Talk:Islamophobia in Poland

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Fronda, wSieci

These are fringe, marginal sources, even though User:Icewhiz has tried to use them elsewhere on Wikipedia as reliable, and I'm not sure if they're DUE for mention here.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:08, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Academic WP:RSes on Islamophobia in Poland deem this as meriting mention - we follow sources. Neither Fronda nor wSieci are used as a source - nor should they be - we have an academic source covering their connection to Islamophobia. Icewhiz (talk) 09:12, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

I'm happy to see that you've changed your mind about the reliability of these as sources.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:25, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Banasiak

Putting aside the fact that this guy is referred to as "liberal" and the fact that he's fringe and member of a party which didn't even cross the electoral threshold, which part of the source given supports the following claim:

"however, after the "positive and supportive" intervention of the Ministry of Justice, the case was to be reopened and reassessed"

@Icewhiz:? Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:16, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

This was copied from Islam in Poland where it has been for a while. Icewhiz (talk) 09:52, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

You put it in here so you're responsible for it. Why did you include information that was not actually in the source, up to including a false quotation? Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

@Icewhiz:? Volunteer Marek (talk) 19:51, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

@Icewhiz:? Volunteer Marek (talk) 23:40, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Please stop pinging me on this issue. At this point I think we have better quality sources available for the topic, so this content from Islam in Poland is not required.Icewhiz (talk) 03:57, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Maybe we do, but that still leaves the question of WHY you added the false info into the article.Volunteer Marek (talk) 06:31, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

In a very early version of this article, this was copied from Islam in Poland (perma version) - where it was a long while. We generally WP:AGF, and the citations do seem to cover what they are supporting. I shall WP:AGF vs. yourself and assume that your challenge on the Ministry of Justice quote is correct - and regardless - there are simply much better sources available (as I've discovered in the last few days reading the relevant academic literature) - so I see no need to discuss this particular content. Icewhiz (talk) 06:42, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

It's misleading to speak of a "very early version" of this article since this article has just been created. And the only reason why it was in a "very early version" is because *I* removed it. It is likewise completely false that "citations do seem to cover what they are supporting". You don't even have the excuse that the sources are in a foreign language since one of them is in English! And AGF or not, we do expect editors to WP:V sources when inserting text, especially with something so controversial. You yourself have screamed bloody murder and demanded that other editors be sanctioned after falsely accusing them of failing to verify sources. Why is it okay for you to demand sanctions against others for things which you yourself do? And THAT IS assuming good faith towards you, it's assuming that you failed to verify, rather than willingly put the false info into the article.Volunteer Marek (talk) 07:12, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Again - copied. Cited source is titled Who wants to ban the Koran in Poland[1]. It does indeed cover the attempts of Paweł Banasiak (Polish historian (PhD) + politician in one of Korwin-Mikke's parties (which keep changing names)) to outlaw Islam. It does cover Banasiak's meetings with the Justice ministry on this matter and court proceedings. According to rp.pl - according to Banasiak the Justice ministry was supportive of his efforts (and "would take care of the case") while according to the Justice ministry's spokesperson they met with Banasiak but only promised they would duly analyze his documents. Most of the text you removed - seems to be very well supported by rp.pl. However - I am not contesting your removal - as I only added this as existing base content from other articles - and we have much better sources here on the topic. I will try to find English language coverage on parties associated with Janusz Korwin-Mikke and Islam - it's likely there is some.Icewhiz (talk) 10:28, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Well, if you did copy it, you obviously didn't bother to verify that the source supports the text.

Your description of the info in the source is thoroughly and absolutely false.

The text you put in says " "positive and supportive" intervention of the Ministry of Justice". There's NOTHING to suggest that in the source. The source does NOT say that the Ministry "will take care of the case". It only says that they are required by law to look at such complaints. You made it up. The source actually suggests the OPPOSITE - the Ministry of Justice responded to claims by saying that "religious freedom is protected by the constitution". Basically telling the proposal in polite legalese government language to f'off.

(for what's it's worth your claim that these fringe political parties or politicians that no one's ever heard after are trying to "outlaw Islam" is also false. They're trying to outlaw some Muslim organizations which is despicable enough, but why exaggerate Icewhiz?)

Oh and you still haven't explained how the VICE source, which is in English so you can't plead ignorance here, supports the text about Tatats? That too is completely false and you put it in the article.Volunteer Marek (talk) 15:56, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Lede, other stuff

The lede is supposed to summarize the article. That's not what this lede does. Also, it may very well be that a background section on history of Muslim communities in Poland is appropriate, but let's stick to this topic please.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:30, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

If you object to lead content - then move it to the body - don't remove wholesale. This is a newly developed article, and the breaking up into sections was only performed recently. Islamophobia without Muslims is contrasted to antisemitism with Jews by multiple academic sources and is definitely DUE for the lead and body. Icewhiz (talk) 09:50, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

I object to the lede content, and I object to you trying to use this article as a WP:COATRACK. For some reason you're trying to make article titled "Islamophobia in Poland" into an article about antisemitism in Poland. That's WP:COATRACK. Can you answer my query in the section right above this one? It kind of looks like you grossly misrepresented a source up to including a false quote from it.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Academic journal articles on Islamophobia make the connection - we follow sources. Icewhiz (talk) 11:05, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Trying to make an article on Islamophobia in Poland about anti-semitism in Poland is very clearly a violation of WP:COATRACK, whether or not your cherry picked sources mention both or not. You still haven't answered the question above regarding your insertion of false material with fake-sourcing above.Volunteer Marek (talk) 07:29, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

This article is about Islamophobia. Numerous top-notch academic sources tie Polish Islamophobia to Polish antisemitism - both in terms of employment of the same old antisemitic tropes respun to target Muslim other and in terms of modern expression of Polish Islamophobia being coupled with Polish antisemitism. The newer bigotry is based, here, on the old bigotry and its expression coincides with the old. We follow sources - not unfounded opinions by editors not grounded in reliable sources. Icewhiz (talk) 07:37, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Which means the connection can be mentioned, but trying to make a good portion of the article about Islamophobia be instead about anti-semitism is kind of ridiculous. And it's a pretty textbook case of WP:COATRACK.Volunteer Marek (talk) 20:25, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

The content you removed - in a wholesale removal of 3K of material - diff - was sourced to academic books and journal articles. Oddly you also saw fit to remove the makeup of the Muslim population of Poland. Academic sources on Islamophobia in Poland devote extensive space to comparing it to antisemitism - noting that Islamophobia is based on the prior antisemitic motifs and that Islamophobia and antisemitism occur jointly. Jan T. Gross's observation that Islamophobia in Poland and Eastern Eurpe (in the context of Muslim refugee fear) arises due to a failure to come to terms with Holocaust complicity - has been widely quoted by sources on Islamophobia in Poland.Icewhiz (talk) 21:00, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

It's interesting that Iswhiz is unable to edit Israel and Islamophobia but supports Islam in Poland. Anything is good to attack Poland and Polish people. It's an obsession parallel to anti-Semiiitism. This Wikipedia is unable to stop the racist/ideological fighters. Xx236 (talk) 12:08, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Events

Ecents of 2016. Please wake up.Xx236 (talk) 12:10, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Facts

The phobia has rational roots - a number of emancipated Polish women has married Islam believers, emigrated and learned about cultural differences, eg. no right to children.

