Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/21/2016

Remarks by Jesse Hughes, the front man for the band “Eagles of Death Metal”, have caused several venues in France to cancel the group’s future gigs. Mr. Hughes said that he saw Muslims celebrating in the streets immediately after the attacks at the Bataclan last November, and also that he thought Muslims in the security staff at the show had facilitated the attacks. This was considered racist and unacceptable by some of the venues for the band’s upcoming gigs, which then cancelled the shows.

In other news, according to preliminary reports, it seems likely that an explosion on the right side of EgyptAir Flight 804 caused the plane to crash into the Mediterranean.…