Around 20,000 marchers took to the streets of Dresden this week to protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plans to settle up to one million migrants in Germany this year. Somewhat underreported and underplayed by the German media, the PEGIDA
Europe’s top human rights watchdog on Thursday voiced concern at mounting racism in Germany, citing a wave of far-right, anti-Islam demonstrations at odds with the more recent image of a country ready to open its doors to hundreds of thousands
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has condemned protests that erupted on Friday near an asylum center in East Germany as “abhorrent” and “shameful.” Several police were injured in violent clashes later that evening, which are being blamed on the far
BERLIN (AP) — German police said Monday they were investigating an early-morning explosion that damaged the car of a left-wing politician who had been working in support of refugees in a Dresden suburb that has seen anti-immigrant demonstrations. The incident
Drawing fewer than 50 people, a protest by Muslims against the Islamic state in Dublin has instead become emblematic of the silent acquiescence of ISIS among many in Western Europe’s Islamic communities. Organised by the Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council,
Global printing firm Spreadshirt.com has refused to create a design for a supporter of the anti-Islamism ‘PEGIDA’ group, but still sells t-shirts of Osama Bin Laden’s face. Spreadshirt, which is based in Germany, has refused to create the design for
Following his ousting as leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD) last weekend, the party’s co-founder is said to be considering the creation of a new party. Bernd Lucke and the executive board of his factional association, Weckruf 2015 (Wake-Up Call 2015), have decided to consult the
The leaders of Germany’s anti-Islamisation movement PEGIDA have spoken out and praised India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist with a track record of robust policy towards Islam. Speaking to Indian politics and culture blog Scroll.in, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA)
Anti-Islamisation movement Pegida has performed better than expected in the first election it has ever contested. The group contested the mayoral election in its eastern stronghold of Dresden, finishing fourth with 9.6 per cent of the vote. PEGIDA roses to fame late last year
The Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) welcomed Dutch politician and controversial anti-Islam orator Geert Wilders to their weekly ‘stroll’ in Dresden last night, as the group regains ground after a difficult couple of months. Wilders addressed the
A week after Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West founder Lutz Bachmann was forced to resign over old Facebook posts, his replacement Kathrin Oertel has also resigned along with four colleagues, citing harassment and threats. In a statement released
The Bishop of Münster, Felix Genn, has banned Father Paul Spätling from preaching in a Catholic church after Spätling addressed a PEGIDA rally in Duisburg earlier this week. The Bishop said he “cannot and will not tolerate” such talk.
Leader of Germany’s anti-Muslim Pegida movement resigns over Hitler photo; Yemen’s president accepts Houthi demands, possibly resolving crisis
++UPDATE++ Die Welt reports that protestors in Leipzig have attacked journalists ++UPDATE++ Large explosion reported in Leipzig, Police moving in fast ++UPDATE++ A column of protestors 60 ft wide and half a mile long estimated in Leipzig Pegida marches. 100,000
The leader of the Pegida anti immigration movement which has been causing tremors across Germany has this evening resigned from the board of the organisation after posting an image of himself as Adolf Hitler online. Lutz Bachmann posted the image
BERLIN, Germany – Over 500 met last night to assert their democratic right in the nation’s capital, despite a “concrete” terrorist threat that saw the Dresden rally at which there would have been 30,000 marching, cancelled at the last moment.
Following the cancelation of a march that was increasingly a regular weekly occurrence in Dresden, Germany’s anti-Islamist PEGIDA movement are calling for supporters in that city to line their windows with candles and flags, as well as organizing marches in other cities.
Germany’s anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement said it has cancelled a planned march on Monday, citing a death threat against organisers from the Islamic State jihadist group.
PEGIDA, the acronym for the German civil society group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, has found fertile ground for growth across Europe, from Norway to Bulgaria. The movement appears to be eyeing its chapter in Spain as the most likely to grow into the tens of thousands in membership as it did in Germany, however, where Germans are expected to join the nation’s inaugural PEGIDA march.
A recent article by the Pew Research Center highlights five important facts about Europe’s Muslim population in light of the recent Islamist attacks in France and anti-Islamist protest marches in Germany.
Fresh off the circuit from a visit to Paris, during which she marched alongside world leaders against the terrorism that took the lives of 17 people at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists, German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined a march in her own country organized by Muslim and Turkish community groups calling for an even more “open and tolerant” Germany and to counter anti-Islam protests that have been taking the nation by storm.
It’s far from certain, but the impending Greek crisis rerun during the next month poses a real threat that Greece might have to leave the eurozone and start printing drachmas again, with the result that bankers and politicians are drawing up contingency plans in case it happens.
The German anti-Islamist group PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) organized the largest rally in its history Monday, with official crowd size estimates at about 25,000. As the movement grows in Germany, fueled by anger at radical Islam for the deaths of 12 during last week’s massacre at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, other countries are beginning to establish their own PEGIDA branches.
Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) have ‘strolled’ again, but despite a week of Islamist terror in France and the fire-bombing of a German news paper which printed Mohammed cartoons, the German establishment has continued to condemn the
The anti-radical Islam group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) stages a protest every Monday in its native Dresden, Germany. On January 12, however, the group convened its largest rally yet, with 25,000 participants–significantly more due to last week’s terrorist attack in Paris, France. Attendees at the rally posted pictures and videos on social media.