Poles were victims of Islamic terror in Western Europe

• 2004 Madrid train bombings 4 Poles died
• 2015 Bardo National Museum attack 3 Poles died. (Africa)
• 2016 Reutlingen knife attack 1 woman.
• 2016 Berlin truck attack Łukasz Urban, the driver, was murdered.Xx236 (talk) 12:14, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
• 2018 Strasbourg attack one Pole died
• 2019 k9illing of unborn child [2].

Well - this source - does frame Polish migration from the homogeneous (ethnic/religious/national) Polish society to the multicultural UK and continued contact with friends and family back in Poland as a transnational transmission mechanism of Islamophobia into Poland. However, they haven't covered terror. Do you have a source or edit in mind for terrorism and/or intermarriage? Icewhiz (talk) 12:40, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

I don't have numbers, but probably Germany influences Poland more than UK does. Especially Eastern Germany with their anti-immigrant AFD support and immigrant centers.Xx236 (talk) 06:18, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Possibly - we need a source though.Icewhiz (talk) 06:41, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

It's your page. You have to learn to write it, but you don't care, you publish accidentally selected trash. If this Wikipedia accepts your racist hate and propaganda, I have to move to an another project.Xx236 (talk) 08:52, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kiosk/ratunek-z-kobiecego-piekla/slyg4 MAny such texts about Arabs. Xx236 (talk) 13:26, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

People migrate from Sweden to Poland:

• https://voiceofeurope.com/2017/10/croatian-migrant-leaves-unsafe-sweden-now-lives-happy-poland/ A Croat family
• Jerzy Grunwald, a musician, returned from Sweden to Poland. Xx236 (talk) 12:48, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Polish painter Piotr Krosny attacked in Sweden https://euroislam.pl/somalijczycy-pobili-polskiego-malarza-w-szwecji-szwecja-nie-jest-juz-bezpieczna/ Xx236 (talk) 12:52, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

A Russian man run away from Sweden with his three daughters.[3]Xx236 (talk) 13:28, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Lipks Tatars

Is there any real Islamophobia against Lipka Tatars? A drawing of a pig's head on the Kruszyniany Mosque? Wow! The world is horrifieed.Xx236 (talk) 12:23, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

The journal paper by Narkowicz&Pędziwiatr published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, sees this as significant:

Yet perhaps the most devastating – not in scale but in symbolism – was the 2014 attack on the seventeenth-century Tatar mosque in Kruszyniany. A pig was drawn on the outside wall of the green wooden mosque and abusive graffiti was sprayed on the graves of the adjacent Muslim cemetery. The Tatars, having lived in Poland for several hundred years without experiencing hostility, were deeply affected by this unprecedented rise in Islamophobic attacks. This incident showed that, in the context of an unprecedented rise in Islamophobia, all Muslims are targeted through attacks on their places of worship, whether they have lived in Poland for centuries or just a few years.

[4] I don't know if the world is horrified, but Tatars previously long integrated in Polish society are affected by this new prejudice. Icewhiz (talk) 12:33, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Level below zero. Don' you undertsand the connection between Islamist terror and Islamist refurbishing of Polish Tatars? Tomasz Miśkiewicz studied in Saudi Arabia and caused a conflict among believers.Xx236 (talk) 12:35, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

the imagined "conquest of Europe" by Islam

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5013507,00.html Is my source islamophobic? Ynet should inform about it. Xx236 (talk) 12:33, 5 August 2019 (UTC) Xx236 (talk) 12:31, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

A book

http://otworzksiazke.pl/images/ksiazki/muslims/muslims.pdf Xx236 (talk) 13:24, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Tag removed

It seems the tag regarding Europa Przyszlosci was removed [5] with a false edit summary which claimed to address the issue, but didn't. Who or what is this group? A google search turns up nothing - mostly links to Polish language version of European Community's pages about the future of Europe. It seems like this is some super-marginal fringe group that nobody's ever heard off, yet it's given all this undue attention in this article.Volunteer Marek (talk) 07:33, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

It is unfortunate your google searching attempts were unsuccessful. Europe of the Future (Europa Przyszłości) is covered in three cited journal articles on Islamophobia. The group is clearly identified in the text, and placing the tag was not inline with the documentation of Template:Who. Icewhiz (talk) 08:18, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

References

Nice to have the three sources, unfortunately unavailable to the majority of readers. Rich people versus poor people, the rich ones win.Xx236 (talk) 08:25, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Three journal articles specifically mention this group - which was groundbreaking in terms of Islamophobia Poland (starting off the mosque protests). There are a few more (the 2010 anti-mosque demonstrations being a pretty big deal). The text was expanded. Per Template:Who - "This tag is for placement after attributions to vague "authorities" such as "serious scholars", "historians say", "some researchers", "many scientists", and the like" - there is nothing vague in the text - the group is very clearly named. @Volunteer Marek: - just because you personally haven't heard of something, isn't a valid justification for a clearly specified entity. Please justify this tag you've reinstated in terms of actual policy - I'm unsure how to address your concerns here further (3 citations - in OVERCITE turf really, and the group is very clearly specified). Icewhiz (talk) 22:48, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Who IS this group then? And it's not just that *I* haven't heard of them, it's that there is NOTHING about them out there on the vast internets, aside from these few sources you dug up. If they were significant we'd be able to find *something* about them. Where are they based? Who's in it? How long have they been around? How many members? But there's nothing.Volunteer Marek (talk) 23:39, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

The group is noted for organizing one of the first major anti-Islam protests in Poland and is covered in that context in several journal articles - in persisting coverage after the event (in addition to NEWSORG coverage of the event from 2010). I provided three top notch aources - I suggest you read them of you want to learn more.Icewhiz (talk) 04:02, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

That didn't answer ANY of the questions. There is no info about this group anywhere what so ever. Who are they? Who's in charge? How many members? Can you provide even one link which describes who the group are? None of the sources you provided do that.Volunteer Marek (talk) 07:13, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Three academic sources consider them relevant for analysis. They are very clearly identified in our text. There is no basis here for the who tag. As for your own curiosity on this Islamophobic group - I don't feel particularly inclined to delve deeper. Perhaps you could work on satisfying your curiosity by yourself (the sources I provided would be a start), however please do not add content to this article from their website or anything similar. In any case, absent any concrete rationale for the tag - I shall remove it as the group is very clearly identified. Icewhiz (talk) 08:46, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Again, you are side stepping the questions. Since you added the info you should be the one who "satisfies the curiosity". If you don't feel inclined to provide further information then we can remove the text about a group which appears to be ... a guy with a website? Of the sort of which there are thousands, or hundreds of thousands in US, UK or any other European country. That's the UNDUE problem here. The text misrepresents the situation by implying this group is in any way significant.Volunteer Marek (talk) 08:51, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Your WP:OR and personal curiosity on this hate group is very interesting, however has no bearing on the article. Sources:

