French racists steal poster idea from Swiss racists
If you’re going to make a xenophobic poster, at least make it original: The Algerian government has formally protested to Paris about a poster which associates its flag with Islamisme, or radical forms of Islam. The poster shows France covered by an Algerian flag and a forest of mosque minarets. The slogan reads: “Non à ...
If you're going to make a xenophobic poster, at least make it original:
If you’re going to make a xenophobic poster, at least make it original:
The Algerian government has formally protested to Paris about a poster which associates its flag with Islamisme, or radical forms of Islam. The poster shows France covered by an Algerian flag and a forest of mosque minarets. The slogan reads: “Non à l’Islamisme”.
It closely resembles a poster published by a nationalist party in Switzerland
before a mosque-building referendum last November. The Swiss advertising agency that devised the original poster said it planned to sue Mr Le Pen’s party, the National Front, for plagiarism.
Joshua Keating is a former associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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