becoming madison. i'll be in las vegas again tomorrow night for the republican debate. thanks for joining us. the news continues here on al jazeera america. >> on "america tonight": the rise of the right. anger at politicians. fear of foreigners, drives the return of vicious hate to the streets of germany. >> people trying to kill others. that's the reality we have again in 2015 in germany. >> maintain's sheila macvicar with a spark that threatens to ignite a fury.

>> struggling against an onslaught that provokes hostility. but it's not in our country but germany, which this month saw refugee number 1 million cross its borders and that's just since january. to put this in perspective, it would be like four million showing up in america this year. "america tonight"'s sheila macvicar found a fierce reaction. >> reporter: once a fringe movement, germany's far right has taken advantage of the rival arrival of over a million refugees. tapping into a growing xenophobia, that many feel could spiral out of control. and just days after the attacks in paris, they killed 130 people, germany's neonazi party

demonstrated against the pavilion in berlin. for more than a year, huge rallies with tens of thousands of people repeatedly call for the resignation of german chancellor angela merkel who has welcomed refugees. pro-merkel politician he have received death threats. one was even stand in the neck. and arson attacks against refugees are up tenfold. >> people trying to kill others. that's reality that we have again in 2015 in germany. >> marius monsterman works for an organization that tracks violence against refugees from extremist groups. >> people resort to this also who would otherwise have distanced them from such actions. i think this is what is the most

dangerous part about it. >> reporter: this drama is playing itself out in towns across germany. places like p pritchow, a villae of just over 1,000 people, what used to be communist east germany. later spreading the footage on facebook after the government announced plans to send 250 refugees there. >> it's one of many case examples in which you see a mingling between organized neonazis and local groups that have the same aim. which is driving out refugees, not housing them, not having them in their community. >> reporter: every sunday since october, bus loads of neonazis have joined dozens of

local residents. loudly proclaiming their anti-immigrant message, leaving the town and even some families deeply divided. local pastor christophe says the far right wing has been able to exploit the concerns of people unprepared for immigrants be arrival. >> every sunday since that time there are people running and saying we are against refugees, refugees are bad, ugly, refugees are all muslims. >> reporter: now each sunday the pastor holds peace services, a counter to the right wing demonstrations. >> a lot of people are using right wing words, but often i got the impression that they don't really know what they say. >> reporter: that it's more of an expression for some of fear?

than it is of right wing ideology? >> yeah, but the problem is, the more you use these words, the more you became right wing. >> reporter: money any other issue in germany, pollsters say increasingly, the refugee crisis is identified as the single most important problem. >> refugee crisis there and other topics are irrelevant, hasn't happened for at least 20 years in germany that one topic is that high. >> fear against the refugees has helped the right wing to grow even spawning new parties. polls show that one of them is now the third most particular in the country. >> the most important right wing populace party in germany at this point is the alternative for germany. panned all the people who are unsatisfied they think with the

politics of angela merkel, they think there is no alternative except for alternative for germany so they are rising. >> this part in the society is muslims are kind of a threat of pretentious threat and so it's very easy for right wing populace parties or right wing populace movements to say well we have to do something against this threat. >> reporter: in dresden for more than a year crowds of up to 20,000 people have been gathering every monday night to protest against islam and chancellor merkel's refugee policy. this dresden group was called pegida. or patriotic europeans against

thing islamization of the west. joachim is an unemployed 62-year-old, schneider lives in a small apartment surrounded by dozens of a antiques and hundres of clocks. he's been unemployed for a decade. it's what he reads about islam and right wing literature that scares him the most.

>> reporter: schneider's sentiments are echoed by leaders on the far right like jergen schultz. with alternative for germany. >> reporter: schultschultz sas party is simply trying to keep germany from being torn apart by other cultures. >> the rise of right wing populace or right wing extremist parties that we see at the moment is a great threat to the engineer plan society and to german democracy. people who are rallying with

pegida, saying i have a different view, these are calling on the politicians who don't think the way they want, and the same words they use are the words 60 years ago by the nazis. before the crisis angela merkel was seen as the most prominent, the most beloved politician in germany and now her approval rates have dropped significant significantly. >> reporter: the right wing may be rising in germany but their views on refugees still do not represent the majority of junior man'engineer plans.

born and raised in the town where neonazis march every weekend, her objective, integration. news media is not allowed inside the camp but three syrian refugees spoke to us just outside the gate. they asked us to conceal their faces to protect their families in syria. >> reporter: do you know about these right wing demonstrations, these nazi demonstrations that

take place near here on sundays? >> reporter: the refugees say weekly meetings with some local residents are helping to reduce tensions. as for the neonazis and other supporters of the far right, christine sharf has a simple message. that's a message the far right and its supporters have no intention of heeding. sheila macvicar, al jazeera, germany. >> next, the sounds that inspire hate. the stunning confessions of a musician who used his talent to promote evil. later the faith that keeps

hope alive in one of america's most paying communities, the pulpit for gun control. and hot on "america tonight's" blogs, the high price in keeping parents in prison at aljazeera.com/americatonight.

>> we look now at what motivates hate in our community. six months ago, charleston, south carolina was rocked by the vicious rampage of dylann roof, a single gunman that killed nine

at an african american church. since then, what might have inspired his ief evil assault? christof putzel ponders whether it might have started around hate. >> christian's life once concentrated around music. >> i went to dakot dachau. >> white american youth and final solution. >> white man has nothing, must races have it all. we will get stronger once we hear the call. wow not very subtle. >> and 3,000 people would come hear me sing those leerk those d that was my job.

