popular nightclub in Spain named “Mecca” has changed its name after its website was hacked into and a threat of violence was posted

popular nightclub in Spain named “Mecca” has changed its name after its website was hacked into and a threat of violence was posted, The Daily Mail reports. The club has carried the name since the 1980s and continued using it when it reopened this summer after a decade.

The threat warned that if the name was not changed there would be a “great war between Spain and the people of Islam.” According to Hudson-NY.org, an Internet video was posted by extremist Muslims calling for a boycott of Spain in retaliation and also advocated waging jihad against “those who blaspheme the name of Allah.”


The owner subsequently gave in after also receiving pressure from Muslims in Spain that said it was offensive but did not threaten violence. A press conference was held where the decision to change the name to “The Island” was announced, along with minor modifications to the club so it wouldn’t so closely resemble the minarets often seen on mosques.

Hudson-NY.org reports that Spain is increasingly a target for Islamic extremists. In 2004, 191 people were killed in simultaneous train bombings by Al-Qaeda. Since then, numerous terrorist plots have been uncovered.

“In September 2010, CNI, the Spanish intelligence agency, reported a jihadist ‘media offensive’ unlike any seen since the March 2004 attacks in Madrid… Prompted by an August 2010 border crisis between Spain and Morocco that involves Spain’s two North African enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, jihadists are now calling for a ‘crusade’ to recover the two cities,” the website reports.

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