German journalist reveals: 'German broadcaster WDR had to be positive about refugees'.

German WDR journalist Claudia Zimmermann reveals: 'German broadcaster had to be positive about refugees'. (HLN)[GoogleTranslated].

Journalists of the German broadcaster WDR have been instructed to broadcast positive messages about the refugees. This claimed Claudia Zimmermann, journalist of the WDR in Aachen, on the Dutch radio program 'The Mood'.

Committees that determine the government policy in broadcasting have given journalist orders to support the Merkel government policy.

According to Zimmerman this was especially true during the initial phase of the so-called 'Wilkommenskultur'  of a positive approach to the refugee issue by the TV station.

"We are a public broadcaster that is paid for with tax money," said the journalist. "It is therefore not surprising that we interpret the sound of the government."

After the mass rapes in Cologne and other German cities things changed. "Now let's hear critical voices," says Zimmerman. According to her, in Germany does not constitute a so-called 'silent cartel.

"Bewildered and  perplexed WDR has  responded and contradicted the claims of the freelance collaborator. "Our journalists work completely independently," said spokeswoman Ingrid Schmitz.

Zimmerman for her part, has come back on her earlier statements after the reaction of WDR. "Under pressure from the live event that one radio program entails, I mouthed nonsense," she hinted.

Germany's SPD: "We need a multi-billion-euro package to integrate refugees in Germany"

You can't integrate oil into Water.

Germany's SPD: "We need a multi-billion-euro package to integrate refugees in Germany". (DS).

Germany needs to raise spending on police, education and daycare by at least 5 billion euros ($5.45 billion) to successfully integrate a record number of asylum seekers and avoid social tensions, its deputy government leader said Monday.

Speaking after a meeting of senior Social Democrats (SPD), the coalition partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said Berlin must avoid social strife in light of the rising numbers of mainly Muslim refugees.

"We can only manage the double task of integration, namely accommodating the new arrivals and also preserving the cohesion of our society, if we have a strong state capable of acting," said Gabriel, SPD party leader and economy minister.

He called for a joint effort by the federal and state governments as well as municipalities to share the task of integrating the hundreds of thousands of refugees whose asylum applications are approved.

"We need an additional 9,000 police in Germany, 25,000 new teachers and 15,000 daycare workers," Gabriel said. He also called for a doubling of funds for public housing to avoid a shortage of affordable housing in urban areas.

"The costs for this integration package are around five billion euros and government, federal states and municipalities have to agree on who exactly will do what."

His proposal is likely to be approved at a planned summit of federal and state governments in the coming months. Hmmm........Good luck with that one. Read the full story here.

Rhine town Rheinberg cancels Carnival parade following Cologne assaults

Rhine town Rheinberg cancels Carnival parade following Cologne assaults. (SP).

The western German town of Rheinberg has canceled next week’s carnival procession to one of its suburbs due to heightened risks of assaults by refugees, the Rheinberg municipal office said on Monday.

Jonny Strey, head of the department for security and order: In addition to the traffic and possibly rowdy spectators there's also a refugee camp with 500 inhabitants considered to be a "danger point" Strey said.  He confirmed a report of the "Rheinische Post".

People in the refugee camp would know no carnival and possibly bring "wrong" behavior, Strey said. 4500 German to meet up to 500 foreigners, "which is also not yet been there," he said. "Since [the carnival organizer] OKK, given the short time available until the Monday before Lent, was not able to create an appropriate safety concept, it has withdrawn its application for approval of a Rose Monday procession in Orsoy," the Rheinberg clerk’s office said in a press release.

The city maintained that "there has not been a rejection of the Rose procession through the city of Rheinberg on Monday."

"Due to the current events in the context of immigrants, in particular the events in Cologne and other major cities, interference cannot be ruled out in particular by intoxicated persons in the vicinity of the central housing unit," the clerk’s office added. Hmmm.........To strike terror in German hearts was the goal at NY Eve ....it worked.

Former German police officer Nick Hein says: " Cologne gang has no fear".

Former German police officer Nick Hein says: " Cologne gang has no fear".(smh).

Cologne: With a new police report blaming predominantly north African migrants for the horrific sexual assaults and robberies at Cologne's train station on New Year's Eve, one man is not surprised.

Former police officer Nick Hein says on his facebook page that a migrant crime gang was operating with impunity at the station, in the knowledge that they could not lose their refugee status.

Mr Hein wrote on Facebook on Sunday that he was a policeman for more than 11 years, and in the last three of those he had shifts at the main train station in Cologne.

