Bataclan Survivor Pens Letter To Jesse Hughes

"Look at yourself: you have become a spreader of hate, brother."

An emotional letter from a fellow Bataclan survivor written to Eagles Of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes has gone viral online.

The letter was written by Ismael El Iraki, a fan who was there in the crowd when the shooting started. The message (initially written on Facebook) was prompted by a controversial interview granted by Jesse Hughes recently, in which he claimed French Muslims celebrated the massacre, and that security were somehow colluding with the terrorists.

“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.”

The writer takes issue with Jesse Hughes' belief that the terrorists colluded with security to warn Muslim concert goers. “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.”

At one point Ismael writes: “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.”

Check out the full letter HERE.

Jesse Hughes has yet to comment.

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