'Swifties for Palestine' Go SILENT After ISIS, Al Qaeda Threatens Concert

Justine Brooke Murray | August 9, 2024
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Gen Z “Swifties for Palestine” advocates just found out what “Globalize the Intifada” really means.

Three sold-out concerts for liberal pop icon Taylor Swift were canceled Wednesday, after two Islamic terrorists were reportedly caught plotting to blow up the stadium in a suicide attack during one of her performances.

The terrorists, who swore allegiance to both Al Qaeda and ISIS, planned to “kill as many people as possible” outside the venue for Swift's weekend long set in Vienna, according to the Associated Press. The foiled massacre was planned for either Thursday or Friday, claimed Austria’s Interior Minister, Gerhard Karner. Concert organizers expected at least 65,000 fans inside the stadium and 30,000 to congregate outside. 

The main culprit is a 19-year-old son of two ethnic Albanian migrants from Macedonia, according to both Karner and the head of Austria’s state police. After reportedly announcing last month that he was “planning something big,” police found bomb-making chemicals, explosives, and machetes in his home. His accomplice was a 17-year-old employee at the concert venue. 

One Swift fan account with over 85,000 followers on X alleges an even more insidious version of events, claiming the attackers were both security guards for the event, possessed chemical bombs, and planned to drive a car into 20,000 fans “before attacking with machetes and knives.” Their reporting has not been confirmed.

“We live in a time in which violent means are being used to attack our Western way of life,” Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer responded in a post to X. “Islamist terrorism threatens security and freedom in many Western countries. This is precisely why we will not give up our values such as freedom and democracy, but will defend them even more vehemently.” 

His message is a far cry from the rhetoric peddled by newly elected UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who gaslighted disgruntled Brits for voicing displeasure over a Welsh man of Rwandan heritage who allegedly stabbed three young girls to death at a recent “Taylor Swift-themed dance class.”

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In May, an internet mob of kool-aid drinking music fans got #SwiftiesForPalestine trending across X to pressure her into condemning Israel for defending themselves against the same ilk of Islamic fundamentalists. They didn’t seem to care that Hamas sexually assaulted and butchered hundreds of fellow music fans at an Israeli music festival on October 7, 2023. 

They seem to be silent today.

As Swift says, "I've never heard silence quite this loud."

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