Spot the difference time
Here's one of the entirely uninflammatory posters which was used by the Swiss campaign against minarets to encourage voters to preserve their chocolate-box architecture and had nothing to do with Islam or racism at all:
It seems that the not-at-all-racist BNP have for some reason adopted the poster design for themselves. I'm not sure why they would want to have anything to do with a nice campaign about preserving architectural standards which isn't anything to do with racism or hatred of minorities, but there you go. Anyway, here's their effort:
Strange how they were so quick and so keen to adopt the imagery, if the anti-minaret campaign was nothing to do with racism or bigotry, but there you go.
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November 30th, 2009 - 21:18
And they've fucked up the perspective too, (British) fascists can't use photoshop properly apparently.
November 30th, 2009 - 22:09
I've repeatedly been left with the impression that there isn't a racist professional graphic designer or video editor in the country- BNP posters and videos always seem to utter crap from a design perspective.
This rather cheers me.
December 1st, 2009 - 00:40
That's amusing. I travel to Turkey quite a lot and have only ever seen one woman in a burqa. I certainly do not think 'Muslims!' when I walk down a street there. Do the BNP not realise that it is a secular country? Gosh their idiocy astounds me.
December 1st, 2009 - 01:31
I think it's ironic the poster is only effective in the first place because of the strongly symbolic nature of the minaret as an islamic presence.
Still, at least they didn't have a picture of Churchill on it somewhere.
December 1st, 2009 - 10:13
I love how bad daft racists are with photoshop, it's as if all that racial purity and inbreeding has made them somehow cack-handed and deformed…
December 1st, 2009 - 10:54
That top one is the official poster of the campaign, is it?
December 1st, 2009 - 11:08
By the Swiss People's Party, yes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8297826.stm
December 1st, 2009 - 11:31
A bit like the BNP one, then?
So, in other words the far-right putting forward a racist image that doesn't reflect the majority view nor the real issue.
From the BBC article: "It [Switzerland] has hundreds of mosques, but only a handful of them have minarets."
What, exactly, is the problem here?
December 1st, 2009 - 16:55
i think Rick, and apologies if i have confused this anton
is that it is curious that the propaganda surrounding a vote which has purported to not be about anti islam or racism has been used by the BNP, a party which is clearly about both. so, even if the swiss party really didn't want this vote against minarets to be about islamaphobia (although the poster certainly suggests it is, even if the swiss voters themselves had different motives) the BNP certainly feel the message in the poster suits their own islamophobic and racist message.
that's my thoughts anyway