Via Breitbart:
A hijab-wearing contestant of the French version of the popular television programme The Voice stepped down Wednesday after facing calls to leave the programme after tweets surfaced of her calling the Nice attack of 2016 a government conspiracy and calling the French government terrorists.
Hijab-wearing 22-year-old Mennel Ibtissem inspired a flurry of headlines after her appearance on the reality programme earlier this month singing a version of the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah” in English and Arabic.
Now, after several tweets were unearthed showing Mennel’s sympathies for Islamic extremism and denial of the Nice attack, Ibtissem quit the programme Wednesday night, announcing her intention in an online video blog. Her decision came after several complaints to the broadcaster behind The Voice to drop her from competition, Le Parisien reports.
In August 2016, Ibtissem claimed that the French government were the “real terrorists” and other posts have shown her anti-Israel, pro-Palestine views.
One of the groups who protested to the continued inclusion of Mennel on the programme was Promenade des Anges: 14 July 2016, a Nice-based organisation supporting victims of the 2016 terror attack.
The group released a statement condemning the remarks saying, “it is unacceptable to question what we have experienced. We were terrified, our own bodies were affected and/or lost our loved ones.”