"It was a special place," he said. "You saw the depths of humanity – drugs, organised theft, asylum seekers and suicide."

But pickpocketing was "by far the biggest crime phenomenon at Cologne central station", he said.

"It was almost always the same group of offenders – north African asylum seekers."

Mr Hein said the obvious question was "how can an asylum seeker commit crimes without fear of being deported"?

The answer, he said, was article 53 of Germany's Residence Act, which allows foreigners to be deported but only in serious cases – crimes punishable by at least three years' imprisonment.

"This is unbelievable to me," Mr Hein wrote. Read the full story here.

Related: Outcry of a young German female police commissioner: 'Male Muslims have no respect for female cops or Authority'.

German police deploy water cannon to disperse PEGIDA protesters amid clashes in Cologne

German police deploy water cannon to disperse rapist PEGIDA protesters amid clashes in Cologne. (RT).

Police in the western German city of Cologne have broken up a protest by the "anti-Islamization" group PEGIDA. Water cannon were used to disperse demonstrators protesting after the New Year's Eve attacks on women.

Police on Saturday moved to disband the crowd of protesters after bottles and crackers were thrown at officers.

The North Rhine-Westphalian chapter of the anti-migration PEGIDA group and other far-right organizations called the demonstration in the wake of a series of sexual assaults and robberies targeting women in the inner city of Cologne on New Year's Eve.

“Merkel must go” was another popular rallying cry with the demonstrators. The far-right supporters are infuriated with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her soft stance on refugees, and statements that the country could accept over a million asylum seekers.

Supporters of PEGIDA were met by a counter-demonstration from leftist groups and activists. The two rival factions were kept apart by a large police presence.

The anti-PEGIDA supporters chanted “Nazi pigs” and “Nazi’s out.” One slogan on a sign held by a demonstrator read: “There is nothing right about Nazi propaganda,” while another stated: “Fascism is not an opinion, it is a crime,” AFP reported.

Eyewitnesses said most of the offenders looked to be of North African or Arab origin. The incidents have fueled xenophobic sentiment in some quarters of German society, as the country struggles to cope with a huge influx of refugees and migrants, most of them coming from the Middle East and Africa.

Flashmob for women's rights.

Earlier in the day, several hundred women gathered in front of the cathedral in Cologne, situated near the central train station where the attacks mostly took place, to protest against violence to women (top photo).

They carried banners bearing slogans such as "No means no. That is our law. Keep off us," according to a reporter from AFP news agency.

The flashmob was called by women's groups on the Internet.

DPA news agency reported that some 1,000 people also demonstrated against both racism and sexism, with speakers warning against exploiting the New Year's Eve attacks to fuel xenophobic sentiment. Read the full story here.

Swiss artist Milo Moiré protest naked at #Cologne Dom: "We are not fair game . Even if we are naked'' #Germany pic.twitter.com/vArKuVCfGM

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) January 9, 2016

'Sign of the Times?' - 'Mein Kampf' sells out in Germany on first release day .

'Sign of the Times?' - 'Mein Kampf' sells out in Germany on first release day. (JPost).

Demand for a new edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” has far exceeded supply on its first day of release.

Publishers of the 2,000-page annotated edition of the Nazi leader’s book said at a press conference Friday, the day of the book’s release, that they have received orders for four times as many books as they had printed, Reuters reported.

The Munich Institute for Contemporary History has said it published the new edition to preempt uncritical and unannotated versions, and that it hopes the new edition will help destroy the book’s cult status. “Mein Kampf” can also be easily found on the Internet.

“Mein Kampf” sold 12 million copies in Germany before the end of World War II, according to Reuters. Hmmm......I wonder how many downloads it had recently? Read the full story here.

Germany - Cologne police have arrested TWO Suspects in the Silvester sexual assault cases.

Germany - Cologne police have arrested TWO Suspects in the Silvester sexual assault cases. (HLN)[GoogleTranslated].

German police have arrested two suspects who would have been involved in assaults and robberies of many women and girls around New Year in the center of Cologne. Broadcaster WDR reported Friday. Police have not yet confirmed this.

It involves two men with a migrant background "who were present during the violence and have captured on their mobile cell phones images. They also have established some basic knowledge of German. There were among others the Arabic texts "beautiful breasts", "I will kill you" and "I want to have sex with you" translated into German.

The police have so far 21 suspects in mind. There are 170 declarations of assault and theft of which 117 declarations made ​​in relation to sexual assaults.

