Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Dresden (Germany) (AFP) - A record 15,000 people marched Monday in eastern Germany against "asylum cheats" and the country's "Islamisation" in the latest show of strength of a growing far-right populist movement. Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier cautioned Germans against falling prey to xenophobic "rabble-rousing", reacting to the nascent movement called "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident" or PEGIDA. "The people are with us!," the group's founder Lutz Bachmann shouted at the crowd, celebrating a 50-percent rise in attendance since their last "Monday demonstration" in a series of rallies that started only in October. "Everywhere now, in every news rag, on every senseless talkshow, they are debating, and the most important thing is: the politicians can no longer ignore us!" Bachmann told the mass of people, many waving the black-red-gold national flag. "We have shown by taking another 'little stroll', and by growing in numbers, that we're on the right path, and that slowly, very slowly, something is beginning to change in this country," Bachmann bellowed to loud cheers. Since the protests have rapidly grown in size and spawned smaller clones in half a dozen cities, a debate about immigration and refugees has gripped Germany, a country whose Nazi past makes expressions of xenophobia especially troubling. Politicians have been stunned by the emergence in the city of Dresden of the nationalists who march against what they consider a broken immigration and asylum system and who vent deep anger at the political class and mainstream media. The demonstrations have flared at a time when Germany, Europe's biggest economy, has become the continent's top destination for asylum seekers, and the world's number two destination for migrants after the United States. Source: http://news.yahoo.com/10-000-hold-anti-islam-protest-eastern-german-193224895.html Mess Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolev 867 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 inb4 'liberal' comments Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoxo cupcakke 4,781 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Well, these people need to chill. Like, what if it were them having to seek asylum in another country and they had t face such xenophobia? Like really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampool 5,560 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 They can **** in a plastic bag & slide on it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometoogg 0 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 nvm i dont have time for this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc 4,776 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 A bit late to the european populist trend. Ugh. Populism and nationalism are dangerous imo. For the economy, acceptance, countries in war, etc... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji 20,113 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I have no issue with people protesting against Islam any more. People have the right to believe what they want and I'm well aware that a very large majority of muslims are great people (like near every religion etc) but when these beliefs start leaking into the law that's to be followed by everyone and changing culture for the worse - it's time to actually start squeezing it out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zexion_armando 241 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Well, these people need to chill. Like, what if it were them having to seek asylum in another country and they had t face such xenophobia? Like really. What is Argentina... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersonic 49,376 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Not surprised this is in Saxony, they always had close ties to the Nazi Party in the present. Can we just evict them from Germany? Like keep the nice ones, and let the others die? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaloo911 12,959 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Wow :madge: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoxo cupcakke 4,781 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 What is Argentina... A country and a refuge for many Nazi military officials and personnel. They didn't deserve asylum because they were ones to instigate war while refugees of war have a completely different reasoning to seek asylum Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MahoganySnitch 67 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Stupid people are going to be stupid, I guess. :rofl: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid 760 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Didn't Germany learn what happens when you practice hate against a certain religion last time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Didn't Germany learn what happens when you practice hate against a certain religion last time? What kind of an idiotic ï¸Ã¯¸and stupid comment. it's not like they Wanna gas them. ï¸Ã¯¸And Lets not forget there is No right party in our parliament unlike in the rest of europe. But ofc germany gets called out. Anyway i dönt agree with the demonstrations. No wonder it's in saxony. Meanwhile there are more Demonstrations against the the right all over germany. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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