BERLIN, Nov. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Over 20,000 Muslims took part in a demonstration in western Germany on Sunday to protest against terrorism and violence in the world.

    Demonstrators holding national flags of the Turkey, Germany andthe flag of the European Union marched through the downtown of Cologne.

    "We are against terrorism of any form,""Terrorism is crime on the humankind," banners with slogans were to seen everywhere in the march.

    This was one of the most largest demonstrations of Muslims in Germany's history.

    "Terrorism has either a religion or a nationality," said chairman of the Turkish-Islamic Union Ridvan Cakir, who also organized the demonstration.

    The Islam is a religion of peace and terrorism should not be justified in the name of the Islamic belief, he noted. Enditem