Chancellor Angela Merkel stepped up her criticism of anti-Islamist demonstrations across Germany, saying refugees have the same aspirations as the citizens of her former communist East German homeland.
Chancellor Angela Merkel stepped up her criticism of anti-Islamist demonstrations across Germany, saying refugees have the same aspirations as the citizens of her former communist East German homeland.
Chancellor Angela Merkel stepped up her criticism of anti-Islamist demonstrations across Germany, saying refugees have the same aspirations as the citizens of her former communist East German homeland.
The Islamic State movement’s “bestial” killings of its opponents in Syria and Iraq have created a flood of refugees that’s unprecedented since World War II and it’s self-evident that Germany must help, Merkel said in her New Year’s speech. About 17,500 protesters took part in a Dec. 22 rally in Dresden, demanding stricter immigration laws.
“I say to all who go to such demonstrations: Don’t follow those who call for your participation!,” Merkel said in the address to be televised today, according to an advance text released by her office. “Because all too often there is prejudice, cold, yes, even hatred in their hearts.”
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