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Ismael El Iraki

May 24 at 10:00am · Paris, France ·
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A LETTER TO JESSE HUGUES FROM A FELLOW BATACLAN SURVIVOR

Dear Jesse,

I just finished reading your tacky Taki interview and to tell you
the truth, my heart is bleeding. I postponed reading it, thinking:
" What's the news, can't be worse than the others, we're used to it".
It is worse, and there's no way in hell we will ever get used to this.

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 fuck, like the Three Stooges
or Tex Avery's wolf. You now proved your stupidity to be fucking
dangerous.

Your comments reopened a nasty wound. So you say the security crew was
in on it and was warning every Arab they saw. See, as you can see on
this picture some guy took at the scene a few minute before your show
began, I happen to be an Arab and to look very much like one. I got a
big black curly beard and the skin tone to match it. I also happen to
live and breathe rock n' roll. It is, my wife's love aside, the single
most important thing in my life. So of course, that warm November
night, I was among the crowd at the Bataclan. Wasn't gonna miss an
EODM concert, and it was only the first of eight rock shows I had
lined up that week.

As I said 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.
Apparently, a few weeks later, the also forgot to warn Leila, another
fellow Morrocan, who got killed in the Ouagadougou attack. Silly
international Muslim conspiracy. They really cannot do any job well.

I will not dignify you by narrating how I behaved that night. I have
and always will refuse to do that publicly: I do not believe that
another bloody Bataclan story could be useful to anyone. You can make
your own inquiries and I do not think that you will like what you will
discover, for it will certainly not fit your narrow minded, boxed-in
image of what a Muslim or an Arab (for apparently you ignore the
difference between those two words) can do. 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. We all
bleed red, brother. And enough about me.

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. This guy did something that neither you,
me, or anyone else I ever met would ever have done.

You know what he did, this Arab guy, this Muslim? He opened the left
front door, let a shitload of people out, and then, while he was safe
and sound in the street outside, 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. That guy, as I said, was
nothing like you. Or me.

He was a fucking hero. An unarmed, red-blooded, real-life fucking hero
that you just insulted with your racist, hateful comments. You, who
are not a hero. You who are, just like me, just a regular guy who
happened to be caught in an awful situation and did whatever he could
to get out of it and try to help some people around him. So no, your
comments are not OK. How is insulting heroes OK?

You say: "Islam is the problem". I say: "All you fucking bigots and
your fairytale shit 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. Reducing others to what you
think you know is the problem." You saw those guys the other night.
Those marble-eye, brainwashed, horrible assassin motherfuckers were
unable to even recognize a fellow human face. Dude, don't be like
that. Just don't. Don't imagine that you are facing that awful
fundamentalist deathwave alone. Because this is the world we live
in now, and we're all in this shit together. Muslims and Arabs are
caught up in it with you, they face dying a random, stupid death
like you.

Rock 'n' roll is love, man. LOVE. Look at yourself: you have become
a spreader of hate, brother. Try to be more in life like the persona
we all love when you are on stage. Try to spread the love. The real
love, the kind that sees right through people's beards and skin colors
and religious shit and garments, the kind that can unite not only a
concert crowd but hopefully a nation, a whole world. I hope you can
realize how wrong that shit you spread is, hope you can see all the
wrong that you are doing. "There's still time to change the road
you're on", brother. Zeppelin's words.

Just come back to the real spirit of rock 'n' roll, which is that
a good rock show should make you wanna fuck or fight. Not rally a
nasty conservative politician.

Pax,

Ismael El Iraki
French version here: http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/…/jesse-hughes
-temoignage-vict…

[Try telling that to the Donald and see how far you'll get. --Lee]

--Lee

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