Anti-Islamic protests spread across Europe [View all]
Germany has become the latest European country to witness mass anti-Islamic protests that have grown increasingly common across the continent.
"In Europe in general, there is an anxiety, an anti-Islamic phobia, developing," said left-wing activist and Green euro MP Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
He was referring to the latest protests by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida) group that gathered an unprecedented 18 000 supporters to their rally in Dresden on Monday.
Pegida, which was launched only in October, rails against a range of enemies - not just Islam, but also the media ("all those liars"
and the political elite - that they accuse of diluting Germany's Christian culture.
They have won support from admirers abroad, such as Tommy Robinson, former head of the far-right anti-Islamic English Defence League.
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