Far-Right Belgian Politician Apologizes for Offensive Moroccan Comparison

An elected member of the Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang was forced to apologize after publishing an image on Moroccans that she had posted a few days before the elections held in Belgium.
Comparing Moroccans to E.T., the extraterrestrial, the name of the film by Steven Spielberg released in 1982, Nathalie Dewulf writes: "four good reasons why E.T. is better than a Moroccan": "he came alone, he already had a bike, he learned our language and he wanted to go home". Elected to the House since then, she now speaks of a stupid joke.
Claiming to have seen it several times before on social media, she believes it was just a joke. "But if I have hurt people with this, I want to apologize. I didn’t want to, that’s why I removed the image in the meantime," wrote the one who is
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