Related:

Outcry of German female commissioner, 'Male Muslims have no respect for female cops or Authority'.

Video - German public broadcaster ZDF: Islamic immigrants - Effects on Germany.(English subtitled).

German public broadcaster ZDF important and sobering documentary that clearly illustrates how catastrophic islam and non-Western immigration, has been, and still very much is, for Germany

Video - Footage showing the chaos at Cologne Station and Church at Sylvester night

Video - New years eve 2015, Immigrant riots in Cologne Germany - Alleged eyewitness account.

An eyewitness account by Ivan Jurcevic, a hotel club bouncer, what happened on 31th of december 2015 right in front of the cologne cathedral (Kölner Dom). Mass media coverage started only after countless woman and girls posted how they were chased by an immigrant mob and sexually assaulted, on a official page of cologne over at facebook.

Koln - Eighty German women sexually assaulted by group of men of “Arab or North African origin”.

Koln - eighty German women sexually assaulted by group of  men of “Arab or North African origin”. (NA).

GERMAN police has described a series of sexual assaults against women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve as “a completely new dimension of crime”.

Officers received numerous complaints from women who said they had been assaulted around Cologne’s main train station next to the western German city’s famous cathedral on the night from Thursday to Friday.

Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers says witnesses described the assaults as coming from a group of up to 1000 men whose appearance indicated they were of “Arab or North African origin”.

Some 60 criminal complaints have so far been filed, including one allegation of rape.

‘Katja L’, 28, told Der Express: “When we came out of the station, we were very surprised by the group that met us there”. She said the group was “exclusively young foreign men”. Keeping close to her friends, they pressed on:

“We then walked through this group of men. There was an alley through [the men] which we walked through. Suddenly I felt a hand on my buttocks, then on my breasts, in the end, I was groped everywhere. It was a nightmare. Although we shouted and beat them, the guys did not stop. I was desperate and think I was touched around 100 times in the 200 metres.

“Fortunately I wore a jacket and trousers. a skirt would probably have been torn away from me”.
German news agency dpa quoted Albers telling reporters on Monday that it was “an intolerable situation that such crimes are committed in the middle of the city.”
Police have identified 80 victims of the gangs, 35 of which were subjected to sex attacks. Others were assaulted or robbed, Breitbart reports.

Police succeeded to arrest eight suspicious men out of the crowd. "They had all the papers copied this, residence certificates for asylum procedures."

A plain-clothes policewoman was reportedly among those attacked.

"We assume more people will come forward," said police chief Wolfgang Albers, who on Wednesday dismissed calls for his resignation.

The northern port city of Hamburg said it had received 27 reports of similar attacks at New Year's street parties. Read the full story here.

Update:  More and more women come forward claiming sexual assault. (Hln)[Google Translated].

The number of reports after the assaults and robberies of women in Cologne has risen to 106, including two for rape. Three quarters of the declarations has a sexual background, police said today.

Not only Cologne: German authorities acknowledging sex attacks by migrant mobs on women in Hamburg & Stuttgart https://t.co/7TQJntet50

— David Frum (@davidfrum) January 6, 2016

Die abscheulichen Übergriffe auf Frauen werden wir nicht hinnehmen. Alle Täter müssen konsequent zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden. #Silvester

— Heiko Maas (@HeikoMaas) January 5, 2016

“What is particularly disturbing is that the attacks appear to have been organised” https://t.co/rs00yXWz89

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) January 5, 2016

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                                                               Sweden rape capital of the West.

What may one conclude from the available statistics?
As part of the evidence Michael Hess presented in court, he made use of whatever statistics existed on immigrant criminality in Sweden before the statistical authorities stopped measuring. Michael Hess tried to find answers to two questions:

1. Is there a correspondence between the incidence of rape and the number of people with a foreign background in Sweden?
2. Is there a correspondence between the incidence of rape and some specific group of immigrants in Sweden?

The answer to both questions was an unequivocal Yes. Twenty-one research reports from the 1960s until today are unanimous in their conclusions: Whether or not they measured by the number of convicted rapists or men suspected of rape, men of foreign extraction were represented far more than Swedes. And this greater representation of persons with a foreign background keeps increasing:

• 1960-1970s – 1.2 to 2.6 times as often as Swedes
• 1980s – 2.1 to 4.7 times as often as Swedes
• 1990s – 2.1 to 8.1 times as often as Swedes
• 2000s – 2.1 to 19.5 times as often as Swedes

Even when adjusted for variables such as age, sex, class and place of residence, the huge discrepancy between immigrants and Swedes remains.