1. [6] - "A group called Europa Przyszłości [Europe of the Future] emerged as the main orchestrators of the opposition to the new mosque." (page 7) - this is then following by an analysis on 7,8,9. On page 10, in context of the 2012 opposition to the second mosque, Europa Przyszłości (which declined to paticipate since "Firstly, and surprisingly, the main opponents of the Ochota mosque – the liberal Europa Przyszłości – did not engage in the opposition to Włochy mosque. A statement on their website declared that they would not be protesting against the Ahmadiyya mosque because, they argued, the Ahmadiyya group was peaceful and not politicised like the other Muslim groups in Poland (Euroislam.pl, 11 January 2011). So we have here 4 pages of content in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
2. In [7] (in East European Politics and Societies, article covering several countries East-Central Europe): "Since 2010, the association Europe of the Future and the portal Euroislam.pl led by Jan Wójcik and Piotr Slusarczyk respectively have been the most vocal Islamophobes.56 The organisation labelled itself as conservative. In 2010, it organised a demonstration against the construction of a mosque in Warsaw.57.
3. In [8] (In Patterns of Prejudice, again - a 4 country comparison): "In Poland, the Counter-Jihad movement has a longer tradition. Since 2004, the association Europa Przyszłości (Europe of the Future), with its online portal euroislam.pl, has been the most vocal Islamophobic online organization, with 17,000 Facebook followers and euroislam.pl attracting 100,000 visitors per month in 2016.21 ... - followed by approx. 1 page of content to this group.

Please do attempt to read relevant academic literature on the subject yourself - it is readily available - and spare us from observations such as "a guy with a website?" (above) or "who is this? LIke three people and a dog?"[9]. On Wikipedia we follow WP:RSes, not the opinions and WP:OR of editors. Icewhiz (talk) 09:22, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Icewhiz at work

Icewhzi uses Islam as a tool against Poland an d Polish people. He continues his treaditional work - selecting trash texts from biased anti-Polish sources. It's a case of Westsplaining, which allegedly doesn't exists - foraigners write racist hate-texts against Polish people.

Poland accepted Chechens during their wars. The Chechens left Poland and a number of the Chechens participated in crimes. So the Poles are cautious now.Xx236 (talk) 08:22, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Transnational Islamophobia verification tag

@Volunteer Marek: - you placed a Template:Verify-inline template. Per the template documentation - "Add the Verify source template only after you have made a good faith attempt to verify the information". Please specify what good faith attempts you have made to verify and why you have concerns. Beyond being in the journal article itself, this two sentence blurb is mostly contained in the publicly available abstract - here - making this tag quite confusing in given the requisite good-faith verification attempt here. Icewhiz (talk) 08:23, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Sure, but you need to answer the question of why you put in false information into the article, complete with a manufactured quote, and pretended to source it, as posed right here.Volunteer Marek (talk) 19:53, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

You were told precisely where that came from. I understand then that you have no specific concerns here then.Icewhiz (talk) 20:15, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

I didn't ask where it came from. I asked WHY you put it in there, as it's obviously false info not found in the source. THAT is my "specific concern".Volunteer Marek (talk) 20:23, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Any specific concern with content from Islamophobia on the move: circulation of anti-Muslim prejudice between Poland and the UK? I intend to remove the tag, as I've verified the content, unless you can point out anything in particular here. Icewhiz (talk) 21:02, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

The point is that someone OTHER than the editor who added the material - the same editor who in a few edits before that added false information not backed at all by the source he included - verifies the source.Volunteer Marek (talk) 02:23, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Please WP:AGF. The information is very clearly supported by the cited source - Islamophobia on the move: circulation of anti-Muslim prejudice between Poland and the UK[10] (published - a book section). As I have verified, I intend to remove the tag unless there is any particular concern. Icewhiz (talk) 06:19, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Again, the point is that we need someone other than you - especially since you just added clearly false info into the article with fake-sourcing - to verify. Hence the request. You can email me the article or provide quotes with context here. You should also not incorrectly claim that "sources are readily available". They're not. You should also read WP:AGF more carefully.Volunteer Marek (talk) 07:16, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

That is an inappropriate use of the verify tag - please read the template documentation.Icewhiz (talk) 08:49, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Despite this tag being misused, and the conduct accusations above, the text in our article:

Immigration of Poles to the United Kingdom has led many migrants from the homogeneous Polish society to encounter a culturally diverse setting for the first time. This contact, coupled with continued contact with family members in Poland, has led to a transnational transfer of Islamophobia back into Poland

Is mostly verifiable even by the abstract:

The paper firstly shows that upon migrating to the UK many Poles have increased contact with Muslim people and find themselves in the midst of already-established attitudes towards Muslim groups. The consequence of this is development, revision or change of attitudes towards Muslims. Secondly, the paper demonstrates that the newly developed or acquired (and frequently prejudice-loaded) discourses are likely to travel back to Poland together with migrant stories. This has the potential to strengthen negative attitudes towards Islam among people in Poland.

I, however, summarized the paper itself (which I read in full). Specifically, under the sub-heading Migration and Anti-Muslim Sentiments (page 94-95):

While historically diverse and a home for such minority populations as Muslim Tatars, contemporary Polish society remains nonetheless relatively homogeneous in terms of ethnicity, nationality and religion (predominantly Roman Catholic).28 This is a consequence of the Second World War as well as the communist regime which lasted until 1989.29 In this context, it has been argued that for many Polish migrants in heterogeneous societies such as the UK, the act of migration is followed by their first personal encounter with increased cultural diversity.30

Then under sub-heading Transnational Transmission of Islamophobia (pages 95-96):

One of the main findings of our research with Polish migrants is that many of them discussed their attitudes (both positive and negative) with their significant others in Poland. This matters crucially because prejudiced views, including Islamophobia, are very likely to be passed on between family members or peers. .... This case exemplifies a wider prevalence in our findings of circulation of Islamophobia across borders Here, her brother became a transnational agent who transmitted anti-Muslim prejudice across national borders. .... Importantly, our findings suggest that in addition to unfavourable attitudes, prejudiced language, discourses, practices and behaviour are also particularly likely to circulate between migrants and significant others in their societies of origin.

In conclusion:

Fostered for centuries, the positive attitudes towards Muslims in Poland have undergone a change with a recent growth of anti-Muslim attitudes in the country. We argue that Islamophobia is on the move not only as migrants travel between societies, but also when they communicate anti-Muslim attitudes to their relatives and friends in sending societies.

I will also note that this content is trivial to obtain. Any issue with the above? Icewhiz (talk) 09:03, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I have - your sources are unavailable. If abstracts contain everything, why to write/read more? The Nature should use Twitter. Xx236 (talk) 08:29, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

You have to read this

"the root of hostility to Muslim refugees in East European countries generally and Poland specifically is connected to the failure to come to terms with their role in the Holocaust and specifically complicity with the Nazis". A mastership of hate -speach. But the liberal and progressive Germans created the ADF, 11%. Xx236 (talk) 08:46, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Knife attack in Poland

https://gazetawroclawska.pl/wroclaw-atak-nozownika-w-galerii-dominikanskiej-ofiara-nie-zyje/ar/13951709 Xx236 (talk) 10:56, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

And? I don't see where Gazeta Wrocławska mention Islamophobia (as a hate crime? a response? as background?) - AFAICT they don't even mention Islam or Muslim in the piece. Icewhiz (talk) 11:01, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Is fear of criminals islamophobia?

A Chechen criminal group has been recently arrestted in Poland. Sure, a Buddist with a knife from Turkey. Xx236 (talk) 12:18, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/germany-travel-advisory.html "Exercise increased caution in Germany due to terrorism." Yes, they don't inform who are the terorists.Xx236 (talk) 12:24, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

The travel advisory mentions neither Poland nor Muslims/Islam - let alone Islamophobia. Speculating on the religious background (or relevance thereof) of individuals reported to have been from Turkey - is WP:OR. Likewise, speculation on the religious background of people from Chechnya would be OR - and regardless irrelevant to this article unless a source makes the connection (e.g. arrest motivated by Islamophobia). Icewhiz (talk) 12:33, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Please don't turn this into "list of Islamophobic incidents in Poland". Volunteer Marek (talk) 20:23, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Jumping in to create artificial reverts

Icewhiz, you ceased making edits to this article on 8/7 9:58 [11]. I began making edits about ten hours later at 19:55 [12]. You immediately resumed editing and jumped in to stick your edits in between my edits, creating edit conflicts and separating out my edits with yours. I'm bringing this up because previously you tried using the same exact tactic to try and report me for 3RR [13] [14] [15]. Can you lay off of the WP:OWN for a bit and let other editors edit in peace? Volunteer Marek (talk) 20:22, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

I'm trying to write an article here. I am not "creating editing conflicts" - but adding material from a journal article I read. Icewhiz (talk) 20:49, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

You were not "writing an article" (or editing at all) between 9:58 and 19:55. You immediately started editing again seconds after I made my first edit today to the article. I would be quite willing to chalk it up to a strange coincidence, except, as noted above, you've done this before and tried to exploit it for the purposes of spurious reports.Volunteer Marek (talk) 20:55, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

As you already pointed in the ARBCOM case, if one were to check your and Icewhiz's Wiki-interactions, they'll be bound to find a whole lot of them for no reason other than the sheer number of edits you've both made in certain topic areas. By a similar logic, some proportion of Icewhiz's 77 edits on this page from the past three days is bound to fall closely to some of yours. François Robere (talk) 21:44, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

(ec)Lol. Right. He made no edits between 9:58 and 19:55 and then when I make an edit at 19:55 and 19:57, he starts jumping in at 19:58. And you know what else I pointed out at the ArbCom case? That you and Icewhiz have never disagreed on anything (though apparently there was one instance out of 100+ where there was some mild disagreement) and that you always show up for some reason to support each other. Come on. In the past week, Icewhiz has replied to comments and questions I posed to you, then you show up and reply to comments and questions I've posed to him. You start using the esoteric word "superset" in discussions, Icewhiz starts using the same word. Icewhiz starts reverting with the inappropriate justification of "stable version", you start reverting with the same inappropriate justification. Please, can you guys at least try to keep up appearances? Volunteer Marek (talk) 22:05, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Well - I've been actually authoring quite a bit of content here (around 20K of new material (if we add back in the 6K VM just removed)) - it's been my main project for the past couple of days (I created a copied stubby-stub (copied from a version in Racism in Poland after some editors removed it on the basis of their personal opinion of Islamophobia not constituting racism) on the evening 3 August - but only really started working on this on 4 August). So yes - I've been done quite a bit of editing to this article over the last few days. I finished eating my dinner (during which I read an article from Gender, Place & Culture which I found earlier today) - and went to bang a bit on the keyboard entering it. At many random points during the past 2 days I've been editing this article - it didn't go from 0 to where it is without editing! Icewhiz (talk) 22:02, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

You made no edits between 9:58 and 19:55, approximately ten hours, then immediately started making edits when I made an edit, you then proceeded to jump in and insert your own, fairly minor edits, in between mine in order to claim that I made multiple reverts, I then called you out for doing that on the talk page and predicted you were trying to generate an excuse for a spurious 3RR report, you then did exactly what I predicted. WP:GAME.Volunteer Marek (talk) 22:05, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Dubious tag

@Volunteer Marek: - Please express your exact concerns with this tag.Icewhiz (talk) 21:06, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Verification tag on Pedziwiatr

@Volunteer Marek: - per Template:Verify source - you are suppose to add this template "only after you have made a good faith attempt to verify the information". In regards to diff. This information is on the top of page 462 (second page of article - starts at 461) - withing the opening paragraph (following the abstract) - it should be pretty obvious - it is the first instance of "highest" if you text search. Please explain what in your good faith attempts to verify this information led you to place this tag and why you still think it is necessary should you think it should still remain. Icewhiz (talk) 21:11, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Please provide the relevant quotation in proper context or better yet, send me a copy of the paper.

Please explain WHY (not HOW, that's easy to see) you inserted false information into the article and pretended to source it to a source which did not contain the information you claimed [16].Volunteer Marek (talk) 22:06, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

I've already responded to that, please keep each issue in its own section. I understand you haven't actually read the source, which is readily available - which leaves me puzzled to as why the tag was placed. I have verified the that the content appears in the source - "The Polish public has voiced some of the strongest dissent in Europe against taking in refugees fleeing the war-torn Middle East, and continues to express one of the highest rates of fear of Muslims among European countries" (first paragraph in article (following abstract), top of page 462). I will also note that several other journals articles with polling data mention Poland being the highest or among the highest in terms of Islamophobia. Any additional concerns here ? Icewhiz (talk) 22:20, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

You may have responded but you did not answer. And the two issues are obviously related. If an editor knowingly puts in false information into an article (see WP:HOAX) and then pretends to source it (with a source that doesn't say anything like the text claims) that raises obvious issues of WP:V. This is made even more pertinent when that editor claims that a source is "readily available" when that is clearly not the case (you got to shell out 43 bucks for it). Opposition to taking in refugees is probably correlated with Islamophobia but it's not the same thing. But thank you for finally (why was this so hard???) providing the relevant quotes.Volunteer Marek (talk) 23:35, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Please WP:AGF and stick to discussing the issue at hand in each section. The source, published in Patterns of Prejudice, states "The Polish public ... and continues to express one of the highest rates of fear of Muslims among European countries". Please use appropriate tags - Template:Verify source is not a quotation request. I intend to remove the tag unless you have additional concerns. Icewhiz (talk) 06:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I don't know the subject, but the text accuses Pędziwiatr to work for a think tank Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research of an Islamic Turkish party Justice and Development Party (Turkey).https://euroislam.pl/jak-dr-pedziwiatr-tropil-islamofobie/Xx236 (talk) 06:39, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I don't need the above source, here is Pędziwiatr, K., (2017) Islamophobia in Poland: National Report 2016. In: Enes Bayralki & Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2016, Istanbul. SETA. 411-443 , so the SETA publishes his yearly reports.Xx236 (talk) 06:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

An interview with Pędziwiatr. I believe that the title is wrong, so I don't translate it. http://www.miesiecznik.znak.com.pl/europa-stanie-sie-muzulmanska/ Xx236 (talk) 06:42, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Xx236 - you just linked to euroislam.pl - which is described thus in academic journals: "Since 2010, the association Europe of the Future and the portal Euroislam.pl led by Jan Wójcik and Piotr Slusarczyk respectively have been the most vocal Islamophobes."[17] We generally avoid linking to hate sites on Wikipedia. Icewhiz (talk) 07:13, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Says anti-Polish hate speaker Icewhiz.

