Poland: Racism on the rise - Die Welt

[TomSea]

Poland: Racism on the rise
Muslims and Africans are the most frequent targets of racially motivated attacks. Anti-German sentiment is also playing a role.

Three students from Turkey and Bulgaria were cursed at by young men on a tram earlier this month in Bydgoszcz, a city of nearly a half-million people in northern Poland. They were told to get out of country because Poland is for Poles.

Instances like these are on the rise. Foreign exchange students in Torun, a student city also in Poland's north, have come under increasing threat. A young Turk was recently cursed at and badly beaten. Two other students were forced to their knees in a bar at the behest of the owner. They had to "apologize" for being Muslim and not Christian. Patrons encircled the students -- not to help but to laugh at their humiliating position.

'Guardian angels' for exchange students

"I am shocked by the lynch atmosphere of this incident," said Ewa Walusiak-Bednarek, a spokeswoman for the University in Torun. "We have had exchange students for 10 years and this has never happened. Now it's happened twice this year."

The university of 20,000 students has a tradition of pairing exchange students with their Polish peers, who are known as guardian angels, to "help students from abroad get used to everyday life and understand the country better," Walusiak-Bednarek said. "The number of Polish guardian angels has increased from 30 to 110 since these attacks. Nearly all of our 130 foreign exchange students are able to have their own."

Elsewhere, a Nigerian doctoral candidate at the University of Warsaw suffered injuries after he was attacked in the street. Over the summer, a Polish professor and a visiting German researcher were verbally and physically assaulted while conversing on a Warsaw tram in German. The attack made headlines, but there was no condemnation made by public officials. The attacker was released after three months.

Continued: http://www.dw.com/en/poland-racism-on-the-rise/a-36812032

[Fishrrman]

The Poles have had a long history of being invaded by others.

For them, it's less racism than it is self-preservation.

[TomSea]

Die Welt is notoriously liberal on the issues of racism, immigration and so on; probably due to what has happened in the past.

So, they come up with these liberal articles but it did seem to be just a matter of time before some sort of real terror attack happened against Germany.

Very sad.

[skeeter]

The Poles have had a long history of being invaded by others.

For them, it's less racism than it is self-preservation.

Racism has been re-defined to mean anything running counter to the racialists plans to have everything their way.

[truth_seeker]

IOW some in Poland do not have sufficient white guilt, to please the SJW fake media ?

[Sanguine]

"Racism on the rise" is only a tiny part of the picture, as they well know, and to ignore the rest of the situation is to slant the news.

[dfwgator]

Żeby Polska była Polską!