"terrifying" - bus seats mistaken for burqas by anti-immigrant radicals

[L. Coyote]

Last edited Wed Aug 2, 2017, 02:57 PM - Edit history (1)

Bus seats mistaken for burqas by members of anti-immigrant group

Comments posted on Norwegian ‘Fatherland first’ Facebook group call empty seats on Oslo bus ‘terrifying’
2 August 2017

A Norwegian anti-immigrant group has been roundly ridiculed after members mistook a photograph of six empty Oslo bus seats posted on its Facebook page for a group of women wearing burqas.

“Tragic” and “terrifying” were among the comments posted by members of the closed Fedrelandet viktigst, or “Fatherland first”, group beneath the photograph, according to screenshots on the Norwegian news website Nettavisen.

Other members of the 13,000-strong group wondered whether the non-existent passengers might be carrying bombs or weapons beneath their clothes. “This looks really scary,” wrote one. “Should be banned. You can’t tell who’s underneath. Could be terrorists.”

Further comments read: “Ghastly. This should never happen,” “Get them out of our country – frightening times we are living in,” and: “I thought it would be like this in the year 2050, but it is happening now,” according to thelocal.no.

The photograph was posted “for a joke” by the journalist Johan Slåttavik, who told Nettavisen he was “interested to see how people’s perceptions of an image are influenced by how others around them react. I ended up having a good laugh.”

It went viral in Norway after others shared screenshots of the group’s reactions. ...........

[Me.]

1. Empty Bus Seats Mistaken For Women Who Have No Rights!

[Initech]

2. And this is why white supremacists are idiots!

[L. Coyote]

5. Which truly needs to be pointedout to them. Thanks WWW.

[progressoid]

3. Oh god.

I know people here who would say the same thing.

[Iliyah]

4. Paranoia at it's worst

and extremely dangerous. Instead of going into the 21st Century with better understanding of all cultures, religion, faiths, compassion and love thy neighbor as thyself, we are "now" in stages where WW1 and WW2 happened.

SAD.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Life imitating internet memes.