Small rural German village of 102 Inhabitants obliged to take in 750 refugees.

Small rural German village of 102 Inhabitants obliged to take in 750 refugees. (RT).

A small German village containing just 102 residents and with almost no infrastructure will have to accommodate as many as 750 asylum seekers after a decision by the regional authorities. Villagers fear the area will be unable to cope with the burden.

The first group of refugees amounting to 500 people will arrive in Sumte – a small village in the German state of Lower Saxony – as early as Monday. The one-street settlement with no shops, no school and even no police station fears that its accommodation capabilities will be pushed to the limit.

Initially, the regional authorities wanted the village to house 1,000 refugees, which they informed the settlement mayor of via e-mail in early October. At that time, this news was perceived by the villagers as a hoax.

Christian Fabel, the village’s mayor, and his wife thought “it was a joke,” which “certainly could not be true,” as they could not believe that the settlement would be ordered to house a number of asylum seekers that exceeded 10 times the number of its villagers, the New York Times reported.

However, they soon realized that it was not a joke and that it was impossible to block this decision when Alexander Gotz, a spokesman of the Lower Saxony Interior Ministry, responsible for the distribution of refugees, told Fabel that the village had “two options – yes, or yes.”

Later, after the villagers protested this decision at several meetings with regional authorities citing security concerns and a lack of necessary infrastructure, the number of refugees the settlement should house was decreased from 1,000 to a maximum of 750 people.

“The burden of 1,000 refugees for one village with only 102 residents is absolutely disproportionate – it cannot be compared with any other place in Germany,” the village’s mayor Christian Fabel said at the first meeting with the regional authorities devoted to this issue.

“200 or 300 would be a justifiable number,” he added as quoted by the German Hamburger Abendblatt.

“We have zero infrastructure here for so many people,” Fabel also said, as quoted by the New York Times.

Regional authorities disregarded these claims but admitted that the village’s sewage system was unlikely to cope with the sudden influx of 1,000 new residents, so they lowered the quota for the settlement in order to give time for the extension of that system.

At the same time, the villagers began calling for security to be beefed up. Local lawmaker Manfred Nahrstedt demanded that a special 24/7 manned police station should be established in the neighboring town of Neuhaus located five kilometers from the village.

Some local residents even suggested the creation of a special police unit monitoring refugees.
Both proposals were rejected by the deputy district police chef, Matthias Oltersdorf, who dubbed such measures “excessive,” as reported by the German NDR news.

Oltersdorf said that Sumte did not need a permanent police presence and added that safety of the villagers would be guaranteed by the fact that street lights would stay lit all night long.

In October, the Lower Saxony interior ministry decided to accommodate another group of refugees in 23 empty office buildings in Sumte that were owned by a now-defunct company. The authorities say that the offices will be used as a refugee center for a year as an emergency winter shelter and the refugees will stay in the village only for the time necessary to process their asylum requests.

Germany: No more refugees.....'We're Under Water'.

Germany: No more refugees.....'We're Under Water'. (Spiegel).

Mohammed sleeps on a mattress in the auditorium of a home for children and youth located not far from the Nuremberg city center. The facility is operated by the Rumelsberger Diakonie, the local chapter of Germany's nationwide Protestant charity operation. Werner Pfingstgraef, who is responsible for unaccompanied minors at the facility, says: "If I compare the present situation with the floods (of 2013), then you have to say, we're under water." Every one of his employees, he says, is running "like they were on a hamster wheel."

Last year, the Bavarian Social Affairs Ministry forecast that 500 to 600 unaccompanied minors would arrive. But 3,400 came, says Pfingstgraef. He estimates that some 14,000 are currently in Bavaria. Still, despite the difficulties of the present situation, he warns against lowering standards in response. "If we aren't successful in getting these young people a school certificate and stabilizing them, we will pay for it bitterly one day."

It's everywhere, this anger with Merkel -- in the conference hall in Schkeuditz on Wednesday evening, for example. It's the kind of regional conference that Merkel likes to set up so as to calm ruffled party feathers. But this time, it is more than just ruffled feathers. This time, it is an open revolt.

It's not just the party rank and file who join the debate, but also regional officials, mayors and former state parliamentarians. They say that Merkel opened the gates to the refugees and that she should finally take steps to limit the inflow. One says: "In my opinion, you have failed."

Merkel is looking increasingly isolated. Government sources say she has made refugee policy her personal concern, and now she is being left to deal with it on her own. Last week, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière confided in his Luxembourg counterpart, telling him that Merkel did not have a plan, only "cold feet."

