Accusations of Racism
On the 12th of May, 2010, the main title of the weekly edition of the Weltwoche was : "Must Islam be Banned? - The religion of the muslims is not compatible with the Swiss Constitution."
The front cover of the Weltwoche of 5th of April 2012 published a photograph of a Roma child pointing a gun at a camera under the headline "The Roma are coming". The magazine came in for widespread criticism, particularly due to the alleged 'misappropriation' of a photograph of a Kosovan Roma child playing on a rubbish heap with a toy gun during the Kosovan war to suggest the danger of Roma children to Swiss society.
On the 26th of June, 2012, Die Weltwoche published an article which argued the genetic inferiority of the Irish people. The article lamented the spread of the Irish gene pool and falsely claimed that the Irish Government promotes pre-marital DNA testing in an effort to halt supposed widespread incest amongst the Irish people. It also claimed that the Irish had rat-like anatomic features.
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Famous quotes containing the words accusations and/or racism:
“This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“I don’t think America’s the center of the world anymore. I think African women will lead the way [in] ... women’s liberation ... The African woman, she’s got a country, she’s got the flag, she’s got her own army, got the navy. She doesn’t have a racism problem. She’s not afraid that if she speaks up, her man will say goodbye to her.”
—Faith Ringgold (b. 1934)