggest that Hughes’s bleak analysis of the situation is closer to the ground truth than El Iraki’s fluffy ‘rock can heal the world’ idealism: that there really is a war going on here and that throwing up your hands and wishing all the nasty stuff would go away is not an option.

Sure it may make college-educated, safe-space-reared Guardian-reading types feel better about themselves by showing how much they disapprove of Jesse Hughes’s views on Islam. But since when did shooting the messenger solve a problem?

I have linked to the Independent as I found that first. The comments there show that the tide is turning.