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          German Government Sees Far Right Behind Anti-Islam Protests

   by Associated Press

   The German government says far-right extremists are behind offshoots of
   the anti-Islam group PEGIDA in six of the country's 16 states.

   The government says far-right extremists were found to be "steering or
   influencing" groups in Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt,
   Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bavaria.

   Saxony, where the group calling itself Patriotic Europeans against the
   Islamization of the West began staging protests more than a year ago,
   wasn't among those states.

   PEGIDA has denied it is influenced to far-right extremists, though
   neo-Nazis are visibly present at its weekly demonstrations in Dresden.

   The government response to a parliamentary query was first published
   Wednesday by German daily Thueringer Allgemeine.
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