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Poll Shows Majority of Germans See Islam as Threat
2015-01-11
[AnNahar]. A large and growing majority of Germans believe Islam does not belong in the Western world and more than half see it as a threat, a poll published Thursday showed.
Buncha racists. They should shuddup and listen to their betters.
In a survey conducted in November, before Wednesday's massacre by Islamist gunnies at a French satirical paper or widespread media coverage of a new German anti-migrant movement, 61 percent of non-Moslem Germans said Islam had no place in the West.

The figure was up from 52 percent in 2012, according to the study released by the Bertelsmann Foundation think tank.

More than half -- 57 percent -- said they felt threatened by Islam, four percentage points higher than in 2012.

Forty percent said they felt like "foreigners in their own country" because of the presence of Moslems.

And one in four (24 percent) said that Moslems should be barred from migrating to Germany.

About four million Moslems live in Germany, around three-quarters of them of Turkish origin, among a population of 80 million people.

"For Moslems, Germany has become home. But they are confronted with a negative image apparently shaped by a minority of radical Islamists," Bertelsmann Foundation Islam expert Yasemin El-Menouar wrote in the study's findings, which also looked at Moslem immigrants' views of Germany.

- Prejudice against Moslems -
The authors said that anti-Islam stances could be found regardless of class or education level, but that younger people and those with personal contacts with Moslems showed less prejudice.

The poll was by the TNS Emnid independent opinion research institute among 937 non-Moslem Germans.

Germany has been rocked by anti-migrant marches in the eastern city of Dresden, which began small in October but have grown in support over the last month, now attracting around 18,000 people each week.

They are organised by a right-wing populist group calling itself PEGIDA or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident.

It issued a statement on its Facebook page saying that the killing of 12 people by Islamist gunnies at the satirical paper Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
in Gay Paree Wednesday confirmed their views.

"The Islamists, which PEGIDA has been warning about for 12 weeks, showed La Belle France that they are not capable of democracy but rather look to violence and death as an answer," it said.

"Our politicians want us to believe the opposite. Must such a tragedy happen here in Germany first???"

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 Mom...
has urged Germans not to attend the marches, accusing them of stoking "hatred", and encouraged counterdemonstrators, who have managed to outnumber PEGIDA protesters in recent weeks at gatherings across the country.
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