Warning: Orientalist paintings depicting female nudity follow. Last year, a political party in Germany provoked controversy when it used the following painting in its election campaign to illustrate one of the reasons it was against immigration. Painted in France in 1866 and titled "Slave Market," the painting was described as "show[ing] a black, apparently Muslim slave trader displaying a naked young woman with much lighter skin to a group of men for examination," probably in North Africa. The Alternative for Germany party (AfD) put up several posters of this painting with the slogan, "So that Europe won't become Eurabia."  Many on both sides of the Atlantic were triggered by this usage; even the American museum where the original painting is housed sent AfD a letter "insisting that they cease and desist in using this painting" (even though it is in the public domain). Objectively speaking, the "Slave...(Read Full Article)