\u00a0\u00a0A German Muslim leader says that Muslims and mosques are increasingly becoming targets of violence in Germany. He puts part of the blame on the ‘anti-Islamization’ group PEGIDA.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0A German Muslim leader says that Muslims and mosques are increasingly becoming targets of violence in Germany. He puts part of the blame on the ‘anti-Islamization’ group PEGIDA.<\/p>\n
According to the chairman of Germany’s Central Council of Muslims, violence and hostile incidents targeting Muslims and mosques are taking place in Germany on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
He added that Muslim women are frequently the target of hostile insults.<\/p>\n
He also puts part of the blame for the increase in violence on the right-wing group PEGIDA, which for months has been organizing weekly rallies in the eastern city of Dresden against what it calls the “Islamization” of Europe.<\/p>\n
The group, whose name in German stands for “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West,” claims to oppose only Islamist violence and not Muslims who integrate into German society.<\/p>\n
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