Please read above - I don't need the source, because Pędziwiatr's cooperation with the SETA is obvious. Please read before you write.Xx236 (talk) 07:27, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

History / ethnic makeup of Poland's Muslims

The following has been removed from the background section diff + diff:

Prior to World War II, the vast majority of Poland's Muslim population was Tatar. However the boundary changes of the war left most of the Tatars outside of Poland, and this led the Polish Muslim community to be increasingly diverse. According to a 2015 estimate, Muslims in Poland are estimated to number between 25,000 to 40,000 people or some 0.1% of the population, and are composed of Lipka Tatars (in Poland since the 14th century) as well as more numerous recent immigrants. Initially the small Muslim community was treated equally unlike other minorities, Jews in particular, that have faced hostility and suspicion. During communist rule the censorship office barred unfavorable portrayals of Muslims due to Poland's geopolitical alignment with Arab countries during this period.

Academic sources on Islamophobia seem to think that the makeup (specifically Tatar vs. newer arrivals, noting that Tatars were historically integrated and well treated in Poland - unlike other minorities) and number of Muslims is relevant to the topic at hand. On what basis is this challenged? Icewhiz (talk) 07:30, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

References

Gross's analysis on the hate discourse being tied to the Holocaust

In diff - Gross's analysis on hate discourse being tied to not coming to "terms with its murderous past" was removed. Covered in this book, this journal article. Also NEWSORGs - e.g. Atlantic, and other journal articles - e.g. [18] "The author argues that, in contrast to Germany’s more welcoming attitude towards migrants and refugees today, Eastern European xenophobia is connected to its reluctance to confront its population’s active and even enthusiastic participation in the extermination of Jews and other ethnic minorities. Gross states that German society has increased its awareness of its historical crimes and as a result of this awareness has learned to address moral and political challenges such as the current influx of refugees.". On what basis is this challenged? Icewhiz (talk) 07:41, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I believe more facts regarding the explicit details of how Hitler recruited Muslims needs to be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DemarcusJenkins (talk • contribs) 23:40, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

wSieci - The Islamic rape of Europe

In diff, the following was challenged:

In 2016, the wSieci magazine ran a cover with a white women assaulted by dark males under the title "The Islamic rape of Europe" which evoked outrage, and has been compared to WWII propaganda with the same imagery.

References

The content has been sourced to secondary academic coverage from 2018 as well as The Guardian and Washington Post. I will note that academic writing, since 2016, has referred to this multiples times, e.g. in: [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25][26], [27]. On what grounds is this being challenged?Icewhiz (talk) 07:46, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I don't know anything about long and racist history of Poland and Islam. It's true that Poland fought wars against Ottoman Empire. Poland had however Tatar units and Turkey had Slavic converted units, what racism is it? Some Polish writers loved Islam culture. Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski published Sur les chevaux orientaux et provenants des races orientales which contains more than 400 full-color drawings, recording culture and customs of Saudi Arabian Desert. The Saragossa Manuscript (film) is based on The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. Washington Post is published a long way from Europe, so they don't have to be afraid of the 2015 immigrants arriving to Europe.

The cover was published one month after the 2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany. It's not a long and racist history, it was recent. The majority of aggresive young men were Arabic Islam believers.

Xx236 (talk) 08:13, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Islamophobic incidents against German school girls

In diff the following was removed:

In June 2017, German Muslim schoolgirls said they faced racist abuse while visiting Holocaust memorials in eastern Poland. One girl said police had stood by, grinning, as she was spat on in the street. The Lublin police said in response that "the trip participants did not report any complaints to Lublin police officers".

Besides the BBC being a well regarded international WP:RS, these attacks on Theodor-Heuss-Schule students have been covered in national German media: [28], [29], [30] as well as other international RSes, e.g.: [31]. I will also note that per subsequent coverage (on wider xenophobia in Poland) in Deutsche Welle [32] - "The case of a Muslim pupil from Berlin, who was spat on on an open road during a class trip in the eastern city of Lublin, was widely discussed in government-critical media. She reported that Polish police simply laughed and trivialized the attack when she asked for help. After protests from Adam Bodnar, the country's human rights spokesman, or ombudsman, the prosecutor's office initiated proceedings over both the attack and the lack of police response.". On what basis is this challenged? Icewhiz (talk) 08:31, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

A series of Polonophobic incidents in this Wikipedia. Haaretz, please describe.Xx236 (talk) 08:52, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Please decide - either the girls were abused as persons of another race (which one ?) or as Muslims (exactly because of their hijabs, which is the only way to recognize a Muslim woman). Lublin has a number of kebab restaurants, some of them owned by Muslims, not abused.Xx236 (talk) 09:05, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Decide? That would be WP:OR. There's little doubt this was Islamophobia per the cited sources. As for whether Islamophobia is anti-race, ant-religion, or a mixture of both - that seems to be variable and context dependent (and possibly varying in interpretation between sources).Icewhiz (talk) 11:25, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

The bigger issue is that this isn't a "list of Islamophobic incidents in Poland" article where we go out into the internets and find every single instance of an Islamophobic incident that has occured. We don't do that for Islamophobia in the United States, we don't do that for Islamophobia in United Kingdom, we don't do that for Israel and Islamophobia, we don't do that for most "Islamophobia in XYZ" articles (and to the extent that you can find a bit of that in some of these articles, it should likewise be removed). Prominent politicians say dumb ignorant shit? Put that in. Significant groups with non-trivial membership (more than just a guy with a website) hold messed-up "protests"? Put that in. But this "somebody said something maybe" kind of stuff, or this "Europa Przyszlosci" group, which does appear to be just a guy with a website, are just not notable or significant, even if you can find a couple sources that mention it. This is exactly what WP:UDUE and WP:NOTNEWS were written for.Volunteer Marek (talk) 00:09, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Your personal observations here are not supported by sources nor by policy. A List of Islamophobic incidents in Poland article would pass WP:LISTN - easily (as it is discussed as a set in multiple sources - from yearly Islamophobia reports to NEWORG and academic sources). Should I start it? This page, however, is not at the size where Wikipedia:Splitting is required yet. This is not a NOTNEWS situation - this isn't a routine event (yet - AFAICT - in Poland). The event itself - Islamophobic attack of German school girls in Lublin - would probably pass NEVENT for a standalone article. It definitely merits inclusion here. Icewhiz (talk) 06:51, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Also - your assertion on Islamophobia in the United States is false, as it contains events such as school vandalism (permalink). Icewhiz (talk) 06:54, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Also - your assertion on Islamophobia in United Kingdom is false, as permalink to Hate crimes section in Islamophobia in United Kingdom - contains several incidents - including incidents such as racist chanting towards a Muslim football player in a game. Icewhiz (talk) 06:59, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Whether such an article would past LISTN is irrelevant - the point is that THIS article isn't THAT article. An encyclopedic article is NOT a collection of stuff one found on the internet. The event would NOT pass NEVENT, stop making things up. And as I already said, to the extent some padding is present in other articles of this sort, it needs to be removed there, not used as an excuse to justify more non-encyclopedic nonsense.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:20, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

