{"id":17259,"date":"2014-12-17T17:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17259"},"modified":"2014-12-17T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:40:37","slug":"thousands-rally-in-dresden-against-criminal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17259","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rally in Dresden against criminal immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, an estimated 15,000 people joined Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West, in a march through Dresden, Germany, carrying banners bearing slogans such as \u201cZero tolerance towards criminal asylum seekers\u201d, \u201cProtect our homeland\u201d and \u201cStop the Islamisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglo-Saxon presstitutes were\u00a0unsurprisingly wild-eyed with indignation about\u00a0the &#8220;extremists&#8221;, but could find no Nazi&#8217;s at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>Lutz Bachmann, the head of Pegida, a nascent anti-immigration\u00a0campaign group, led the crowds, either waving or draped in German flags, in peacefully chanting\u00a0\u201cWir sind das Volk\u201d, or \u201cWe are the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The slogan was adopted by protesters in the historic \u201cMonday demonstrations\u201d against the East German government in the runup to the fall of the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n<p>According to the British Guardian &#8220;unnamed sources&#8221; in the rally said Muslims were &#8220;plotting to infect German\u00a0food chain with their excrement&#8221;, but the &#8220;sources&#8221; were probably from the Guardian itself.<\/p>\n<p>It was the ninth week in a row that Pegida had taken its protest to the city\u2019s streets in the eastern German state of Saxony, but\u00a0nobody looked worried about tainted food. Rather they\u00a0decried the recent decision by local politicians to increase the number of homes for asylum seekers, inviting more\u00a0in.<\/p>\n<p>Its first march, advertised on Facebook and other social media, attracted just 200 supporters. By last week the figure had risen to 10,000. By Monday night it had grown to an estimated 15,000.<\/p>\n<p>A middle-aged woman in a red leather jacket, said she was shocked that \u201casylum seekers in Germany have expensive mobile phones, while I cannot afford such luxury and others still cannot afford to eat properly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There were no\u00a0racist slogans and marchers spoke of\u00a0the \u201cdemise of the West\u201d due to the rise of Islam,\u00a0salafism, sexual abandon and licentiousness.<\/p>\n<p>Old and young men and women, including families with children in pushchairs, many of whom said they had no political affiliation, joined the march.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two-thirds of Germans, according to a poll for news magazine Spiegel by the TNS institute, believe that Angela Merkel\u2019s government is not doing enough to address concerns about immigration and asylum seekers, and 34% think Germany is enduring a process of \u201cIslamisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Anglo-Saxon press, these citizens should all qualify as Nazi&#8217;s while the foreigners and immigrants are &#8220;open-minded&#8221; folks who refuse to speak German.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian went beyond the farcical in denouncing the rally,\u00a0claiming\u00a0that Germans &#8220;bark&#8221; when they speak.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Bachmann, a 41-year-old butcher\u2019s son who runs a PR agency, Pegida has many clones\u00a0across Germany. Legida is the name of the Leipzig branch, Bogida the Bonn branch, while in Darmstadt it is known as Dagida.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent rally in Dresden, Bachmann\u2019s hometown, he explained\u00a0that while asylum seekers enjoyed luxury accommodation, many impoverished German pensioners were \u201cunable to even afford a single slice of Stollen\u201d (German Christmas cake).<\/p>\n<p>Bachmann maintains that\u00a0he plays\u00a0a small part of the movement.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m just a small cog in a much bigger wheel,\u201d he told the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung in a rare interview.<\/p>\n<p>German resentment over a sharp rise in the number of refugees seeking political asylum in Germany, many from war-torn countries including Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq, has grown in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>All these countries have been ravaged by Anglo-Saxon meddling and expansionist imperial policies.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, a newly refurbished home for asylum seekers in Nuremberg in southern Germany was badly damaged in an\u00a0arson attack. Anti-foreigner slogans and swastikas were found daubed on the walls.<\/p>\n<p>The attack may have come from\u00a0worried security\u00a0agents desperate\u00a0to smear Pegida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, an estimated 15,000 people joined Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West, in a march through Dresden, Germany, carrying banners bearing slogans such as \u201cZero tolerance towards criminal asylum seekers\u201d, \u201cProtect our homeland\u201d and \u201cStop the Islamisation\u201d. The Anglo-Saxon presstitutes were\u00a0unsurprisingly wild-eyed with indignation about\u00a0the &#8220;extremists&#8221;, but could find no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thousands rally in Dresden against criminal immigrants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[10732,4455,10686,10733,915,10685],"class_list":["post-17259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-agents","tag-anti-immigration","tag-dresden","tag-farcical","tag-islamisation","tag-pegida"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17263,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17259\/revisions\/17263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}