{"id":956,"date":"2015-05-03T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/956-ex-pegida-leader-apologizes-to-muslims\/"},"modified":"2015-05-03T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T17:26:52","slug":"ex-pegida-leader-apologizes-to-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/956-ex-pegida-leader-apologizes-to-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PEGIDA leader apologizes to Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">After months of leading anti-Muslim protests in Germany, the former leader of the so-called anti-Islam PEGIDA movement has apologized to Muslims from spreading a campaign of hatred across Europe<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After months of leading anti-Muslim protests in Germany, the former leader of the so-called anti-Islam PEGIDA movement has apologized to Muslims from spreading a campaign of hatred across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-leader of Germany&#8217;s PEGIDA movement said in a video message quoted by The Washington Post that those still belonging to the PEGIDA movement need to understand that they are advocating for the wrong cause.<\/p>\n<p>She apologized to all migrants and to all Muslims among them who live peacefully and are assimilated with German society, who respect Germany&#8217;s culture and laws.<\/p>\n<p>Since October, the group \u201cPatriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident\u201d or PEGIDA has been holding weekly marches against Muslims and immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is believed to be home to nearly 4 million Muslims, including 220,000 in Berlin alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of leading anti-Muslim protests in Germany, the former leader of the so-called anti-Islam PEGIDA movement has apologized to Muslims from spreading a campaign of hatred across Europe \u00a0 After months of leading anti-Muslim protests in Germany, the former leader of the so-called anti-Islam PEGIDA movement has apologized to Muslims from spreading a campaign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-germany"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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