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From the Liveblog of Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Merkel, German ministers at tolerance rally in Berlin

13 January 2015, 7:34 pm

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and most of her cabinet are present at a Muslim community rally to promote tolerance, and condemn and send a rebuke to a growing German anti-Islamic ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident’ (PEGIDA) movement.

Members of PEGIDA held a rally on Monday where they held banners brandished with the portrait of Merkel wearing an Islamic head scarf.

From left to right (first row): President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert, German President Joachim Gauck, Chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany Aiman Mazyek, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, and representative of Germany's Muslim community Ayten Kilicarslan pay tribute to victims of the jihadist attacks in Paris against Charlie Hebdo during a Muslim community tolerance rally on January 13, 2015 in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (photo credit: Tobias Schwarz/AFP) — From left to right (first row): President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert, German President Joachim Gauck, Chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany Aiman Mazyek, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, and representative of Germany’s Muslim community Ayten Kilicarslan pay tribute to victims of the jihadist attacks in Paris against Charlie Hebdo during a Muslim community tolerance rally on January 13, 2015 in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (photo credit: Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

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