Defiant Danes march after gunman attacks Copenhagen title
Source: Reuters
Singing John Lennon's Imagine, defiant Danes promised to uphold their trademark open society and showed solidarity with the country's Muslim minority after reports the gunman was a Dane with Palestinian roots and a passion for Islamist issues.
Jewish leaders also called for calm and tolerance as some Muslims feared a backlash.
"We fight together with them (Muslims) for religious rights. We are moderates. We fight together against extremism and radicalism," Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, chairman of the Danish Jewish Community, told a press conference.
Thousands of Danes left flowers at the synagogue, walking in a quiet, solemn procession, with many also leaving both Danish and Israeli flags. A march by PEGIDA, the anti-Islam movement born in Germany, however, attracted only around 50 people.
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The right-wing Danish People's Party will undoubtedly go in the opposite direction since their goal is to decrease immigration (particularly of Muslims).
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