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Texas: Nazi jazz musician plans “Jazz Jihad”

Feb 18, 2014 7:10 am By Robert Spencer

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Jazz guitarist Trevor LaBonte’s Facebook page is interesting for its open support of Hitler and jihad terror groups such as Hizballah, combined with proclamations that “Islam is a Religion of Peace.” The close kinship between Islamic supremacism and Nazism has been noted many times, but rarely has it been illustrated so nakedly and enthusiastically. LaBonte, in the first place, says (above) that he works at “Desinfektor Korps,” which sounds like a Nazi genocide reference, and openly loves Hitler (click on illustrations to enlarge them):

TrevorLaBonte2LaBonte also thinks that Islam is The Religion of Peace:

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Among his Facebook Friends is a hard-Left “journalist” who regularly cheerleads for the “Palestinian” jihad, Richard Silverstein, another “self-hating Jew” like LaBonte’s fellow Nazi musician Gilad Atzmon:

TrevorLaBonte4In the same vein, LaBonte likes the French Nazi “comedian” Dieudonne, as well as a Facebook page entitled “Al Hamdulillah kein Kafir”: “Thank Allah No Infidels.”

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LaBonte also loves “Palestine,” Hizballah and the Syrian jihad, as well as Nazi-style anti-Semitic imagery:

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LaBonte also belongs to a Facebook group called “Syrian Perspective” that features a photo of Boston Marathon jihad murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is depicted in a favorable context:

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“Anti-Semitic jazz musicians stir uproar,” by Brian Chasnoff for the San Antonio Express-News, February 17 (thanks to Bill):

SAN ANTONIO — Kory Cook, music director at KRTU-FM Jazz for San Antonio, said the radio station at Trinity University just “dodged a bullet,” but it’s probably more accurate to say it dodged a “quenelle.”

The hand gesture, widely seen as a reverse Nazi salute, is familiar to many Spurs fans as something guard Tony Parker flashed in a photo three years ago alongside the French anti-Semite Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala.

(Parker recently apologized for the “misunderstanding” after the photograph surfaced.)

For an unapologetic posting of Dieudonné with the caption: “Révolution de la quenelle!,” see the Facebook profile picture of Trevor LaBonte, an Austin guitarist who has played in San Antonio with the King William Jazz Collective. (The collective’s founder, Bill King, fired LaBonte on Monday.)

Recently, LaBonte asked Cook at KRTU to help him find a venue for a show dubbed “Jazz Jihad!”

It features Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist who calls himself a “proud self-hating Jew”; LaBonte’s jazz trio; and Mark Dankof, a local “anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Cook connected LaBonte with Ray Palmer, owner of High Wire Arts on West Josephine. Palmer agreed to host the show, and LaBonte advertised it on Facebook as “sponsored by KRTU.”

Local musicians caught wind; an uproar ensued. JJ Lopez, general manager at KRTU, sent an email to Trinity staff on Saturday clarifying the situation.

“We are not supporting this event,” Lopez wrote. “KRTU’s inclusion on the flyer was not approved by station management. I contacted the lead musician and had our name removed, effective immediately.”…

“Hate” is one way to describe the views of LaBonte, which include a defense of Adolf Hitler. In December, on Facebook, LaBonte wrote, “If Hitler was an evil dictator, then why did he have broad public support?”

This is extreme stuff, and LaBonte doubled down on Monday.

“Jews were heavily involved in communism and were targeting Europe to communize it,” he told me. “Hitler was not trying to take over the world. Hitler was trying to protect it from communism, which was trying to take over the world…. It was planned by Jews.”

LaBonte said speakers at the show “were going to talk about some of these things.”

I even received a surprise call from Atzmon, who defended LaBonte’s views (“Everything he told you so far is partially correct as we know”) and railed against the cancellation of his show — in a notably anti-Semitic manner.

“I’m offended,” Atzmon said. “I write about Jewish political power, and here it comes.”

I mentioned that his views offend some people.

“People can be offended by a lot of things,” he said. “But as far as I’m aware, in this country, we have the First Amendment, which allows me theoretically to express my thoughts.”

Another freedom implicit in the First Amendment is that of association, and the saga of “Jazz Jihad!” shows that this freedom entails a responsibility, sometimes, to disassociate.

Faced with the prospect of his band appearing in this column, King fired LaBonte: “I don’t want to be associated with his beliefs.”

