Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any more ridiculous, comes a Polish magazine with a highly inflammatory front cover vilifying Islam.
The cover of this week’s edition of wSieci (the Network), a widespread politically conservative magazine, depicted a white woman being assaulted by three pairs of dark-skinned male hands, with the headline, ‘The Islamic Rape Of Europe’.
The blonde woman is draped in a European Union flag, with the male hands pulling her hair and looking as though they are trying to tear off the flag.
The magazine blurb promises “a report about what the media and Brussels elite are hiding from the citizens of the European Union”.
For those ignorant enough to bother reading the article, it makes reference of the rape and sexual assault of hundreds of women in Germany’s Cologne on New Year’s Eve, with author Aleksandra Rybińska writing, “The people of old Europe after the events of New Year’s Eve in Cologne painfully realised the problems arising from the massive influx of immigrants”.
“The first signs that things were going wrong, however, were there a lot earlier. They were still ignored or were minimised in significance in the name of tolerance and political correctness.”
Elsewhere in the mag, article headlines include, ‘Does Europe Want to Commit Suicide?’ and ‘The Hell of Europe’.
Twitter didn’t exactly take to the magazine cover.
“Islamic Rape of Europe”—Polish magazine #wSieci
Just change “Islamic” to “Jewish” and it’s Poland in the late 1930s pic.twitter.com/J2ua2TVHg9— Annia Ciezadlo (@annia) February 17, 2016
Appalling front cover by @Tygodnik_Sieci. Inflammatory and very offensive as though ‘Muslims’ cannot be trusted https://t.co/dygcbJWksc
— TellMAMAUK (@TellMamaUK) February 17, 2016
@TellMamaUK @Tygodnik_Sieci @astroehlein I wonder when the media will become accountable for misleading hate inciting pieces
— Shereen (@MalherbeGirl) February 17, 2016
“Islamic rape” is not a thing. Rapists rape, not Muslims Christians Jews. #wsieci – a worrying reminder of the past https://t.co/4ER2aDx7l9
— erica jane (@ericajanelee) February 18, 2016
Absolutely disgusting magazine cover by #wSieci How to demonise refugees taken straight from the Nazi playbook. https://t.co/SWvqUFWbl1
— A Regular Joe (@Joe_Irregular) February 17, 2016