I feel inspired to write Islamophobic attack of German school girls in Lublin - and I might. VM - you'll have to do better here. We have sources seeing this Islamophobic event as being rather relevant to Islamophobia in Poland. Counter to your false assertion - Islamophobia in the United States and Islamophobia in United Kingdom both contain such events. Your personal issues and opinions matter little if you are unable to back them up with sources. Icewhiz (talk) 10:39, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

I feel inspired to write Islamophobic attack of German school girls in Lublin - and I might. - go for it. What are you saying here exactly? It's hard to see this anything but some kind of a threat. "You reverted my POV edits on this article so I'm gonna go out all crazy and POV all over the place!". Ok. Your choice man.Volunteer Marek (talk) 10:42, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Passes NEVENT, Received attention from international media and ombudsmen. As for editing on this article - reflecting and including what NEWORGs and academic journal articles on Islamophobia in Poland write about - is not POV. We generally follow such top-notch English language sources. So far - your assertions of POV have not been backed up with any sources. Icewhiz (talk) 10:55, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

One can argue about the importance of any specific incident (and it would be a lengthy discussion, as incidents of this sort vary wildly); but the fact remains that incidents of this scale are already mentioned in other articles for all the usual reasons, and VM is yet to present a policy-based argument for why this article would be an exception. François Robere (talk) 11:37, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

References

Organised crime in Germany

Many of the clans are Musulman.

• Crime in Germany#Organised crime Xx236 (talk) 08:51, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/clan-kriminalitaet-103.html Xx236 (talk) 11:01, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

What did happen in Lublin

Two years ago one girl was spat at. A 42 years old man claimed his responsibility and obtained 10 months prison suspended for two years. He was punished for religious hatred, not racism. https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/wydarzenia/artykuly/587721,oplucie-muzulmanka-nastolatka-niemcy-lublin-wyrok.html Xx236 (talk) 10:53, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

When will be punished the Israeli man who spat at Polish ambassador? Was his spitting religious or racist? Polonophobia in Israel doesn't exist, why?

Xx236 (talk) 10:57, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

English language bias

Thgis page is about Poland. Poland is a real place, not a virtual image of English language mass media. Background and context is biased, because it is based on English language sources and US/UK facts. But Poland is situated a long way from US or UK. Poland has a long open border with Germany and many Poles work/live in Germany. Problems with immigrants and radicalization of German society (AdF) influence Poles. Germany tranfers many immigrants to Eastern Germany, ie. along the Polish border.Xx236 (talk) 09:06, 8 August 2019 (UTC) https://www.pch24.pl/incydenty-z-imigrantami-przy-granicy-polsko-niemieckiej--mundurowe-patrole-w-lubuskiem,40980,i.html immigrants visit Poland to have fun.Xx236 (talk) 09:08, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

You aren't seriously suggesting pch24.pl - "But others associated with the conservative wing of the Church —such as the website Fronda.pl and the bimonthly glossy magazine Polonia Christiana, online at PCh24.pl—have significantly contributed to stereotypical portraits of refugees, Arabs and Muslims" per journal article published in Patterns of Prejudice - as a source, are you?

As for your implication of bias - most of the sources presently used in the section (ignoring Al Jazeera which has another citation next to it) are by scholars based in Poland or Polish expats, the exception is possibly Dr. Kasia Narkowicz who lists Poland as a media topic she'll interview on + did research on Poland, however per her profile she studied in Sweden and the UK. Icewhiz (talk) 09:25, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

The Strange Death of Europe

Why isn't The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam labelled as islamophobic? Double standards - Poles are bad, British people good?Xx236 (talk) 12:31, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Do you have a revision suggestion? François Robere (talk) 11:46, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Edits by Icewhiz

It seems that the problem is crucial for the world. Almost 10,000 bytes added during few hours.Xx236 (talk) 13:43, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

I was motivated to write this article by editors - diff, diff claiming that Islamophobia is not racism and removing content (which I believe I authored myself - but was rather short (2.5K)) on the basis that "Islam is not a race. Islamophobia does not qualify as racism". I probably wouldn't have written this particular full-fledged article otherwise - but it definitely is a topic that merits an article and the research literature on this topic is actually quite good. In any event, this is definitely a topic that merits a well developed Wikipedia article. Icewhiz (talk) 14:46, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Please decide if you write a text about Islamophobia or racism: "ran an openly racist advertisement". Xx236 (talk) 13:46, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Icewhiz believes that Gowin is a PiS politician. This is an encyclopedia, not a garbage dump.Xx236 (talk) 13:49, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Israel and Islamophobia (why not Islamophobia in Israel?) is nore than three times shorter, even if Islamophobia isn't a real problem in Poland and is one in Israel. Xx236 (talk) 13:54, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński used metaphors - which metaphors? He spoke about real ilnesses. Measles is a problem in Europe, so Kaczynski was right. BTW - did Kaczynski say that Muslims brought the diseases? Xx236 (talk) 14:07, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

PiS politicians used falsified data - who has real data if many refugess use false identities? Xx236 (talk) 14:09, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Lublin - how Icewhiz manipulates

The Lublin criminal has been arrested and radically punished. I have quoted this information.Icewhiz misinforms the readers to suggest that such attacks are allowed in Poland. Icewhiz continues to list random selection of press articles without the context. Xx236 (talk) 14:00, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

@Xx236: You are welcome to add the conviction (though it seems only one person was convicted, and that nothing was done with the police who did not accept the girls' complaints? (the whole thing being opened as an investigation after the media storm AFAICT)). I am trying to stick to English language sources here for new additions - but if you have vetted the information in the Polish language source - go ahead and add it - you don't need me to do it for you.Icewhiz (talk) 14:25, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

WP:NPA. François Robere (talk) 11:29, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Yep, Xx236, please tone it down with the WP:ASPERSIONS. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 19:06, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Recent edits

This revert while claiming it was removing based on "not quite sure how an article about Islamophobia in Poland winds up being about antisemitism in Poland" (false assertion as much as what was removed didn't mention antisemitism + I'd suggest to VM - to actually read the multiple sources who make the connection), actually removed:

1. Information on the high rate of Islamophobia in Poland - sourced to journal article.
2. The Muslim community being well treated in the past (unlike other minorities) - sourced to journal article.
3. Relation of Islamophpobia to antisemitism and framework of racism - sourced to 2 journal article and an academic book.
4. Transnational transmission of Islamophobia from the UK to Poland - journal article.
5. Connection of mosque buliding conflicts in europe, and the migrant crisis to increating Islamophobia - sourced to a journal article.
6. Introducing odd tagging - discussed previously in the page - and not conforming to tag's documentation. Likewise tagging "many" with a "POV tag" - when the source says many - is unclear unless the source (Switat, Mustafa. "Arabic Community in Poland–Facts and Myths." Yearbook of Polish European Studies 19 (2016): 249-260. Switat, Mustafa. "Arabic Community in Poland–Facts and Myths." Yearbook of Polish European Studies 19 (2016): 249-260) is challenged on some relevant grounds.
7. Conflict over building the Ahmadiyya mosque in 2012 - sourced to two journal articles.
8. Information on Islamophobic discourse towards women - sourced - yet again - to a journal article (Narkowicz, Kasia, and Konrad Pędziwiatr. "Saving and fearing Muslim women in ‘post-communist’Poland: troubling Catholic and secular Islamophobia" Gender, Place & Culture 24.2 (2017): 288-299).
9. Information on PiS's use of Islamophobic discourse - sourced - yet again - to an academic book and journal article.
10. Early Islamophobia from 2006 (before it became mainstream in the governing party) - League of Polish Families - sourced - yet again to a journal article (Mareš, Miroslav. "The extreme right’s relationship with Islam and Islamism in East-Central Europe: From allies to enemies." East European Politics and Societies 28.1 (2014): 205-224).
11. wSieci's "rape of Europe" - sourced - to a few NEWSORGs (e.g. Washington Post) - and - yet again academic journal articles.
12. Use of Islamophobia in identity rap music - academic book.
13. Role of the Catholic church - and particularly tradionalist elements therein - again - sourced to several journal articles.
14. Attack on German school girls - sourced to BBC, Several other sources available - Talk:Islamophobia in Poland#Islamophobic incidents against German school girls.
15. National independence day march on 2017 with Islamophobic discourse. Covered by NEWSORGs as well as an European Islamophobia report.

