Partygoers returned to Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Thursday, determined to celebrate and to “spite” the terrorist influencers behind the man who police say killed 14 revelers early New Year’s Day, the New York Post reported.

Once law enforcement reopened the stretch where Shamsud-Din Jabbar barreled through the street packed with people, injuring dozens, revelers came back to pick up where they left off in defiance of the Islamic State, Jabbar, and anyone else who would bring hate and harm.

“The big reason why we came is to spite them,” Mark Beaden told the Post. “The hell with ISIS.”

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