Embarrassed by the photograph with Dieudonné, Parker publicly apologized.

And both Cook and Palmer backed out of “Jazz Jihad!,” which LaBonte is planning at another, undisclosed local venue. (A second show is scheduled at Ovations Night Club in Houston.)…

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  1. Salah says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 9:48 am

    Jazz Jihad? Music and Islam don’t mix, otherwise…

    Muhammad said:
    “Muslims who will consider the use of musical instruments, as lawful, will be crushed by mountains. The rest of them will be transformed into monkeys and pigs.” (Bukhari 7.69.494)

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/09/stoned-by-monkeys.html

    • Clare says

      Feb 18, 2014 at 10:11 pm

      And in ‘don’t mess with me’ Texas as well. This virus is everywhere.

  2. eib says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 9:56 am

    Jazz???
    Haram, haram, haram.

  3. Wellington says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    Hitler was not trying to take over the world? What rubbish. Hitler envisioned five great powers—–Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and America. Eventually it would be reduced to two—Germany and America—and Germany would defeat America and then be supreme throughout the world, though this would occur, according to Hitler, after his death. Sounds like world domination to me, very similar to the goals of that religion that begins with “I.”

  4. Edward Devotion says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    It was not Jewish power that rose, but people power that repudiate these hatemongers.

  5. Jazzy says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    Rather ironic that a jazz musician would admire Hitler because Hitler despised jazz.

    • Jimbo says

      Feb 18, 2014 at 2:40 pm

      He must be a self-hating jazz musician.

  6. voegelinian says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    LaBonte’s statements about Hitler should be in the D section of the dictionary alongside LaBonte’s photo, to feature the definition of Disingenuous. He’s not quite ready to be fully frank about why he supports Hitler, so he has to engage in these roundabout maneuvers which many other Judeaophobes attempt — particularly when they are put on the defensive in a sociopolitical context unfavorable to their views (e.g. — to pluck just one example from a Stahlhelm which could be adduced — David Irving).

    It’s a maneuver roughly analogous to those Leftists and Muslims who simultaneously deny that 911 was perpetrated by Muslims, and are thrilled by it as an Islamic attack.

  7. voegelinian says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    “Trevor LaBonte”, eh. As Arsenio Hall once said (to paraphrase from memory) on his late night show when introducing the white jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson: “Damn! What’s a white dude doing with a black name like that…!?” But I digress…

    It features Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist who calls himself a “proud self-hating Jew”…

    Actually, Jews aren’t the only ones to include self-hating members: in fact, probably the majority of Westerners are self-hating Westerners; and among that broad group overall, one may discern subgroups — self-hating whites, self-hating Americans, self-hating Brits, self-hating French (think Algeria), self-hating Swedes, self-hating Norwegians, self-hating Germans and Austrians, self-hating Catholics, self-hating Christians, self-hating men (vis-a-vis women), self-hating Conservatives (the ones who pull down their pants so that their PC MC Masters may have their way with them); etc. ad Islamonauseam.

  8. nacazo says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    The Western civilization suffers a massive case of Stockholm syndrome. It has been the victim of Jihad since the 800 hundreds.

  9. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 5:09 pm

    Nazism and islam, two explicitly Jew hating, totalitarian, fascist ideologies. Who ever thought they would ever find common ground, in death, persecution and misery.

  10. Truthiocity says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    Anyone from Houston? We should find out who plays with this pig and what venues allow him to perform. Then publicly tarnish their names. Perferably in the local and national press.

    For one thing he is a Nazi who plays jazz. A jazz musician who would have put Django Reinhardt into the gas chambers.

    And we know what the Nazis did to Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies and Slavs. What do you think they would have done to black people?

    The Nazis employed SLAVE LABOR.

    SLAVES!!!

    This turd is an apologist for SLAVERY!!!!

    Where is he performing and who is he performing with?

