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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Government turns lights off on anti-Islamist protesers


Cologne Cathedral (left) was plunged into darkness last night as
the authorities switched off the power at famous landmarks to show
their disapproval at anti-immigrant protests.


Open Borders Conservatism

  • Open borders Conservative German Chancellor Angela Merkel says you are an evil "racist" if you oppose unlimited Muslim immigration . . . never mind that Islam is not a race.


(London Daily Mail)  -  Germany was plunged into darkness last night as the authorities switched off the lights at some of the country's most famous landmarks in a mark of disapproval at protests against the so-called 'Islamisation of Europe'.

Protesters from the mounting right-wing group the Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West marched through the streets of several German cities in the latest round of demonstrations against what they say is the growing influence of Islam on the country.

But campaigners in Cologne, Berlin and Dresden were met with darkness as opponents staged a silent coordinated campaign to switch off the power at a number of buildings.


In Cologne, where the PEGIDA campaigners were heavily outnumbered, the square around Cologne Cathedral - one of Germany's most famous landmarks - was plunged into darkness.

In Berlin, the floodlights at the Brandenburg Gate were switched off, while the lights were also extinguished at the city's iconic TV Tower. Lights on the bridges which cross the Rhine were also switched off.

Cologne Cathedral provost Norbert Feldhoff, said that shutting down the lights was an attempt to make the demonstrators think twice about their protest.

'You're taking part in an action that, from its roots and also from speeches, one can see is Nazi-ist, racist and extremist,' he told n-tv. 'And you're supporting people you really don't want to support.'

Other buildings, including several other churches and a museum, joined the Cologne Cathedral in shutting off their lights. 

In the eastern city Dresden - which has been at the centre of the weekly rallies since they began in October - Volkswagen decided to keep its glass-walled manufacturing plant dark, to demonstrate that the company 'stands for an open, free and democratic society.' 

The latest wave of protests came just days after German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her New Year's Day message to spurn the rallies which she views as racist

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The blanket of darkness which descended across Germany was said to be a
sign of solidarity against protests by the Patriotic Europeans
Against the Islamisation of the West.


Some 18,000 anti-immigrant protesters marched through the streets
of Dresden in the latest round of demonstrations about what they
say is the growing influence of Islam.


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