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Sat 09 Sep 2008'Anti-Islamisation' event abandoned after protests
GERMANY:A FAR-RIGHT group was forced to abandon a press conference launching a campaign against plans for a new mosque and Muslim immigration in the German city of Cologne yesterday when protesters targeted them with stones and paint.
"Mosques are shooting out of the ground like mushrooms" and "headscarves are flooding our streets" were among the inflammatory statements the Pro-Cologne group used to drum up support for its three-day "Anti-Islamisation conference".
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