Merkel tells Germans not to attend anti-Islam rallies

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Source: AP

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Dec. 31, 2014 7:21 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday warned the country's citizens not to participate in weekly anti-Islam rallies that have attracted growing numbers of supporters in the eastern German city of Dresden.

Merkel condemned the organizers of the protests and said they were driven by prejudices and hatred against foreigners.

The chancellor used unusually direct words in her New Year's speech on Wednesday for the rallies organized by a group calling itself Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA which have been attended by thousands.

When the protesters chant "we are the people," they actually mean to say "you don't belong — because of your religion or your skin color," Merkel said.



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Angela,

[jakeXT]

1. This whole thing reminds me of "The Interview"

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

Oscar Wilde

[tiny elvis]

2. merkel supports cheap labor and lowering living standards

by any means
neoliberals are not racists, to be sure
a flood of immigration into an already full and developed nation is a weapon against labor
capital's claims of humanitarian motives are incredible by nature
the sincerity in condemnation of the aborigine on behalf of the newcomer should be studied
it is the capitalist neoliberal condemnation of dissent against floods of cheap labor
that puts racist nationalists in the forefront of protest

[Rhinodawg]

3. Riiiiight Angela...Good Luck with that.

lol

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. I applaud her for trying to tamp down the bigotry.

[Rhinodawg]

5. Wow...

Did you applaud her when she said this?

Merkel says German multicultural society has failed

"And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other... has failed, utterly failed."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11559451

[Rhinodawg]

6. OMT.

IN 10 WEEKS, it went to 17,000 protestors.

[freshwest]

7. Have you got the name of the Telegraph article the pic came from? I like to read UK views on Europe.

[Rhinodawg]

8. Whew....found it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11295440/Dresden-marchers-fan-anti-Islam-flames-in-Germany.html

[freshwest]

9. Thanks I read all UK links I can get. Their take is much different than ours, and they are closer to

the situations and have much more diversity of views, IMO.