Thousands join anti-Islam rally as Germany worries about image

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Berlin (AFP) - Thousands of people joined a march by the German anti-Islamisation PEGIDA movement on Sunday, the group's first rally since threats surfaced against the group and its leader resigned over "Hitler" photos.
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The new demonstration in Dresden came after Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier voiced concern that the group's anti-Muslim sentiments were harming Germany's image.
Police estimated that 17,000 people had turned up for the rally.
Many carried signs saying "They don't do anything, they move here and they deal", "For a sovereign country", "Honest people, get up at last" and "Thank you Pegida".
There were also chants of "We are the people", a reference to the spontaneous movements that preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Sunday's rally was the first since PEGIDA's founder and leader Lutz Bachmann stepped down on January 21 after a photo of him with a Hitler-style haircut and moustache appeared on Facebook, along with racist slurs.
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It was also the first since a rally was cancelled in Dresden after threats were made against Bachmann and other leaders of the self-styled "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident".
PEGIDA marches -- which have voiced anger against Islam and "criminal asylum seekers" -- began with several hundred supporters in October and have since steadily grown, drawing a record 25,000 people on January 12 just after the Paris Islamist attacks.
"We are not against Muslims who want to work in Germany, we are not neo-Nazis. But those who want to live in Germany should adapt to the reality of the country," 57-year-old Gabriele Schoenherr told AFP at the rally.
Steinmeier said Germany underestimates the damage caused by "PEGIDA's xenophobic and racist slogans and placards".
International scrutiny makes "it all the more important that we say clearly and strongly that PEGIDA does not speak in Germany's name," he said in an interview with daily newspaper Bild.
He also said that mobilising crowds with attacks on scapegoats like immigrants and asylum seekers was "easier than by (raising) complex subjects like insufficient infrastructure or the ageing of the population."
The movement has also prompted anti-PEGIDA protests in Germany.
On Saturday, Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims, condemned the increasing Islamaphobic attacks in Germany, including "insults" against veiled women, mosques "vandalised" and violence against imams.


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[PatColo]

I'll drop this KBarrett article here, in lieu of finding or starting a more appropriate thread! :cool:

Iran’s Supreme Leader to Western youth: “Think for yourself!” (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/21/khamenei/)

By Kevin Barrett (http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/barrett/) on January 21, 2015 free thought (http://www.veteranstoday.com/tag/free-thought/), islam (http://www.veteranstoday.com/tag/islam/), Islamophobia (http://www.veteranstoday.com/tag/islamophobia/), khamenei (http://www.veteranstoday.com/tag/khamenei/), propaganda (http://www.veteranstoday.com/tag/propaganda/), religion (http://www.veteranstoday.com/tag/religion/), Science (http://www.veteranstoday.com/tag/science/) Iran (http://www.veteranstoday.com/category/world-global/middle-east-issues/iran/) http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/themes/_stylebook/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veteranstoday.co m%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F01%2F1khamenei_quran_2_ by_khamenei_ir-d4dh97v.jpg&q=90&w=795&h=470&zc=1
Iran’s Supreme Leader says: Pop the Islamophobic propaganda bubble and think for yourself!


^ didn't paste well; read it at VT: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/21/khamenei/

[PatColo]

Zionist-controlled media seeking to destroy religions: Scholar (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/23/nwo/)


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Watch the video at Press TV (http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/21/394155/Zionist-media-seeking-to-destroy-religions)

Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:27PM


Kevin Barrett




The Zionist-controlled media in the United States is seeking to “destroy” Islam and Christianity while promoting a “clash of civilizations,” an American scholar and journalist in Wisconsin says.



Radical secularists want to create a new world order in which religions are mocked and freedom of speech is considered sacred, said Dr. Kevin Barrett, a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance.


“The Zionist-dominated media here in the United states is helping foment a clash of civilizations against Islam, but which is secretly designed not only to destroy Islam, but also Christianity,” Barrett told Press TV on Wednesday.


A new survey suggests that a relative majority of Americans believe it is acceptable to ridicule Islam, highlighting the depth of anti-Islamic sentiment and widespread Islamophobia in the United States.


According to the HuffPost/YouGov survey, 46 percent of Americans thought it was acceptable to mock Islam, while 44 percent said it was unacceptable to mock Christianity, a consequence of the “Islamophobia project” promoted by US media outlets.


Moreover, 63 percent of Americans said it is more important to protect the freedom of speech than to protect the sanctity of religious beliefs. Only 19 percent said the sanctity of religious beliefs was more important than free speech and 18 percent were not sure.


The survey was taken shortly after 12 people were killed in an attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. The French magazine has repeatedly provoked Muslim anger by publishing cartoons of the Prophet of Islam.


The Western media is “spinning this Charlie Hebdo affair, which actually appears to have been a false flag event created to unleash all this propaganda,” Barrett said.


“They’re doing this in order to try to get rid of the sacred from society and to put new sacred values in place of the traditional sacred values of traditional religions,” he noted.


The media is trying to replace sacred religious values in Western societies with immorality, homosexuality, incest, blasphemy and destructive free speech, Barrett concluded.


AHT/GJH

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/23/nwo/

[singular_me]

working as planned. BUT flirting with chaos is always a double edged sword... we must go through it to see as to whether earthians deserve a chance.

[Norweger]

Good goyim.

[Spectrism]

Stepping into islam is like stepping into dogshit. Founded by a pedaphile murderous land pirate, what could possibly go wrong? Well.... everything.

Instead of looking at the topic of how islam is a murderous cult form of government, some bozos here blame the joos. Now that makes a whole lot of sense. Or... it was the crusades that made the moslems seek freedom and revenge. I am thinking the crusades didn't go far enough.

Freedom of religion is fine, until you have something called a religion that insists on stamping out all others.

[PatColo]

^ typical joo screeching, seeking to deflect & project.... :rolleyes:



Freedom of religion is fine, until you have something called a religion that insists on stamping out all others (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/23/nwo/).


Jewish Talmudic Quotes - Facts Are Facts (http://rense.com/general86/talmd.htm)

[Spectrism]

^ typical joo screeching, seeking to deflect & project.... :rolleyes:


Every question and every answer to you is JOOS. If you had the decency to look at the topic of this thread, you would see it is about ISLAM in Germany. I already know that you are blinded and perverted. Constant moronic hate for joos and love for islam make you a moron in my book. Anyone that can defend the practice of islam is one sick puppy.

[PatColo]

Every question and every answer to me is SCARY MOOZLEMS. [...] Constant moronic hate for MOOZLEMS and love for JOOZ shows me to be a joo moron. Anyone that can defend the practice of JOODUHISM, like me, is one sick puppy.

see, sometimes you post something intelligent!


Stepping into JOODUHISM is like stepping into jooshit.

Instead of looking at the topic of how JOODUHISM is a trans-generational organized crime cult; some bozos here like me, deflect & project, blaming the SCARY MOOZLEMS. Now that makes a whole lot of sense. JOOZ seek enslavement of humanity.

Freedom of religion is fine, until you have something called a religion that insists on stamping out all others (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/23/nwo/).

bravo ^ :D

[singular_me]

all religions (cults enforced by the state for the masses) written by man are deceptions

Secret Vatican: The Creation of Prophet Muhammad
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican33.htm

[Spectrism]

all religions (cults enforced by the state for the masses) written by man are deceptions

Secret Vatican: The Creation of Prophet Muhammad
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican33.htm

And yet you practice the primary-sponsored state religion of secular humanism.