A record anti-Islamic march in Germany has been dwarfed by demonstrators calling for tolerance towards Muslims.
Some 25,000 supporters of the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) staged the rally in Dresden on Monday.
Waving the German national flag, members held up placards with slogans including "stop multiculturalism - my homeland will stay German".
Wearing black armbands with some carrying "Je suis Charlie" signs, they also held a minute's silence for the 17 victims of the terror attacks in Paris last week.
PEGIDA activists have also announced plans for similar rallies in Switzerland and Austria.
Co-founder Kathrin Oertel told the Reuters news agency: "We are getting more support each week.
"We are against all violence that is religiously motivated whether Muslim or Christian... people have been confronted by it now and are thinking about it more."
But counter demonstrations have sprung up across Germany, with 30,000 people attending an anti-PEGIDA rally in Leipzig, 20,000 in Munich and 8,000 in Dresden.
Similar demonstrations have also taken place in Hanover, Saarbruecken, Duesseldorf, Berlin, Hamburg and Rostock.
Chancellor Angela Merkel had earlier said that "Islam belongs to Germany" and said she would join a Muslim community rally at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
She also called on people to stay away from PEGIDA rallies, claiming supporters had "hatred in their hearts".
On Sunday, the offices of a tabloid newspaper in Hamburg were firebombed after it reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed from French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
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