It didn’t shock me one bit when I saw the guys dressed up as IS combatants. We are used to seeing crazy costumes related to current events at Alost. Groups of festival-goers always sport costumes based on the big media events of the previous year, so it was not at all surprising to see people dressed as jihadists.There is no doubt that what is happening with the IS group is very serious, but I think that it is important to be able to take a few steps back. You have to accept the world is as it is and, at the same time, find a way to be keep laughing [Editor’s note: One of the festival-goers dressed as an IS militant told RTL.be that he was wearing his costume to “make fun of all of the people going to Syria to fight.”]