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The irony was off the charts last Friday when an Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi from Syria, Issa al-Hasan, murdered three people and injured many more in an attack at the “Festival of Diversity” in Solingen, Germany. This attack was a vivid and painful indictment of the left’s idol of “diversity,” but it was much more along with that: it was a grim reminder of the fact that as Islamic jihad becomes an ever more common feature of life in the West, music festivals are favorite targets.
The Associated Press reported Saturday that Solingen’s “‘Festival of Diversity,’ marking the city’s 650th anniversary, began Friday and was supposed to run through Sunday, with several stages in central streets offering attractions such as live music, cabaret and acrobatics.” Al-Hasan explained that he was a “soldier of the Islamic State” who had carried out the attack in order “to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.” He added that he had chosen the Festival of Diversity as his target because he wanted to kill a “group of Christians” and was apparently unaware that only the most watered-down type of Christians would be attending such an event.
It was also significant that the Festival of Diversity included live music. Jihadis have been attacking music events for years. On Nov. 13, 2015, in Paris, Islamic jihadis carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the city, murdering 130 people. Ninety of them were killed inside the Bataclan concert hall, where a band called Eagles of Death Metal was playing a concert before 1,500 people.
One of the jihadis, Salah Abdeslam, asserted that the massacre was revenge for French military actions against jihadis in Iraq and Syria. “We fought France, we attacked France, we targeted the civilian population. It was nothing personal against them,” he said. “I know my statement may be shocking, but it is not to dig the knife deeper in the wound but to be sincere towards those who are suffering immeasurable grief.”
Then on May 22, 2017, another jihad mass murderer killed 22 people and injured 59 at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. The perpetrator was a man named Salman Ramadan Abedi, a man whom friends described as a “devout” Muslim who had memorized the entire Qur’an. He was known to British authorities as a terror threat and had been in touch with a recruiter for ISIS.
Islamic jihadis again struck a music event in Russia on March 22, 2024, screaming “Allahu akbar” as they murdered 145 people at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, where a rock band called Picnic was performing.
The most obvious reason why Islamic jihadis strike musical performances is because large crowds attending them, making them perfect sites for a mass casualty event. But Islam’s antipathy to music should not be overlooked as a contributing factor. The Islamic hatred of music is largely unknown in the West but shows up in news from the Islamic world now and then.
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Walter Sieruk says
There is no place for music dancing happiness fun or humor in Islam.
For example , Ayatollah Khomeini had declared “The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam . There can be no…joy in whatever is serious.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 348.
Walter Sieruk says
History has a tendency to repeat itself , as seen in the following examples.
First, there was that horrendously evil and murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester, England on May, 22, 2017 in which 22 people had been murdered and many more severely injured, most of the victims had been young girls and young women.
Then on October, there was those horrific murders by the jihadists of Hamas at a music festival in the State of Israel on October 7, 2023 in which 260 young people had been viciously murdered by those jihadists, who also committed many other many other Islamic atrocities.
Now just this year on March 22,th. on the outskirts of Moscow at another music concert there were more jihadists shootings and mass murders in which 137 people had killed by Muslim terrorists of ISIS in their jihad and at least 145 more people had been harmed.
Islam which its jihadists hates music and it also hates people. It hates them to death.
40 rounds says
Music, dogs, pork, but pornography and sex with little boys and girls and murder are just fine(oh, and drugs and alcohol (Allah forgives for these)
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You forgot the October 7th massacre. While garden variety Judeophobia may have been the main cause, don’t overlook that there too, they were attacking a music festival which Israeli peaceniks attended
Tony Rice says
What a strange religion Islam is, doesn’t allow music but does cross gendering in clothing by men. We now learn Muhammad had to dress as a woman in order to hear the words of Allah, albeit via the Angel Gabrielle . I wonder what that tells us about Allah himself?