    Ovations Night Club in Houston

  11. Seth Goyman says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 2:03 am

    Why can’t a man voice his opinion without such an uproar? From what I read, his fellow musician is a jew? A so-called “Nazi” would not even attempt to share the stage with a supposed “chosen one”. There were over 150,000 jews who served in the Third Reich and many attained high levels of rank and leadership responsibilities. It is not “anti-semitic” to question the history, the Truth, or even what jazz lick you are going to play. Yiddish is not a Semitic language, therefore making the whole “anti-semitic” argument null and void. There were jews who died in interment camps; but it was from Typhus, starvation(due to the ALLIED bombings of the supply lines containing food and medicine), and yes some were shot for TREASON. The gas chambers have never been proven and the “Six Million” myth can not compete with 66 million Christians(1917-1933), 10 Million Ukrainians(1932-1933), and 7 million Germans (1945-1949)who were brutally butchered , raped, and murdered. Dresden was the real holocaust(burnt offering) where up to 500,000 innocent civilians perished under strategic bombing raids. If the numbers make you mad, just think of the agenda Hitler was fighting to keep out of Germany. Communist Bolshevik jewry. Welcome to the TRUTH!

    • Lennox says

      Apr 8, 2014 at 4:59 pm

      “A so-called “Nazi” would not even attempt to share the stage with a supposed “chosen one”. There were over 150,000 jews who served in the Third Reich and many attained high levels of rank and leadership responsibilities.”

      You’re hilarious…from your name to your astonishing ignorance of history. But I love nothing more in your post than these two sentences coupled together. Your apparent (and staggering) intellectual inferiority nullifies the rest of your argument. No rebuttal needed.

      • Seth Goyman says

        Apr 27, 2014 at 3:41 pm

        “intellectual inferiority” -Is this because I can source my information from academic institutes instead of hearsay testimony?
        http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righit.html

  12. RT says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 6:53 am

    Nice try Sethdulla, Too bad for you that the nazi’ kept detailed accurate records of all their salve/death camps for the jews etc. Even had a mufti to help him and a whole arab brigade to kill more jews. Your a tool and troll . That the TRUTH!

  13. Wellington says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 10:58 am

    Seth Goyman: You live in a fantasy world. To assert, as you did, that some 150,000 Jews served in the Third Reich and that many “attained high levels of rank and leadership responsibilities” is a flat out lie. Jews very shorlty after Hitler came to power in 1933 were fobidden to hold any civilian government posts whatsoever. Indeed, they were forced into certain German metropolitan areas and forbidden to even live in much of Germany or greatly encouraged to emigrate from Germany. These formed the first two of the five “solutions” of the Judenfrage (Jewish Question), which were followed, in order, by ghettoization once Poland was invaded, the Einsatzgruppen (machine gun squads) once the USSR was invaded and, finally, the fifth solution, which were the death camps, the first of which opened at Chelmno in December of 1941.

    As for your contention that some six million Jews did not die in the death camps at the hands of the Nazis at Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, Maly Trostenets, Birkenau (Auschwitz) and standard concentration camps, such an assertion runs completely contrary to the tens of thousands of eyewitnesses, both Jews and non-Jews, who testified, often in great detail, to what the Nazis did to the Jews they rounded up. The gas ovens and material evidence were extensive. The Holocaust is just about the most documented major crime in all of history. To deny it is vile and stupid. General Eisenhower was so sickened by what he saw that he gave special leave to thousands of American soldiers so that they too could see for themselves what had happened and it is THE reason why he refused to return any military salute to any German officer at the surrender ceremony in early May of 1945.

    Your contentions are ludicrous and your intentions malevolent. Go away, oh ignorant one.

  14. Ray says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 11:41 am

    Great info, Wellington. So readily available to everyone, but some are blind to the truth, either willingly or duped by the father of liars.

  15. gravenimage says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 6:06 pm

    Texas: Nazi jazz musician plans “Jazz Jihad”
    …………………………………

    As others have already pointed out, this is odd, given the hatred of both the Nazis and islam for Jazz.

    More:

    Jazz guitarist Trevor LaBonte’s Facebook page is interesting for its open support of Hitler and jihad terror groups such as Hizballah, combined with proclamations that “Islam is a Religion of Peace.” The close kinship between Islamic supremacism and Nazism has been noted many times, but rarely has it been illustrated so nakedly and enthusiastically.
    …………………………………

    Yes—*nothing* odd here. Hitler is one of the few Infidels that Muslims tend to admire, and Hitler returned the favor in considering Islam a warrior’s creed.

    And both are violent, martial, antisemitic, and tyrannical creeds.

