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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 12:42 AM Jan 2018

German AfD MP under fire for anti-Muslim new year tweets

Source: BBC

German AfD MP under fire for anti-Muslim new year tweets

2 January 2018

A German politician is facing a police investigation over inflammatory comments made on New Year's Eve.

Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of Germany's far-right AfD party, had her Twitter account suspended on Monday following anti-Muslim remarks.

She accused Cologne police of appeasing "barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men" after they tweeted a new year message in Arabic.

Police are deciding whether she should be charged with incitement to hatred.

The police force tweeted its message in a number of languages, including English and French as well as Arabic and German.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42537656







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German AfD MP under fire for anti-Muslim new year tweets (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2018 OP
Incitement to hatred of a identifiable group should be a crime everywhere. Germany should know. Fred Sanders Jan 2018 #1
You say that NewDem17 Jan 2018 #2

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. Incitement to hatred of a identifiable group should be a crime everywhere. Germany should know.
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 12:46 AM
Jan 2018

Would shut down the entire right wing hate industry in America and the incitement of hatred towards Muslims and and nonconforming media now begins with its head of state. Astonishing.

 

NewDem17

(51 posts)
2. You say that
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 01:13 PM
Jan 2018

But remember who's in office. I'm sure Drumpf would love to put anyone criticising him in prison for hate speech.

No thank you I'll take freedom of speech warts and all. Speech we don't like should always be protected, and hate speech should be legal, because all it takes is the wrong side to decide things we say are hate speech.

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