Merkel government ‘to fight discrimination’

A day after calling Islam part of Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government would use all means at its disposal to fight intolerance and discrimination, calling the exclusion of certain groups from society “humanly reprehensible”.

Her comments came a day after 25,000 anti-Islam demonstrators marched in the eastern German city of Dresden to demand stricter immigration rules and an end to multiculturalism.

“What we need to do now is to use all the means at our disposal as a constitutional state to combat intolerance and violence,” Merkel said at a conference in Berlin.