African footballers. Danish host compares Moroccan players to Monkeys. A danish television channel came under serious criticism after the host compared Moroccan players and their mothers to monkeys on live television and has now issued an apology.
TV 2 News showed a segment in which the anchor, Soren Lippert, held up an image of monkeys embracing while talking about Morocco’s national team players hugging their mothers.
Why did the Danish host compare the Moroccan players to monkeys?
While trying to make a “smooth” transition from a story with photos of Moroccan players hugging their mothers during the World Cup 2022 in Qatar,, the next news segment that cam up was about monkeys and unintentionally compared them. The incident drew the attention of Internet users.
Even though the Danish TV station officially apologised for airing perceived disrespectful comments comparing Moroccan national football team players and their families to monkeys, anger fuelled by the incident is not even close to over, with netizens continuously commenting on the issue, expressing their indignation.
The host of TV 2 NEWS was talking about players and their families, and then proceeded to the next news section about monkeys and how they gather to keep warm with a picture of the animals being displayed.
Later, the channel apologised, saying the comment was “wrong and offensive,” and could be “perceived as a racist” one. The presenter who was holding a picture of monkeys apologised for the incident, but said he wasn’t the one who expressed “the inappropriate remark.” The host who made the offensive transition, in turn, as cited by the broadcaster, offered an apology for his comments, underlining that it wasn’t his intention to draw such a wrong comparison.
There was a myriad of touching scenes of the national team celebrating their historic journey at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar and many described them as rare positive reflection Arab culture from the Western World.
The Moroccan team made history at the World Cup becoming the first African and Arab nation to reach the semi-finals. The team has experienced a volley of racist and Islamophobic attacks from Western media.
The report added that earlier another Western outlet published a caricature showing Moroccans in tracksuits on a motorbike ‘stealing’ the World cup trophy from Gianni Infantino, in what many described as a racist European stereotype of North Africans being ‘thugs’ and ‘criminals’.
A German TV anchor also sparked outrage online after his vile comparison of the Moroccan team with the Islamic State Militant Group (ISIS). We wrote about it here: ‘Racist and dangerous’: German news anchor compares Moroccan players to ISIS members.
The anchor showed an image of three national players happy after an amazing World Cup Game in which they raised their index fingers. This is a common gesture for billions of Muslims around the world who praise God by professing the concept of Tawhid, or ‘Oneness’. However, the anchor likened the players to ISIS, claiming the gesture caused “irritation”.
The segment that was broadcast to millions was widely shared online and social media user were quick to call out the brazen racism targeting the African country’s players wrote Dohanews.
while trying to make a “smooth” transition from a story with photos of Moroccan players hugging their mothers during the World Cup 2022 in Qatar to the next news segment about monkeys, unintentionally compared them. The incident drew the attention of Internet users.
Even though the Danish TV station officially apologized for airing perceived disrespectful comments comparing Moroccan national football team players and their families to monkeys, anger fueled by the incident is not even close to over, with netizens continuously commenting on the issue, expressing their indignation.
The host of TV 2 NEWS was talking about players and their families, and then proceeded to the next news section about monkeys and how they gather to keep warm with a picture of the animals being displayed.
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