“This week, the popular right-wing Polish magazine wSieci ran a cover that has offended a lot of people. Reason being: It features an image of a woman being grabbed at by numerous hairy arms, and the words: “The Islamic Rape of Europe.”

The photograph—which, minus the hands, looks a lot like a stock image for “woman who’s just remembered she left the iron on”—is a comment on the sexual attacks on German women in Cologne that took place on New Year’s Eve. There were 58 counts of sexual assault that night, and even though only three arrested suspects were recent refugees, the subsequent message from Europe’s right-wing media was clear: Refugees are a threat to the safety of women in the EU.

Since the migrant crisis began, Poland has stuck to a very strict line on immigration. Most recently, at the EU summit currently taking place in Brussels, Poland—along with the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary—has called for Europe’s borders to be sealed off in order to block the main route used by refugees.

Considering the uproar over the cover so far seems to have come mostly from outside of Poland, and because I don’t speak Polish and therefore cannot gauge the reaction on Twitter, I decided to give our friend and VICE Poland editor Maciek Piasecki a call to see what his fellow countrymen think of the cover.”

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