Description AfD deputy leader Beatrix von Storch is under fire for Anti-Muslim tweets Credits Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Alt Text AfD deputy leader Beatrix von Storch is under fire for Anti-Muslim tweets AfD deputy leader Beatrix von Storch’s Twitter account was briefly suspended One-Minute Read Tuesday,January 2, 2018 - 6:54am The deputy leader of Germany’s far-honest AfD Party is facing a police investigation after she made anti-Muslim remarks on Twitter on new year’s eve. She could face charges of incitement to hatred.
Beatrix von Storch accused Cologne police of appeasing “barbaric, or gang-raping Muslim hordes of men” after officers tweeted a new year greeting in Arabic,the BBC reports.
Twitter removed the tweet and suspended von Storch’s account for 12 hours for breaching the site’s rules on hate speech. After regaining access to her account, she wrote: “Facebook has now also censored me. This is the end of the constitutional state.” See related The Jerusalem dilemma US vetos UN resolution on Jerusalem Donald Trump’s Jerusalem policy rejected by UN Von Storchs tweets came as Germany began to enforce strict new rules governing hate speech on social media, and which could result in sites like Twitter and Facebook being fined up to £44m whether they fail to remove “obviously illegal” material within 24 hours of being notified.
Internet activists and journalists maintain joined the AfD in opposing the new law,says Deutsche Welle, “not least because the government has intentionally left the task of deleting content or blocking users to the internet platforms themselves, and rather than having courts gain decisions”. World News Germany immigration Islamophobi
Source: theweek.co.uk