Germans Protest Anti-Islamist Rally as Landmarks Go Dark
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Germans took to the streets to protest against anti-Islamist rallies in the eastern city of Dresden, which grew to a record size even as Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the nation to shun racism.
About 18,000 people marched through Dresden yesterday night in the latest weekly rally backed by organizers who call themselves Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, or Pegida. The group says it’s for stricter immigration and asylum laws, protecting“western culture” and avoiding “parallel societies” of Muslims in Germany.