On Wikipedia, we cover topics in the weight accorded to them in WP:RSes. If you are challenging this content on weight grounds - please present competing sources of a comparable quality (i.e. not media outlets described as Islamophobic) which present a different picture (and perhaps try to introduce them to the article). Icewhiz (talk) 11:58, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

1. The info is already in the article. It just doesn't belong in the lede, unattributed and based on a single study.
2. The info about Muslims being well treated is fine. It's the WP:COATRACK part that's UNDUE. You already know this so why are you asking again?
3. It's the WP:COATRACK part that's UNDUE. You already know this so why are you asking again?
4. That text is fine. This can go in.
5. That was never removed. Check your diff again. You're just not seeing it.
6. The tag is perfectly justified here as "many" is an ambigous claim.
7. Already discussed. Who the f is this Europa Przyszlosci? It's a guy with a website that no one's heard of. It's UNDUE unless context is provided. The text falsely pretends like this is some significant organization. This has already been discussed so why are you asking again?
8. If that paragraph is re-written in normal English rather than incomprehensible post-structuralist mumbo-jumbo it can be put back in.
9. Ditto, and also parts are off topic (I don't like PiS but this article isn't a place to air random grievances against them)
10. A dude wrote a blog post ten years ago. UNDUE.
11. Again, as already pointed out, a non-notable outlet so UNDUE.
12. and the rest - already discussed. You just went around and collected various Islamophobic incidents. But this article isn't a "List of Islamophobic Incidents in Poland". Most of this stuff is UNDUE.Volunteer Marek (talk) 15:48, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Grammar is not grounds for excision - fix it. While, your opinions on UNDUEness/COATRACK are certainly interesting - however we assess WP:DUE by weight of RSes covering the topic. In this particular context - WP:RSes on Polish Islamophobia have chosen to include this content - making your assertion that it is irrelevant (e.g. "Who the f is this", "A dude wrote a blog post", or your personal opinions on Polish antisemitism and Islamophobia) - baseless. We follow what RSes write on the topic. Any concrete challenge to the gravitas of the cited sources here ? Icewhiz (talk) 15:53, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Why are you referencing "grammar". None of my response says anything about grammar. And when you write about the "weight of RSes" what exactly are you referring to? The source or two that talks about the guy with the website? The fact that some guy wrote a blog post ten years ago? Volunteer Marek (talk) 06:03, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

I agree with VM that this isn't a list of Islamophobic incidents in Poland, but I'm not clear one why widely-reported incidents are UNDUE. Generally speaking, the choice of an example depends on both its coverage and notability; on whether it's representative of some aspect of a subject, and has illustrative value to the reader; and on whether it's clear and understandable. Most of these examples satisfy all three conditions. François Robere (talk) 18:27, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

These aren't "widely reported incidents". It's about some guy and his website and a couple things that don't satisfy WP:NOTNEWS.Volunteer Marek (talk) 06:03, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

These sources seem to meet WP:RS, and also seem to pertain to the subject of this article. They should be kept in, and if there are grammar issues, these should be fixed. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 19:02, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

They may be RS but that's a necessary not a sufficient criteria for inclusion. A lot of this stuff is off topic. A lot of it covers minor or trivial incidents. A lot of it is simply WP:NOTNEWS.Volunteer Marek (talk) 06:03, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

As the vast majority of items above are covered in academic journal articles several years after the events - e.g. noting League of Polish Families' early Islamophobic discourse (prior to this being mainstream PiS policy) from 2006 in a journal article from 2014 - the claim of of NOTNEWS is rather novel here and not grounded in Wikipedia policy. Icewhiz (talk) 06:32, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

There's nothing "novel" about it. 2014 is five year ago. Most of these incidents were covered once, then forgotten. As is standard with this kind of material, only the things which have had long lasting impact and notability should be included. This isn't some crazy notion, it's SOP. Also off-topic, minor, etc. etc. etc. Volunteer Marek (talk) 06:40, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

POV tag on rate of Islamophobia in Poland

Volunteer Marek - please provide sources justifying that research findings on the rate of Islamophobia in Poland is a "POV statement". Your personal opinions on Muslims and hate discourse in Poland matter little on Wikipedia - please provide actual recent sources that dispute this finding. This is sourced to Patterns of Prejudice (a well respected journal) as well as a finding on Poland vs. eight countries in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Both sources are top-notch academic sources which cover Islamophobia in Poland. Actual sources please - and not sources such as pch24.pl (suggested by an editor here, described as Islamophobic by academic sources). If you are unable to provide sources covering Polish Islamophobia in a different manner - then your assertion of POV is groundless. Icewhiz (talk) 06:28, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Icewhiz, I'd be more inclined to take your concerns seriously if you didn't word your requests in such an obviously bad-faithed, misleading, disingenuous manner. Look at this:

Volunteer Marek - please provide sources justifying that research findings on the rate of Islamophobia in Poland is a "POV statement".

Your personal opinions on Muslims and hate discourse in Poland matter little on Wikipedia

You have no freakin' idea what my "personal opinions on Muslims and hate discourse" are so where the hey do you get off attributing such to me? In your typical Icewhizzian manner you've resorted to underhanded insinuations again, just like you've tried to do at the ArbCom page. Stop referring to what YOU think or imagine or pretend to think or imagine what MY "personal opinions" are. Discuss content and not editors.

