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Polish magazine's 'Islamic rape of Europe' cover sparks outrage
Source: The Guardian
Polish magazine's 'Islamic rape of Europe' cover sparks outrage
Some Twitter users compare image in wSieci, for article referring to Cologne sex assaults,
to Nazi propaganda
Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Thursday 18 February 2016 18.12 GMT
A Polish magazine has published a highly inflammatory front cover showing a white woman being assaulted by three pairs of dark-skinned male hands under the headline “The Islamic rape of Europe”.
The cover of this week’s edition of wSieci (the Network), a mass-market politically conservative magazine, triggered outraged responses on social media. Some Twitter users compared the image to Nazi propaganda.
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Some Twitter users compare image in wSieci, for article referring to Cologne sex assaults,
to Nazi propaganda
Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Thursday 18 February 2016 18.12 GMT
A Polish magazine has published a highly inflammatory front cover showing a white woman being assaulted by three pairs of dark-skinned male hands under the headline “The Islamic rape of Europe”.
The cover of this week’s edition of wSieci (the Network), a mass-market politically conservative magazine, triggered outraged responses on social media. Some Twitter users compared the image to Nazi propaganda.
TellMAMAUK ? @TellMamaUK
Appalling front cover by @Tygodnik_Sieci. Inflammatory and very offensive as though 'Muslims' cannot be trusted https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/699932597716152320 …
8:28 AM - 17 Feb 2016
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Annia Ciezadlo @annia
"Islamic Rape of Europe"—Polish magazine #wSieci
Just change "Islamic" to "Jewish" and it's Poland in the late 1930s
10:16 AM - 17 Feb 2016
Appalling front cover by @Tygodnik_Sieci. Inflammatory and very offensive as though 'Muslims' cannot be trusted https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/699932597716152320 …
8:28 AM - 17 Feb 2016
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Annia Ciezadlo @annia
"Islamic Rape of Europe"—Polish magazine #wSieci
Just change "Islamic" to "Jewish" and it's Poland in the late 1930s
10:16 AM - 17 Feb 2016
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/polish-magazines-islamic-of-europe-cover-sparks-outrage