COMPLAINTS
The campaign’s complaints about and reporting of anti-religious hate speech in traditional and new media are detailed here.
Letter of Complaint to HirTV for their racist and anti-migrant segment.
Get The Trolls Out partner Media Diversity Istitute wrote a complaint to HirTV for their recent TV segement labelling two migrant robbers in Sweden as 'black animals'.
Get The Trolls Out complains to De Standaard for article normalising Islamophobic hate speech
On the 7th January 2020, De Standaard published an article titled 'Van wielrenner to Dewinters pupil', which quoted an interview with Sam van Rooy, the new fraction leader of political party Vlaams Belang.
“QUEBEC SECULARISM PUT TO THE TEST OF MILITANT ISLAM”, L’ECHO’S ANTI-MUSLIM ARTICLE DEBUNKED
A flagrantly anti-Muslim article has appeared in L’Echo, a French-language Belgian business newspaper, reporting about the reaction of Muslim communities in Quebec to Bill 21, a law that was passed in June 2019.
GTTO REACTION VIDEO TO LAURENCE FOX'S COMMENTS ON SIKH SOLDIERS IN WW1
After Laurence Fox's outrageous comments on Question Time, he has since declared that he thinks it is 'institutionally racist’ and 'forced diversity' to include Sikh soldiers in a First World War Film.
SECOND SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSIVE COMPLAINT BY ENORB FOR ISLAMOPHOBIC IMAGES ON DH.BE
After the second complaint filed by GTTO partner ENORB in a couple of months, Belgian news site DH.be has retracted an inappropriate cover image in an article.
MDI Filed Several Complaints Against Far-Right Blog for Inciting Violence and Hate
GTTO partner MDI (Media Diversity Institute) has filed several complaints against a far-right blog for inciting violence and hate. The blog, called Spotting The Serpent’s Tale, published a post on the 13th of October titled: “Diversity: strength or weakness? Brexit as a case-study.” In the piece, she calls for the “cleansing” of those who make Britain multicultural.
GET THE TROLLS OUT CONDEMNS ROD LIDDLE FOR HIS ANTI-MUSLIM COLUMN ON THE SPECTATOR
An article by the columnist Rod Liddle suggesting that Muslims should be prevented from voting in the next general election has caused widespread criticism for its Islamophobic statements. The Media Diversity Institute published an article highlighting how Rod Liddle’s racist statements are far from being isolated, and Get the Trolls Out! joined the Stop Funding Hate campaign, by putting pressure on companies to stop advertising on media outlets that make profit out of hateful articles.
ENORB requests RTBF remove irrelevant religious information on Paris attacker
ENORB, GTTO partner in Belgium, has filed a complaint to the TV channel RTBF for unprofessional conduct. A news bulletin clip and a related article drew attention to the religion of the attacker who stabbed and killed four police officers at Paris’ police headquarters on 3 October 2019 but failed to explain why this was relevant to the story.
DH.be replaces inappropriate image of Muslim woman after ENORB’s complaint
Prompted by a complaint by the European Network On Religious Belief, the Belgian news site DH.be changed a photo used in an article about people’s attitudes towards Muslim head coverings.
Wim de Wit’s anti-Muslim speech goes against the democratic values he says to uphold
Speaking at the annual event of IJzerwake, an organisation uniting radical Flemish nationalists, chairman Wim de Wit delivered a violent anti-Muslim, homophobic, racist, sexist, and antiziganist speech. EUJS, Get The Trolls Out! partner in Belgium, sent a complaint letter to Wim de Wit to express their concern about his words and to highlight the inconsistency between his anti-democratic statements and the Flemish democratic values.
Symbiosis asks YouTube to ban videos of notorious holocaust denier in Greece
GTTO partner Symbiosis – School of Political Studies of the Council of Europe has filed a report on YouTube requesting the definitive ban of the Konstantinos Plevris’ account for its antisemitic content.
Symbiosis files complaints against two Greek media outlets for spreading anti-Muslim statements by Metropolitan Bishop Amvrosios
In the past few months, the two Greek news sites have shared open letters by the bishop where he attacks Muslims for the opening of a mosque in Athens. Symbiosis, GTTO partner in Greece, filed two complaints to news media outlets Vima Orthodoxias and Proto Thema for giving a platform to anti-Muslim statements by Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta, a fiery conservative Greek Orthodox bishop.
AMAZON ADVERT FOUND ON TOMMY ROBINSON’S WEBSITE AND REMOVED
An Amazon banner promoting Tommy Robinson’s book is no longer on TR News home page after the Media Diversity Institute filed a complaint to Amazon. MDI sent an official letter of complaint to Amazon asking the online shopping giant “to stop associating its name with the racist statements of Tommy Robinson”.
DH.de publishes harmful generalisation of Salafism
An article spreading harmful generalisations about Salafism in Belgium and the Netherlands has been published by the Belgian news outlet DH.be.
The Get the Trolls Out! partner in Belgium, European Network on Religion and Belief, has submitted a complaint to DH.be requesting significant edits to the article.