Poems and songs

“Remove the Muslims”: the deadly song of the New Zealand mass murderer

The music that New Zealand terrorist Branton Tarrant, known as the mosque killer, heard on his way to carry out his terrorist operation, was not just a random piece to accompany his path at the beginning of his mission, but rather a song that he chose carefully.

Remove Muslims

The song that the perpetrator of the terrorist attack was listening to is called “Serbia Strong” or “Remove Kebab”; It is a song made by three Bosnian Serb Army soldiers, one of whom was a singer, the other played the accordion, and the third played a wind instrument. The three produced this song with the aim of glorifying and paying patriotic tribute to former Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić, who was classified as a war criminal for the Bosnian war between 1992 and 1996, when he served as the first president of Republika Srpska, during which the famous Bosnian massacre took place. Where more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed and slaughtered by Bosnian Serb army forces on Karadžić’s orders, in addition to the killing of more than 2,000 Croatian civilians, the rape of more than 20,000 women, and the displacement of more than two million people. This massacre was described at the time as more horrific than the Holocaust. This video clip appeared on the Internet in 2008 when it was posted on YouTube from an anonymous account called “ARHIVISTA.” At that time, this song gained a bad reputation because of its inflammatory tone. Which prompted many to respond to the video clip with sarcastic video clips of it. But after the spread of this clip and the controversy that arose around it, Attention was drawn to another video song published in 2006 entitled “Dzamije lete” or “Mosques Flying” as a metaphor for bombing and burning mosques, the beginning of which begins with the sentence “Remove Muslims… Remove Muslims.” At the time, that song received nearly 600,000 views on YouTube. This video clip initially included a clip from the video song that went viral in 2008, “Serbia Strong,” and followers discovered that the two songs were related to each other and promoted the same idea and content in different forms. That video song, in which the three soldiers stand and sing; She remained the subject of ridicule for a long time on YouTube; More than 10 video clips were published mocking the song’s makers, and perhaps the most famous of them is the video clip that compares them to the original video song “We Speak no Americano” after they changed its name to “remove Americano.”

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