Posted on 01/18/2015 11:58:32 AM PST by Steelfish
Anti-Islam Rally in German City Dresden Canceled Over Threat BERLIN — Jan 18, 2015 By GEIR MOULSON
A weekly rally by a German group protesting what it calls "the Islamization of the West" was called off on Sunday because of a terrorist threat against one of its organizers, the group and authorities said.
The group calling itself PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, has organized rallies every Monday in the eastern German city of Dresden. Last week's event drew the biggest crowd yet, with police estimating some 25,000 people attended.
PEGIDA said on its Facebook page that this Monday's rally was called off for security reasons because, according to police, "there is a concrete threat against a member of the organization team."
Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll said in a statement that there was a "concrete" threat connected to a member of the PEGIDA team and Monday's demonstration. In view of that, he issued an order barring any rallies in the city on Monday.
Kroll said there had been a call for attackers to mingle with the demonstrators and kill one of the protest organizers. He didn't specify where the threat came from, or if any group was behind it, but said it resembled an Arabic-language Tweet describing PEGIDA as an "enemy of Islam."
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They used to be. The Germans I know (and I know quite a few) are nothing but a bunch of pansy PC leftists who gloat about what they’re doing for “the world” and will call you a xenophobe if you dare talk about immigration levels in Europe or the US/Canada.
Merkel and the Muslims won’t have any of that “free speech” stuff going on...
Once burned, twice shy?
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