Bus Seats Mistaken for Burqas by Members of Anti-Immigrant Group

The Norwegian right-wing group was mocked mercilessly for mistaking a photo of empty bus seats for women in burqas.

Photo Courtesy: Facebook/ John Lawless

A group of Norweigan anti-immigrants wrongly assumed a photograph on a Facebook post of six empty Oslo bus seats for a group of women wearing burqas.

Other members of this evident group, Fedrelandet viktigst, or “Fatherland first” displayed their denial to this photo thinking that these imaginary women might be carrying weapons under their clothes.

Further comments read: “Islam is and always will be a curse,” “Get them out of our country – frightening times we are living in,” and “Ghastly. This should never happen.”

Johan Slåttavik posted this photo as a joke with the intention of knowing how people’s perceptions of an image are influenced by how others around them react. He was quite amused by the reaction.

Majority of the comments prove to be the result of the on-going “Islamification” in Norway. But some told them that they were making a fuss out of it.

I’m shocked at how much hate and fake news is spread [on the Fedrelandet viktigst page]. So much hatred against empty bus seats certainly shows that prejudice wins out over wisdom.

Sindre Beyer, a former Labour party MP 

Along with France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria and the German state of Bavaria, Norway recently became the latest European country to propose restrictions on the wearing of burqas and niqabs.

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