Karpos complains to Greek journalist for spreading the Great Replacement narrative and Islamophobia

GTTO (Get the Trolls Out!) partner Karpos sent a complaint letter to politician and author Andreas Andrianopoulos who wrote two Islamophobic articles for two different Greek news sites, spreading hateful tropes and conspiracy narratives against the Muslim community.    

On the in.gr website, he wrote the article: ‘Familiarity with Islam’. where he backed up his claims using referencing to the Great Replacement narrative.  

Andrianopoulos stated: “Greek society is now quite familiar with Islam. News from around the world of violence, conflict, revolutions, and seizures of power often floods television screens and social media. Our living room is filled with descriptions, often bloody, of exchanges of aggressive energies, while Arabic words, common in the Islamic religion, have become known and embellish the conversations between Greeks.”  

The writer escalated his anti-Muslim views in another piece, for sofokleous10.gr news site, titled “Aggressive Islam and individual freedoms”.

In this piece, Andrianopoulos focuses on a specific dogma of Islam and identifies himself as an Islamic studies expert, without presenting any academic credentials or scholarship to support his offensive claims in blaming Islam for the adverse incidents experienced in the West.  

Despite several complaints, the politician seems committed to maintain his anti-Muslim views and ignoring Karpos’s warnings about the dangers of spreading misinformation and Islamophobic narratives. Moreover, the writer refers to the Great replacement narrative. In both publications, he states that the Greek society is at risk of extinction as the Muslim Community is invading Europe to colonise, appropriate, and exploit their resources.  

Karpos’s mission is to ensure that the Greek citizens live in harmony and embrace the benefits of an inclusive and diverse society. People from different ethnicities and religions can live in peace and be treated fairly.  

Karpos stated:  “There is no plan for Muslims to invade and occupy Europe, and European values are not endangered by ‘overexposure’ to cultural symbols of religions other than Christianity, and Muslims are not a ‘single population’ that is governed by the same values, aspirations, characteristics - just like Christians.”  

Unfortunately, these publications are not a novelty for Greek readers, as there is a noticeable preference for Islamophobic and hateful content in Andrianopoulos’s articles.   

Karpos also highlighted that Andrianopoulos's arguments about Islam are mostly based on inaccurate and invalid sources, lacking reliable data, demonstrating a biased judgment rather than conclusive and fair information around the topic.