French Pro-US Festival Canceled After 'Al Qaeda' Threats

Little Green Footballs ^ | May 20, 2007

[Hadean]

A festival in France dedicated to American music and culture (I know, I was surprised too) has been called off, after organizers received threats “mentioning Al Qaeda.”

A Paris festival celebrating US music and culture has been called off following a series of anti-American threats, organisers said on Sunday.

Called “Three Days in America”, the festival featuring country and gospel concerts, line-dancing, sales of US paraphernalia and a tribute to Elvis Presley was to take place from May 26 to 28 in Saint Cloud, southwest of Paris.

Organisers issued a statement saying they were forced to postpone the event following “persistent pressure and threats of an anti-American nature”.

“At first we thought it was a joke when we received a letter with a mixture of threats, mentioning Al-Qaeda and full of spelling mistakes,” said Chantal Tenot, the festival’s press officer. But after several threatening phone calls the organisers decided Friday to file a police complaint and call off the event.

These folks deserve a lot of credit for organizing such a festival in the first place, and it would be sadly ironic if the Eurojihadis forced them to ... uh ... surrender.

[Ronin]

Why am I not surprised?

[Condor 63]

If Islam is anti-Elvis then that is all I need to know....

[SittinYonder]

“We are the last best hope of Western civilization. And so all of the theories that go behind our activities subsequent to these nuclear attacks going off in the United States, they go out the window because when -- when we go under, Western civilization goes under.”
- Tom Tancredo

[Mercat]

My son is performing in Germany this summer at a festival which features “alternative” music much of which from US. sigh.

[RJL]

A couple phone calls and France surrenders.

Exactly the support that anyone can expect from France.

[norton]

"A festival in France dedicated to American music and culture...has been called off, after organizers received threats “mentioning Al Qaeda.”

Jerry Lewis is deeply saddened.

[I see my hands]

Jiheri al-Ewis

[dayglored]

> ... Called “Three Days in America”, the festival ...

"Two Weeks in Spain"?? (Gentle Giant, for those not alive 35 years ago.)

[Redbob]

Line-dancing and a tribute to Elvis Presley?

I’d a called it off myself!

[PizzaDriver]

My Dream...Those fanatics, that stopped the Saint Cloud, France festivities, will misaddress their next Demand. They will TELL Saint Cloud, Minnesota to hold a Wahabist Festival.

[drzz]

It was the ONLY manifestation in Europe relating to the sole American culture. France is falling apart.

[drzz]

The festival has been postponed to September after having received "anti-american" threats. The festival staff issued a statement saying "for security reasons, the festival will open in September if possible." IF POSSIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! The statement concludes : "we do not disarm". Europe is IN A CIVIL WAR !!!!!!!!

[drzz]

The festival calls itself : “the only festival of the American dream in Europe.”

Please, send this article to Rush and other conservative media.

Help the pro-US french. They need your help.