>> that was your job? >> to market this ideology to them. >> were you surprised that you and ralph listened to music that was hateful? >> not at all. it's kind of like the gateway drug for people in the movement. >> according to dylann roof's cousin, he was normal until he started hearing about that white power stuff. >> we were very adamant about the fact that we were being attacked, that our race was going to be killed off the face of the earth that there was a white genocide. >> roof wasn't the only shooter. wade michael page walked into a sikh temple, killing civil and wounding five others. he was a muse sition playing ine band definite hate.

studied page's background. >> the music is like any kind of messaging results in calls to action. you have some bands like the angry aryans of the u.s. or midtown boot boys, who are very much telling people go out and commit acts of violence, preach the white race. >> preaching action? >> yeah yeah yeah. >> many believed white power influence was also on the wane. instead the web has allowed it to spread its message of hate that much more easily. daily stormer and storm front have allowed thousands of daily users separated by only geography. >> now you have all kinds of genres, thrash deaf metal, and rock 'n' roll.

>> a wider net appealing to more people? >> that was the scope of it yes. >> up coming race war in this country. >> an outgrowth of the american nazi party of the 1950s. scoop is the ceo of white power label ns 88. 88 is like are for heil hit plerp. >> whiskey bottles and rebel flags. we've got gigaboos on the run and they fear the setting sun. wonder you say that song is advocating violence against black americans? >> i'd say it is freedom of expression. again, we have to remember this is a song, no one's advocating going out and necessarily doing these kind of things.

>> wade michael page did. he went out and killed six people. >> to say that the music made him do that, no, i think that's ridiculous. is that's like saying if i watched a violent tv show, i'm going to go out and reenact what i saw in that tv show. >> for christian it was music that led him to embrace hate but in music he moved away and embraced peace. >> i started to have conversations with black people or jewish people or with same sex couples or with gays people. i couldn't justify my hate anymore. i began to be embarrassed by the music i kent behind the counter. >> he feels responsible, even 20 years later.

>> the thoughts and music i put into people, still lives on on the websites, that's the dark legacy that i've left behind and the one i struggle with the most. >> christof putzel, al jazeera. >> next remembering the live lost at sandy hook and the faith that aims to rebuild. and, seeking shelter. tuesday on "america tonight" nashville struggles to house its most vulnerable leads to a down side solution. "america tonight's" lisa fletcher on building a community. that's tuesday on "america tonight."

>> we've looked at what can inspire the hate that kills. a now moment, the ties that bind, and with hope, build. today marks two years since 20 children and six adults were killed at sandy hook, connecticut. the governor of connecticut signed an order banning anyone on terror watch lists from buying guns in his state. and other have stepped up too. "america tonight's" lori jane sees the legacy of sandy hook, giving faith to the future. >> someone shooting in the building. >> when gunman adam lanza opened fire at sandy hook elementary, the religious leaders of 9th, connecticut were on the front lines of grief. >> i don't think anything prepares you for kind of horrific reality that was what happened to us here.

>> reporter: reverend matt crebin was among the first clergy to console parents. >> i was there with this group of families as they were learning about what had happened to their loved ones. >> and in hebrew it's -- >> rabbi chaol praver learned noah posner was dead, the youngest victim of lanza's rampage. the shooting at sandy hook elementary thrust them into the national spotlight. >> these darkest days of our community shall not be the final word heard from us. >> reporter: and the massacre transformed them both into advocates for stricter gun laws in america. >> it connected me in ways to other communities and other people who have been impacted by gun violence and made me more

aware of that impact and a real emotional human level. >> it's the ticket that we've been handed and that we have a responsibility to put into the game, you know? that's the newtown card, you know? we didn't ask for it but we were served it. so i feel like that's a commandment from god for me to do something with that. >> reporter: the rabbi and the reverend were acquaintances before but the sandy hook mack massacre forged anew position. >> they call us the god squad. notion gets pasnothing gets pas. >> they went to washington for a back on assault rifles but couldn't muster the votes. but they decided to go after corporate america.

>> i want corporations to get off the sidelines to be thinking about this and to be creatism responding. that's my sole -- that's my sole goal. >> their first target, starbucks. when open carry advocates showed up it was too much. applying pressure starbucks caved. no more open carry. >> i think it was the moral authority of the god squad after newtonurnt that reallynewtown in and within four months starbucks changed its gun policy. >> elliot fineman met the god squad during the starbucks pledge and joined. 2007 special forces veteran, his son, was shot dead by a person

suffering from schizophrenia. corporations could break the deadlock on difficult social issues. next stop: kansas city. home to an unlikely target. hahal mark. lmark. fineman and the god squad threatened to boycott, encouraging people to refrain from buying father's day cards unless hallmark would join them in their fight. >> why do you think it's okay to pressure a company in that way? >> i think it can be considered bullying and if we can do bullying and cut down the gun violence and homicides i'm all for it. >> at first hallmark refused to meet and the group planned to

picket. just weeks before the planned protest, company representatives agreed to see fineman and the god squad. after the meeting, fineman and the god squad wouldn't discuss anything. but the meeting was upbeat. >> so what happened? >> we fist bumped. >> we advanced the process. we established i have good communication. and got rid of a potential adversary position . >> and it doesn't mean we're all in agreement or we all see things exact same way or all going to do things in the exact same way but for us opening that door of conversation makes a big difference. >> the rabbi and the reverend are determined that their mission will go on. for as long as it takes.

>> of. >> if we can get corporations involved, other people involved, we can problem-solve, feel good, rather than just going home and saying i'm right and you're wrong. >> you save one life, you save others. and we can't get the numbers to zero but we can get them to a level where we can say with a straight face that we are a civil humane society. >> to make our lives a blessing ♪ >> lori jane, al jazeera, newtown, connecticut. >> opening the door to the god squad. that's "america tonight." tell us what you think at aljazeera.com/americatonight. talk to us on twitter or facebook and come back. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow. >> our american story is written everyday.

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