Even if the chancellor remains convinced that Germany can handle the influx of refugees, when it comes to unaccompanied minors, Germany is failing in many areas. And money isn't even the problem. There are no buildings that satisfy the criteria established by the youth welfare office. There are insufficient personnel with backgrounds in education because too few students have pursued degrees in the subjects needed.

Merkel's critics also know that there are no simple solutions. But that's not their focus. They want to send a "message to the global public" that even a rich county like Germany can't accept an unlimited number of people, as Governor Horst Seehofer, who is the head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's CDU, puts it.

But the message is also intended for domestic consumption. Many conservative lawmakers would like to see the reintroduction of border controls and want people who have no chance of receiving asylum to be blocked from entering Germany at the border. They want the state to demonstrate that it hasn't completely lost control of who enters the country.

Merkel believes that this is the wrong approach. In the meeting with parliamentary conservatives, she repeated her conviction that securing borders wouldn't work on a national level. Only on the European level. CDU domestic policy specialist Armin Schuster contradicted the chancellor. "I am a federal police officer," he began. "Ms. Chancellor, have faith. The federal police force can handle it."

Others had the same message. Clemens Binninger, a member of parliament from the state of Baden-Württemberg, said: "If you are of the opinion that we can't control and reject, then I am of a different opinion." Hans-Peter Uhl, a conservative from Bavaria, predicted the end of Merkel's political career if she doesn't change her approach: "When the people realize that the government cannot or will not protect them, then the people will elect a different government."

Merkel's confidants in the Chancellery had thought that they had the conflict at least temporarily under control. On Monday morning, Merkel spoke with CSU head Horst Seehofer on the phone and told him that she too would begin openly supporting the idea of creating so-called "transit zones," similar to immigration facilities found at international airports along Germany's borders.

The zones would be for refugees who are ineligible for refugee status and would enable them to be sent back home immediately. CSU lawmakers, with the support of German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, had been demanding the establishment of such zones for the previous two weeks. Hmmm.....As i warned right away at the start Extreme right will rise in Europe.Read the full story here.

Related: 807 000 migrants entered EU in first nine months of 2015, U.S. research shows Immigrants cut Native employment.

Video - Refugee crisis leads to Far right on the rise in Germany and the EU.

More then a month ago i was warning for this would happen in Europe, it's already happening.

The Netherlands.

The Hague (AFP) - New tensions flared in the Netherlands Sunday over the sensitive issue of taking in migrants, only hours after Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte sharply condemned a "cowardly" attack on a refugee shelter.

Police were forced to intervene in the central city of Utrecht on Sunday when hundreds joined a rally organised by the far-right German PEGIDA movement, short for "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident".

A poll published Sunday in the De Telegraaf newspaper showed that the Freedom Party (PVV) of firebrand far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders appears to be shooting up the polls amid the refugee crisis.

His party won 15 seats in the last elections in 2012. But according to the daily De Telegraaf, if elections were held today his party could snatch as many as 35 seats in the 150-seat lower house.

HT And source:

Update #Refugees (English) #marchofhope #MigrantMarch #trainofhope is finished http://t.co/cC4z2UOdnh THX: @OranjeKhadra @HumaLiaquatHR

— Muschelschloss☕ ️ (@Muschelschloss) October 12, 2015

PEGIDA movement and ‘Islamic State’ pursue similar goals – Turkish PM

PEGIDA movement and ‘Islamic State’ pursue similar goals – Turkish PM. (Taz).


PEGIDA movement in Germany and the ‘Islamic State’ terrorist organization pursue similar goals, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted Jan. 15 by Anadolu agency as saying.

He said that as the "Islamic State" is a threat to Muslim countries, PEGIDA movement is similarly a threat to Germany.

“Turkey is concerned about PEGIDA’s actions, as its representatives want to see German society without Muslims, in particular without Turks,” he said.

“ The"Islamic State" wants to see Iraq and Syria without a Christian population,” Davutoglu said.

In December 2014, an anti-Islam rally was held in the German city of Dresden. Over 17,000 people took part in the rally.

This anti-Islam rally was the tenth of its kind, organized against Islam and Muslims by the movement known as PEGIDA, and was held under the slogan: “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West”.

The rally participants protested against the increase of the number of Muslims in Europe and called for tightening of immigration policy in Germany.

German PEGIDA cancels rally over 'ISIL death threat' to organizers.

German PEGIDA cancels rally over 'ISIL death threat' to organizers. (HD).

