Planned anti-Islam rally cancelled after threat
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E-mail CRI, January 19, 2015
A weekly rally by a German group protesting what it calls "the Islamisation of the West" has been called off due to a death threat against one of its organizers.
Dresden Police spokesman Thomas Gleithner said that there had been a call for attackers to mingle with the demonstrators and kill one of the protest organizers.
"Further hints do exist. For example, there is a Twitter account where it was explained in Arabic that Pegida is the enemy of Islam. There are more hints which assessed the situation as a concrete threat. It is a concrete threat because it is about a single person, but it has the characteristics of a terrorist attack where it's not just one person being harmed, but the whole environment. And the environment, in this case, includes several thousand people, and we see that as a high risk."
Instead of holding a rally, Group organizers are asking supporters to hang flags out of their windows and light candles on Monday night.
The move comes amid heightened security concerns across Europe following the recent attacks in Paris, in which 17 people were killed.
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