    More:

    LaBonte, in the first place, says (above) that he works at “Desinfektor Korps,” which sounds like a Nazi genocide reference, and openly loves Hitler…
    …………………………………

    Yes—who is planning on “disinfecting” from society? My guess would be the Joooooos…

    More:

    LaBonte also thinks that Islam is The Religion of Peace…
    …………………………………

    Uh…right. Because everyone who admires Hitler and Hamas is interested in “peace”…

    Clearly, LaBonte is no naîve but well-meaning Infidel who actually believes that Islam is peaceful.

    More:

    It features Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist who calls himself a “proud self-hating Jew”…
    …………………………………

    Another oxymoron—and a very disturbing one…

    More:

    “Hate” is one way to describe the views of LaBonte, which include a defense of Adolf Hitler. In December, on Facebook, LaBonte wrote, “If Hitler was an evil dictator, then why did he have broad public support?”
    …………………………………

    Flabbergasting. As though popularity were proof of morality—especially in places like Dar-al-Islam, where the populace has been steeped in the ugly creed of Islam for hundreds of years.

    More:

    “Jews were heavily involved in communism and were targeting Europe to communize it,” he told me. “Hitler was not trying to take over the world. Hitler was trying to protect it from communism, which was trying to take over the world…. It was planned by Jews.”
    …………………………………

    What utter crap. Sure, Hitler hated the Communists—because he saw them as rivals to power. And never mind that despite the fact that some Jews did support Communism early on, that Soviet Communism was also virulently antisemitic, if marginally less genocidal than Fascism.

    And Hitler made his plans for conquest *abundantly* clear from the time of Mein Kampf.

    More:

    “People can be offended by a lot of things,” he said. “But as far as I’m aware, in this country, we have the First Amendment, which allows me theoretically to express my thoughts.”
    …………………………………

    Very common misunderstanding of the First Amendment. While this gives you the freedom to express your thoughts, it *does not* force anyone to give any person a forum to express said thoughts.

    More:

    Another freedom implicit in the First Amendment is that of association, and the saga of “Jazz Jihad!” shows that this freedom entails a responsibility, sometimes, to disassociate.

    Faced with the prospect of his band appearing in this column, King fired LaBonte: “I don’t want to be associated with his beliefs.”
    …………………………………

    *Exactly*. One is also free here to *express opposition to Fascism*—thank God.

  16. gravenimage says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 6:47 pm

    The ludicrously self-styled “Seth Goyman” wrote:

    Why can’t a man voice his opinion without such an uproar?
    ………………………………………..

    Why the hell should he? We have the right—and, really, the moral responsibility—to counter this viciousness. That is *also* what freedom of speech is about.

    More:

    From what I read, his fellow musician is a jew? A so-called “Nazi” would not even attempt to share the stage with a supposed “chosen one”.
    ………………………………………..

    This attempt to cast doubt does not even make any sense—are you claiming that LeBonte is for some reason lying about his support for Nazis? This isn’t something someone has accused LeBonte of—it is something he himself has proudly proclaimed.

    More:

    There were over 150,000 jews who served in the Third Reich and many attained high levels of rank and leadership responsibilities. It is not “anti-semitic” to question the history…
    ………………………………………..

    The usual from Nazi apologists. A) the Holocaust was not really so bad; and B) they should have finished the job.

    Sickening, but hardly surprising. *Ugh*.

  17. Adam Zeger says

    Feb 21, 2014 at 10:38 pm

    The terrorist sympathizers/neo nazis will be at Ovations Night Club in the Rice Village (Houston Tx.) on tuesday at 6pm. They tricked the owner into thinking that the event would be an innocent jazz concert with a silly name. The check was cashed and there is nothing the owner can do. Anybody who wants to protest the nazi leaders and anybody who paid to hear the teachings of Adolf Hitler can meet me there at 6pm.

  18. Barbara says

    Mar 5, 2014 at 2:41 am

    It is truly dismaying to read the hatred and the ignorance of 99.9% of these Comments. Amazing how the mob mentality rules when someone might look at things a tad differently from the rest. I thought America entertained the concept of “freedom of thought” but it seems you are little better capable of this than most Canadians. There is so much confusion and misrepresentation above from the readers that one cannot even find a place to start! The louder you all screech, the more I wonder why you fear the concepts Mr. LaBonte espouses with such abject terror.

  19. L R says

    Mar 5, 2014 at 8:30 pm

    http://youtu.be/w9UxWzUumUI

  20. LR says

    Mar 5, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    http://youtu.be/FjAQOIIXmDU

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