Polish magazine’s ‘Islamic rape of Europe’ cover is compared to fascist propaganda

A right-wing Polish magazine cover emblazoned with the headline “The Islamic rape of Europe” has triggered a storm of criticism, with some comparing it to World War II fascist propaganda.

The cover of the news weekly w Sieci (In the net) showed a posed photo of a blue-eyed blonde woman, wrapped in an EU flag, screaming as she is groped by dark-skinned hairy-armed men.

The magazine said the cover referred to a rash of sexual assaults against hundreds of women, allegedly by men of North African and Arab origin, during New Year’s Eve celebrations in the German city of Cologne.

But the publication drew fierce criticism on Twitter, with one user comparing it to what they described as a World War II-era Italian fascist propaganda poster vilifying Africans.

Another Twitter user said the “sick cover” was fear-mongering.

“‘Islamic rape of Europe’, screams Polish magazine. They obviously forget Nazi depictions of Poles in the 1930s,” said one Twitter user.

An editorial in the magazine, entitled “Hell Europe”, inveighed against a culture of “tolerance and political correctness” that supposedly led to the grim scenes on New Year’s Eve in Cologne.