Germany's anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement said it has cancelled a planned march on Jan. 19, citing a death threat against organizers from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

"Cancelled! Dear friends, unfortunately we must cancel our 13th meeting due to security concerns," the group "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident" said on its Facebook page on Jan. 18.

"What in police jargon is called an 'abstract threat' has changed to a 'concrete death threat' against a member of the organizing team. ISIL terrorists have ordered his assassination."

Germany's Der Spiegel news weekly reported Friday that foreign intelligence services had picked up communications by some "known international jihadists", without giving specific details.

The intelligence, which was passed to German authorities, indicated they had discussed possible attacks on PEGIDA rallies.

"We take these leads very seriously," Spiegel quoted an unnamed high-ranking security official as saying.

PEGIDA said it had discussed the threat with state police and the internal security agency.

It had decided to scrap the event in the eastern city of Dresden as it could not guarantee the security of marchers and feared "collateral damage".

Top-circulation daily Bild said in an online report that the threat targeted PEGIDA founder Lutz Bachmann.

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." Hmmm........'Sometimes NATO Ally' - 3,000 in Turkey linked to ISIL group, ISIS controls border crossings......How many are in Germany?

Cologne cathedral to switch off lights in protest at anti-Islamisation of the West march.

Cologne cathedral to switch off lights in protest at anti-Islamisation of the West march. (Guardian).

March by Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West is latest in a series of anti-Muslim protests in Germany.

Cologne Cathedral, one of Germany’s most famous landmarks, will be plunged into darkness on Monday evening in protest at a march by a grassroots anti-Muslim movement through the western German city.

The rise of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida) has shaken the political establishment, prompting the chancellor, Angela Merkel, to warn in her new year address that its leaders were racists full of hatred and citizens should beware being used.

The group’s last weekly rally in the eastern city of Dresden attracted an estimated 17,000 people. It plans to hold further marches in other cities.

“Pegida is made up of an astonishingly broad mix of people, ranging from those in the middle of society to racists and the extreme right wing,” the dean of Cologne Cathedral, Norbert Feldhoff, said.

“By switching off the floodlighting we want to make those on the march stop and think. It is a challenge: consider who you are marching alongside.” Hmmm......A Dark veil has already fallen over 'Eurabia' when freedom of speech is no longer allowed. Read the full story here.

German Turkish Muslims to protest anti-Islam group in Germany

German Turkish Muslims to protest anti-Islam group in Germany. (Taz).

At least 13 non-governmental organizations of Muslim and ethnic-Turkish immigrants in Germany announced Thursday their joint decision to protest against the right-wing populist PEGIDA movement Anadolu Agency reported

“We are calling on all citizens to join demonstration in Cologne on Jan. 5 and take a stance against racism, xenophobia, hatred against foreigners and hostility against Islam,” the organizations said in a joint statement.

“We will support all democratic initiatives and allies that oppose PEGIDA and other groups inspired by it,” the statement added.

Germany's Muslim Coordination Council, a platform of four large Muslim organizations in the country, signed the joint statement along with associations representing Turkish-German businessmen, TUMSIAD and MUSIAD-NRW.

Union of European Turkish Democrats, one of the most influential organizations among Germany’s three million Turks, also backed the call for joining the counter-protests in Cologne, organized by a German citizen initiative supported by political parties, trade unions and church organizations.

Cologne is one of Germany’s most populated cities known for its multi-cultural plurality and large number of immigrants.

A recently formed right-wing anti-Islam movement, Cologne Against Islamization of the West, is also planning a demonstration in the city Monday.

The initiative is a copycat group inspired by the Patriotic Europeans Against Islamization of the West or the PEGIDA, which gathered more than 17,000 protesters in the city on Dec. 22. The rise of the right-wing group made headlines in Germany and abroad.

Nearly 30 percent of Germans polled by the Stern magazine said they believed anti-Islam demonstrations organized by PEGIDA were justifiable.

Merkel strongly criticized PEGIDA in her New Year’s speech Wednesday and accused the movement of discriminating against people in Germany on the basis of their skin color or religion.

"I would like to say the following to those who are participating in these demonstrations: Do not follow the calls of those organizers because their hearts are cold, often full of prejudice and even hate," Merkel said.

Forsa Institute’s poll revealed that while many Germans expressed concerns over what they perceived as Islamization, majority of them did not see any threat and 67 percent of those polled said they viewed talk of a threat of Islamization in Germany as an exaggeration. Read the full story here.