Bikers blasting music at a Kaunas mosque during prayers, posted as 'patriots' at work.
On Friday, September 11, a group of bikers gathered outside the Kaunas mosque in Lithuania during Friday prayers, chanting "Lithuania", playing loud music and reportedly holding up the head of a pig. On September 11 RadioGenoa posted video of the Kaunas action on X, captioned: "Lithuanian patriots and motorcyclists blast loud music outside Kaunas mosque while prayers are taking place." The caption carries no criticism of the men and no word for the Muslim worshippers inside. It presents the disruption as something patriots did. The post was seen 2,432,167 times.
Patriots is a word of praise, and the post spends it on men who drove to a mosque to drown out prayers and leave a pig's head. The people at worship are the ones the noise was for, and the post gives them no name at all; they are the target of an action described as patriotic. That is hostility to Muslim people for being at prayer, shared as a thing to admire.
The pig's head settles it. Loud music might pass as protest; a pig's head at a mosque is an insult aimed at the religion of the people inside, and the post's word for the men who brought it is patriots. A fair-minded reader should take the framing as approval, and weigh it against a reach of 2.4 million views.
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RadioGenoa (X)
"Lithuanian patriots and motorcyclists blast loud music outside Kaunas mosque while prayers are taking place."
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