Merkel tells Germans not to attend anti-Islam rallies [View all]
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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