International media ascribes cancellation of pro-jihad rapper’s concert at jihad massacre site to “far-right”

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/international-media-ascribes-cancellation-of-pro-jihad-rappers-concert-at-jihad-massacre-site-to-far-right

Oct 15, 2018 9:17 am By Hugh Fitzgerald 8 Comments

The Muslim Arab rappeur Medine, famous for his “violent lyrics,” which are full of  pro-Islam and anti-white sentiments, has just been forced to cancel his two scheduled concerts at the Bataclan, the club where, in November 2015, Muslim terrorists murdered 90 people. When I googled the story, I was struck by the insistent appearance of one epithet:

French Far-Right Celebrates.
New York Times
French Muslim rapper cancels Bataclan shows after far-right protests
The Independent
Muslim rapper cancels Paris Bataclan concert after far-right protests
Reuters
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen welcomed the cancellation of rapper Medine’s concerts at the Bataclan, where 90 people died in an attack…

Far-right, far-right, far-right….I think the world’s media are trying to tell us something. But in fact, they are wrong. The most important opponents of Medine’s pro-Muslim concerts at Bataclan were the enraged families of those who were murdered there, families who called his possible appearance a “sacrilege.” People in Marine Le Pen’s party  participated in protests, and signed petitions, but contrary to the media with their unchanging epithet of “far-right,” the unifying theme of Le Pen’s party is nothing particularly far-right, unless “far-right” is to be the permanent epithet affixed to all those who are islamocritics. And many who had nothing to do with Marine Le Pen, such as the writer and journalist Eric Zemmour, were also against Medine’s appearance.

As for Medine himself, he has been described as “controversial” and “provocative,” as well as, more accurately, as an “Islamo-hooligan” who spouts “violent lyrics.” He claims to be not a Muslim propagandist, but just a misunderstood artist. But his first two albums were titled “Jihad” and “September 11.” His fans buy photographs of him wearing his favorite T-shirt, the one that reads “Jihad” along with a picture of a sword. “Controversial” and “provocative” indeed. One of his most famous songs is “Don’t Laik,” which is pronounced like the English “Don’t Like,” but here means “Don’t Laic,” that is, don’t observe the principle of laïcité, which refers to the secular ideology requiring the complete separation of religion and state. Medine doesn’t like that notion; he’s a Muslim who wants his religion to be very much involved in political matters. He repeatedly pours out his hatred for whites, calling they “porcs” (pigs), “pedophiles” (pedophiles), and “demons” (demons).
 His racism is apparently okay, however, because it is directed at whites, and they don’t deserve any better, especially if Muslims, a protected class all over the West, are making the charge. Medine likes to say that he is deliberately provocative in order to shatter stereotypes. What “stereotypes” are those? Would those “stereotypes” by any chance be those that describe him perfectly, a crowd-pleasing clown, menacing in his manner, denouncing non-Muslims, calling down “fatwas on the heads of these [secularist] idiots” and threatening them with death, flaunting on his clothing a sword and the word “Jihad”? Would that stereotype cover Medine’s song “Jihad,” in which he calls for the murder, by crucifixion, of all secularists? Medine is an appalling singer of excruciating and murderous rap, condemned forever to being  his own stereotype.

But what does the truth matter? How many of those who read the stories in the world’s media about Medine will learn about his lyrics, his calling down a fatwa on the heads of secularists, his demanding they be crucified (and with his impressionable fans, some of them just might take his words to heart)? Very few, for this kind of information you have to go to certain small websites in French. Few readers of the New York Times, or the Washington Post, or dozens of other major  news sites, will find out that he wears a T-shirt with a sword and the word “Jihad” on it. None will learn about his rants against white “pigs.”

Medine will not, fortunately, be singing at the Bataclan, the site of the worst Muslim murders in France. But he will sing elsewhere, calling for Jihad, demanding death for secularists, and damning all whites as pigs and pedophiles. Great stuff. Is there really no way — no laws on the books in France about inciting racial hatred? Doesn’t calling all white people pigs and pedophiles constitute inciting racial hatred? And what about Medine’s calling for “a fatwa on the heads” of secularists, and even for their “crucifixion” — is that not clear incitement to murder? The question is not why it was right to ban Medine from singing at the Bataclan, but why, given his lyrics and his total affect, he should be allowed to sing his malevolent and murderous songs anywhere.