As for the "research findings" - attributing potentially controversial statements is Wikipedia policy not a "personal opinion", and that's all I'm asking for here. Stop pretending this is something it's not.Volunteer Marek (talk) 15:35, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Mainstream research published in top-notch journals - no reason to believe they are controversial (they are inline with every other academic source on the topic). Any actual sources to back up your personal opinions on Poland, Muslims, and Islamophobia and potential controversy here? Icewhiz (talk) 15:45, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

The statement itself is controversial. All that is being asked here is that it be attributed. I don't know why you are stubbornly refusing such a simple, straight forward and routine thing.Volunteer Marek (talk) 02:52, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Almost every statement you'd make on a subject like this will be disagreed by someone; it does not make it "controversial" in the Wiki sense (see WP:WIKIVOICE). François Robere (talk) 16:42, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes, we need sources here to back up claims. I find Icewhiz's sources to meet WP:RS, so we need a substantial counter-argument through RSs that explain why the tag needs to remain. Failing this, tag should be removed. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 18:54, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

POV tag on Jaskulowski and Pędziwiatr

A POV tag has been placed on content sourced to a an academic book chapter on Polish Islamophobia published by Palgrave Macmillan. And an academic journal article published in Patterns of Prejudice which covers (per keywords): anti-Muslim racism, Islamophobia, and Muslim Others. Both academic sources, which are clearly on topic, see fit to frame current Polish Islamophobic in relation to traditional Polish antisemitism. Volunteer Marek - please articulate on what grounds you deem the publishers and/or academic scholars - Konrad Pędziwiatr (Professor at the Department of European Studies (Cracow University of Economics) and a researcher in the Centre of Migration Research (University of Warsaw)) and Krzysztof Jaskulowski (dr. hab, professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities) - to be POV? Icewhiz (talk) 06:38, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

The tag, as you well know, contains the explanation already. You've taken the article on Islamophobia in Poland and basically tried to turn it into a WP:COATRACK on anti-semitism in Poland. This has already been explained before [33] so why are you pretending you don't know what the issue is and asking the question?

Additionally you STILL haven't explained why you inserted false information into the article [34] and pretended falsely that sources supported the false text? Volunteer Marek (talk) 15:38, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

I've done nothing of the sort - I've done a literature search on Islamophobia+Poland - and placed information in the article based on several academic journals. You are challenging work by two Polish academics as POV - please provide a clear rationale why you consider this published research POV - and do back up your claims with actual sources. To date - you haven't provided a single source to support any of your arguments here. The personal opinion of a random Wikipedia editor amounts to close to nothing. Sources please.Icewhiz (talk) 15:48, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

As above, we need RSs. Failing to provide a substantial counter-argument through RSs, POV tag should be removed. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 18:55, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

You've taken the article on Islamophobia in Poland and basically tried to turn it into a WP:COATRACK on anti-semitism in Poland It's a 2,400 word article with only 6-7 mentions of antisemitism - not much of a WP:COATRACK. François Robere (talk) 19:01, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

It's fine if it's mentioned (and I have kept a part of it in) but the mentions of it are peppered throughout the article which is what makes it a WP:COATRACK.Volunteer Marek (talk) 02:53, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

It is mentioned when sources mention it - as they do in several different contexts.Icewhiz (talk) 03:56, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

No, it's throughout the article, sometimes in a redundant way in a pretty obvious attempt to WP:COATRACK the article on Islamophobia in Poland into one about anti-semitism. Can you please and at least try to compromise, work collaboratively and/or participate in good faithed discussion in a constructive way?Volunteer Marek (talk) 06:04, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

You just made repeated claims that the guy tried to mislead us all by passing one article for another "under the radar". How "good faithed" is that? François Robere (talk) 16:44, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

anti-Muslim racism? Islam converts using force, so there is no Islamist race. If some idiots believe they should fight non-existing Muslim race, are they notable? Xx236 (talk) 11:29, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

PiS - Ilnesses and racism

If you vaccinate before a travel is it racist or rational? What exactly did Kaczynski say about races, I can't find such words. People die of measles in Europe, so Kaczynski was more or less right. "Four in ten people diagnosed with HIV in Europe are migrants" says - no, not Kaczynski but aidsmap http://www.aidsmap.com/news/jun-2015/four-ten-people-diagnosed-hiv-europe-are-migrants . Polish health service is one of the worst in Europe, do we need ill immigrants? Does your source say anything about connection between Islam and ilnesses? This page isn't about racism, this page isn't about evil Poles, it is about Islamophobia. I understand that you need bludgeons to attack Polish people, but the bludgeons have be exactly Islamophobic. Xx236 (talk) 11:21, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Sources:

1. Pickel, Gert, and Cemal Öztürk. "Islamophobia Without Muslims? The “Contact Hypothesis” as an Explanation for Anti-Muslim Attitudes–Eastern European Societies in a Comparative Perspective." Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics 12.2 (2018): 162-191. - "Furthermore, Kaczyński regarded Muslims as a ‘menace for public health’ as immigrants come along with diseases and parasites"
2. Greenhill, Kelly M. "Open arms behind barred doors: fear, hypocrisy and policy schizophrenia in the European migration crisis." European Law Journal 22.3 (2016): 317-332. "For his part, Polish Law and Justice Party official and former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned that Muslim refugees would bring parasites and diseases to the local population".
3. The Everyday Politics of Migration Crisis in Poland, page 41 (which was cited in the article) - refers to "biological differences, "Nazi rhetoric", and "bacterial immigration". This is under a sub-chapter heading - 3.4 Towards Islamophobic Hegemony.

Per sources above - diff removing this with the rationale "not about Islam" seems spurious. Seems this statement is seen as directed at Muslim immigrants. Icewhiz (talk) 14:48, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Protected edit request 14 August 2019

Date maintenance tags added in this edit on 11 August 2019. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:22, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

 Done — xaosflux ^Talk 19:06, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Jewish media spread Islamophobia in Poland

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/antisemitism-news/history-repeating-itself-in-warsaw-people-stand-by-as-jews-are-beaten/2019/09/08/?fbclid=IwAR0HPGHdRGu7tk3lO10K6PyU3T0n_3QFnA_yf8ukVNkJqPM2SokWnV7YFo4 Xx236 (talk) 13:12, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

The cited source does not support the assertion. I will note I was mildly tickled to read this piece in tysol.pl - complaining that Israeli media did not report (or stress) the Arab nationality of the alleged attackers enough. Icewhiz (talk) 13:25, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Two sources or one?

References 1 and 2 quoted in the lead are by Pędziwiatr. The Lead should summarize the page rather than to quote something.Xx236 (talk) 13:13, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Not a quotation. Two separate papers (one with a co-author, different journals), different cited studies. Pędziwiatr is one of the top academic experts on Islamophobia in Poland (a pretty specialized field with a small subset of researchers) Icewhiz (talk) 13:27, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

• Icewhiz, please anser hwo we write leads.
• If Pędziwiatr writes 100 articles, will you list all of them?Xx236 (talk) 13:30, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Pedziwiatr has connections with Turkey. Does it make him more democratic and free than the majority of Poles?Xx236 (talk) 07:18, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Korwin-Mikke

I don't have the alleged picture but Korwin-Mike is a libertarian, he criticizes economic immigration. He is also against sharia in Poland. He said "negroes", we didn't know what he wanted to tell, if he understood PC problem. He doesn't care, he uses his own language.Xx236 (talk) 13:23, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

The description confirms that the migration is mentioned, not Islam (page 41). Xx236 (talk) 13:28, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

One video in the genre ???

Which video? Either you identify the video or we remove the phrase. Any internet portal (FB, Twitter) has its policy. The capitalists aren't moral judges. to define what is wrong.Xx236 (talk) 07:16, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Poor quality of writing on Introductory page

The end section of the introductory page is poorly written. It cites the wrong sources and it is written by someone clearly propagating an agenda. This is wrong and harms the Wikipedia reputation of free and unbiased trade of information. Jacko3445 (talk) 18:46, 2 October 2023 (UTC)