[DAWN] A day after anti-Islam protesters marched in record numbers in Dresden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as
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said her government would do everything in its power to fight intolerance, calling discrimination based on religious faith humanly reprehensible.
Roughly 25,000 demonstrators, some carrying mocking posters of Ms Merkel in a headscarf, marched in Dresden on Monday, to demand stricter immigration rules and an end to multiculturalism in Germany, home to four million Moslems, most of Turkish origin.
The movement, called PEGIDA or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, has drawn far fewer supporters in other cities. And counter-demonstrations against racism have drawn far larger crowds.