"The concentration camps are sadly out of action" said by angry germans

[Melech 9,900]

"Somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 Germans came together in Dresden on Monday evening to celebrate the founding of Germany's new far-right movement, called Pegida, one year ago. One speaker at the rally, writer Akif Pirincci, condemned immigrants "who pump infidels with their Muslim juice." Pirincci said that "there are other alternatives" to allowing Germany's Muslim population to grow, "but the concentration camps are unfortunately out of action at the moment."

The crowd, according to Deutsche Welle, "applauded and laughed at that."

The rally was the largest Pegida had put together since January, showing that a movement many had thought dead was very much alive. German Cabinet memberssay Pegida's growth is representative of a broader resurgence of xenophobia in Germany — one linked, as many of today's far-right European movements are, to the continent's refugee crisis.

Where the far-right rally came from

 

This guy, Lutz Bachmann, is their leader.

To understand Monday's rally, you need to understand Pegida itself. The name is an acronym; the full name (in English) is Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West. The name makes their grievances pretty obvious: Pegida and its leaders want to stop Muslim immigration into Europe in general, and Germany in particular.

During the movement's rise, Bachmann insisted that Pegida wasn't a neo-Nazi or fascist organization. Their concerns, he said, were solely about the influence of Muslims on German society. "The problem for us is this parallel society, that they don’t accept and respect German law," Bachmann told Time in January. "They say they are living for Sharia law." This message apparently resonated with some Germans: Last December, a Die Zeit poll found that 30 percent of Germans had "full and total" sympathy for Pegida's goals.

But for all of Bachmann's insistence that Pegida isn't neo-Nazi, it's seen as having links to them, and for good reason. Its support base includes neo-Nazis and other extremists. Bachmann's inflammatory rhetoric toward immigrants is a bridge too far for most Germans — he has called immigrants seeking welfare "scumbags" and "animals." Most damning by far was the photo above, in which Bachmann appears to pose as Hitler.

The 2013 image, revealed by the newspaper Bild in January of this year, forced him to resign as leader of Pegida. The next month, he began arguing that the mustache had been photoshopped on, and he was reinstated as Pegida's chairman. But the damage was already done — a number of Pegida leaders had quit in the wake of Bachmann's scandal, and the movement's weekly protests had dwindled to a fraction of their January peak. "For a time, the movement had disappeared almost entirely from public view," a group of Der Spiegel reporters explain.

But the movement hadn't died: In June, a Pegida mayoral candidate in Dresden won almost 10 percent of the vote. And Monday's large rally shows that the movement's so-called decline was clearly temporary. "Pegida is back, apparently more powerful than ever," the Der Spiegel piece concludes.

 

Worryingly, the movement is starting to get violent. This has been particularly directed at reporters, whom Pegida supporters had long condemned as "lying press" — a Nazi-era phrase accusing the media of bias and disloyalty. Reporters in the German region Saxony have warned of a "growing" number of "insults, vandalism, and physical attacks by Pegida supporters," according to Der Spiegel. At Monday's rally, an attendee hit Deutsche Welle reporter Jaafar Abdul Karim in the head.

So Germany has a real far-right problem on its hands — one linked to a refugee crisis that shows no signs of stopping."

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/20/9576809/pegida-germany

 

Not gonna lie, I'm seriously worried about some places in Germany. 

[Serendipity 7,821]

Not every German is like that tho

I have many German friends who are very nice

[Andy McQueen 4,484]

I loathe PEGIDA and Akif Pirinçci - he's homophobic, racist, islamophobic, s-xist, xenophobic, antisemitic and beyond stupid and hateful ... I'm seriously worried by all those dumb right-wing patriots tbh, they scare me with their ignorance, prejudice and lack of empathy and (emotional) intelligence.

 

[Jenniferella 2,775]

Not every German is like that tho

I have many German friends who are very nice

This made me laugh out loud for some reason

[Daredevil 2,133]

Stupid and bigoted people can be found everywhere. Not just in the middle east. 

This is really sad.

[Melech 9,900]

Not every German is like that tho

I have many German friends who are very nice

Did I say anywhere every German? I'm living also in Germany

 

[Melech 9,900]

I loathe PEGIDA and Akif Pirinçci - he's homophobic, racist, islamophobic, s-xist, xenophobic, antisemitic and beyond stupid and hateful ... I'm seriously worried by all those dumb right-wing patriots tbh, they scare me with their ignorance, prejudice and lack of empathy and (emotional) intelligence.

 

He also compared being ethnic German (funny since he is also a child of immigrants) in Germany is today like being Jewish in Nazi Germany

 

[Didymus 34,380]

Good thing these groups aren't dangerous. Even if they'd get a majority vote, their ideals are so extremely opposed to Europe's that they would never be able to do ****. Thank god.

[VersaceKing 419]

People aren't learning from historic mistakes...It's just awful.

 

[Morphine Prince 109,645]

Pathetic people. 

[Melech 9,900]

Good thing these groups aren't dangerous. Even if they'd get a majority vote, their ideals are so extremely opposed to Europe's that they would never be able to do ****. Thank god.

True they are not dangerous on political stage, though I'm a little afraid for refugee camps in that area (mainly Eastern Germany, but it can happen in the West too). Too many of those camps already burned. 

So yeah, politically nothing will happen or rather say it's not very likely, but I fear for the individual

[RAMROD 116,994]

Why is that guy make himself looking like Charlie Chaplin?

Honestly though, I believe there will be even more frictions between nationalists and Muslim refugees in Europe now that even many of them coming in.

These kind of extreme groups can get even bigger in 10-15 years ahead because many people changing their stand and join them because of the lack of jobs and more.

[Alcina Dimitrescu 1,157]

can Integr happen irl too to counter balance it?

 

[Qualle1 1,385]

I am very sorry, but this article is biased and also a misinterpretstion of facts.

[Melech 9,900]

I am very sorry, but this article is biased and also a misinterpretstion of facts.

what is biased there?