Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Berlin (AFP) - Thousands of people joined a march by the German anti-Islamisation PEGIDA movement on Sunday, the group's first rally since threats surfaced against the group and its leader resigned over "Hitler" photos. The new demonstration in Dresden came after Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier voiced concern that the group's anti-Muslim sentiments were harming Germany's image. Police estimated that 17,000 people had turned up for the rally. Many carried signs saying "They don't do anything, they move here and they deal", "For a sovereign country", "Honest people, get up at last" and "Thank you Pegida". There were also chants of "We are the people", a reference to the spontaneous movements that preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Sunday's rally was the first since PEGIDA's founder and leader Lutz Bachmann stepped down on January 21 after a photo of him with a Hitler-style haircut and moustache appeared on Facebook, along with racist slurs. It was also the first since a rally was cancelled in Dresden after threats were made against Bachmann and other leaders of the self-styled "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident". PEGIDA marches -- which have voiced anger against Islam and "criminal asylum seekers" -- began with several hundred supporters in October and have since steadily grown, drawing a record 25,000 people on January 12 just after the Paris Islamist attacks. "We are not against Muslims who want to work in Germany, we are not neo-Nazis. But those who want to live in Germany should adapt to the reality of the country," 57-year-old Gabriele Schoenherr told AFP at the rally. Steinmeier said Germany underestimates the damage caused by "PEGIDA's xenophobic and racist slogans and placards". International scrutiny makes "it all the more important that we say clearly and strongly that PEGIDA does not speak in Germany's name," he said in an interview with daily newspaper Bild. He also said that mobilising crowds with attacks on scapegoats like immigrants and asylum seekers was "easier than by (raising) complex subjects like insufficient infrastructure or the ageing of the population." The movement has also prompted anti-PEGIDA protests in Germany. On Saturday, Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims, condemned the increasing Islamaphobic attacks in Germany, including "insults" against veiled women, mosques "vandalised" and violence against imams. Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-join-anti-islam-rally-germany-worries-image-193024634.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursula Buffay 73 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 These guys are looking for WW3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UC PiXELVISION 353 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 This thread wont be pretty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MahoganySnitch 67 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 These guys are looking for WW3 what kind of an exaggeration Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayo 300 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 there should be an anti stupid rally Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bye 3,947 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 there should be an anti stupid rally It's a free country, you can do that ;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesium 6,022 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Right to protest. Many Muslims have protested much worse in the name of Islam. I personally don't agree with the religion but I'm respectful of those who practise it, as long as they don't try to enforce their view on me. Like any religion, the ones that force it down your throat and tell you you're going to hell if you don't convert as the worst. Like f*ck off, seriously. Put your white tennis shoes on and follow me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray of Light 8,134 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 But those who want to live in Germany should adapt to the reality of the country, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huh 0 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 o_O Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersonic 49,376 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 there should be an anti stupid rally There are actually, and they drew in twice the amount of people that PEGIDA was able to mobilize Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 There are actually, and they drew in twice the amount of people that PEGIDA was able to mobilize I was at the Anti-rally in my city. Now they will never come back to Bonn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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