In early 2016, a cover of the Polish magazine wSieci (“the Network”) showed a blonde white woman screaming in terror as dark-skinned male hands grabbed her body, hair, and the dress she wore, which seemed to be made from the flag of the European Union. The image was emblazoned with text reading, in Polish, “the Islamic rape of Europe.”
Read More“MTN” is the name of the largest telco operator in Africa. The company’s slogan, “everywhere you go,” was used as a code in South Sudan to allege that members of the Dinka tribe were encroaching on the lands of other ethnic groups.
Read MoreWhile delivering a sermon in the Taunggyi Township in the Shan State of Myanmar, Ashin Ka-U Nawbata, a Buddhist monk, taught his followers to fear their Muslim neighbors.
Read MoreIn late February 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenyan Member of Parliament (MP) Patrick Makau encouraged people to stone Chinese visitors to Kenya who, he said, were violating orders to quarantine.
Read MoreOver and over at political rallies, Donald Trump read the lyrics of a song which he turned into dangerous speech by giving it an entirely new meaning. “The Snake” describes a woman who rescues a half-frozen serpent, only to have it betray her kindness with a lethal bite. Trump frames it as a warning that foreigners pose a mortal threat to Americans.
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