Berlin – German Minister Calls For Anti-Islam Rally To Be Canceled

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    FILE - Participants take part in a demonstration called by anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West", in Dresden January 5, 2015. ReutersBerlin – Germany’s justice minister is calling on organizers of anti-Islam rallies in Dresden to cancel a planned protest Monday out of respect for the victims of the terror attacks in France.

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    The weekly rallies are organized by a group called the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or Pegida. They often accuse mainstream media of lying about immigration and other issues.

    Organizers of Monday’s demonstration have asked participants to wear black ribbons to honor the victims of three days of terror in Paris that started with an attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

    But Justice Minister Heiko Maas told newspaper Bild on Sunday that the rally should be canceled, saying it’s “simply disgusting” that organizers want to commemorate victims “that last week they still insulted as lying journalists.”


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    Yaakov2
    Yaakov2
    9 years ago

    Good excuse.

    He’s just too scared.

    9 years ago

    They are afraid of being called Nazis, just one difference: Jews did not shed blood of germans and these groups can shed german blood.

    9 years ago

    Yuo know what, it’s nice of them to ask not to rally, but freedom of speech will be kept