{"id":6157,"date":"2014-12-13T20:44:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2014-12-16T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:50:53","slug":"germans-rise-islamization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/12\/13\/germans-rise-islamization\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans Rise Up Against Islamization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-pegida.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6158\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-pegida.jpg\" alt=\"germany pegida\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-pegida.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/germany-pegida-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thousands of German citizens have been taking to the streets to protest the growing &#8220;Islamization&#8221; of their country.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germans Rise Up Against Islamization<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a title=\"Germans Rise Up Against Islamization\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/4951\/germans-islamization-pegida\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | December 13, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of German citizens have been taking to the streets to protest the growing \u201cIslamization\u201d of their country.<\/p>\n<p>The protests are part of a burgeoning grassroots movement made up of ordinary citizens who are calling for an end to runaway immigration and the spread of Islamic Sharia law in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The guardians of German multiculturalism are fighting back: they are seeking to delegitimize the protesters by branding them as \u201cneo-Nazis\u201d and by claiming that the Islamization of Germany is a myth contrived by misinformed citizens.<\/p>\n<p>But the mounting public backlash over what many perceive as the government\u2019s indifference to the growing influence of Islam in German society represents a potentially significant turning point\u2014one that implies that the days of unrestrained German multiculturalism may be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Germans Rise Up Against Islamization\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/4951\/germans-islamization-pegida\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of German citizens have been taking to the streets to protest the growing &#8220;Islamization&#8221; of their country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[179,21,181],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-islam-in-europe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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