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Thousands of German anti-Islam protesters on Monday vented their fury at Chancellor Angela Merkel over her welcoming of refugees, accusing her of “high treason” and “crimes against the German people”. With Europe’s top economy expecting to take in up to

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

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

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.

The leaders of the so-called “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident” have asked marchers to wear black armbands and observe a minute’s silence for “the victims of terrorism in Paris.”

Concern among Germans regarding the destructive potential of Islam within a free society has been growing in the past several years; even before last weeks gruesome attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a plurality of Germans believed that Islam was “threatening” or “very threatening” to German society, according to one poll.

German officials asked the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) organization to cancel a rally scheduled on Monday due to the terrorism attacks in Paris, France.

(Reuters) – Anti-immigrant groups in Germany seized on Wednesday’s deadly attack in Paris, with leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and PEGIDA saying it showed the threat of Islamist violence.

A record high of 18,000 people came out on Monday to join the anti-Islamification supporters of the group Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA). Also on Monday, several cities held counter-protests to demonstrate against PEGIDA.

In his weekly investors newsletter, investment guru John P. Hussman says that he’s in the camp that believes that “the likelihood of a market loss on the order of 40%, 50% or even 60% in the next few years is quite high.”

The German anti-Islamisation group which has sprung from a small meeting of a few dozen to tens of thousands in less than three months has enjoyed a record turnout despite stiff opposition from the German establishment and an increasingly violent counter-movement.

The taxpayer-funded German state broadcaster has released a colourful children’s cartoon animation criticising anti-Islamisation movement PEGIDA, as German politicians, the mainstream media, the arts, and the Church unite to pour scorn on the Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA). The group,

Angela Merkel will use her televised new year’s eve address tonight to call on Germans to reject the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of Europe (PEGIDA) movement, remarking it “goes without saying” that Germany should accept mass immigration and refugees

The German PEGIDA movement held its largest meeting yet last night to protest what they call the ‘Islamisation of the Western World’, despite stiff opposition from all sections of Germany’s elite including politicians, media, and the arts. PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans