Pegida - Wikipedia. Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Occident) (German: Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes), abbreviated PEGIDA or Pegida, is a Germannationalist, anti- Islam, far- right political movement.[3][4] It was founded in Dresden in October 2. Pegida believes that Germany is being Islamicized[5] and aims to oppose Islamic extremism. Pegida wants to curb immigration, and accuses authorities of not enforcing existing laws.[6] Pegida has held many demonstrations; often there have been many public demonstrations against them as well.[7] In 2. Pegida resigned after being reported as having posed as Adolf Hitler and having made racist statements on Facebook.[8] He was later reinstated.[9]Offshoots of Pegida have been formed in various countries.

History[edit]. Alternate logo used by Pegida.[1. Slogans such as "Violence- free and united against religious and proxy wars on German soil" are commonplace at Pegida rallies.[1. Pegida was founded in October 2. Lutz Bachmann, who runs a public relations agency in Dresden.[1. Bachmann's impetus for starting Pegida was witnessing a rally by supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on 1. October 2. 01. 4 in Dresden,[1.

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You. Tube on the same day.[1. The next day he founded a Facebook group called Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes ("Patriotic Europeans against Islamisation of the Occident").[5][1. A few days earlier, on 7 October a group of Muslims, assumed to be Salafists, had violently attacked PKK supporters who were gathering after a demonstration against ISIL.[1.

The same day Yazidis and Muslim Chechens had violently clashed in Celle.[1. On 2. 6 October, out of 5,0.

Cologne during a demonstration" by "Hooligans Against Salafists".[5] Bachmann mentioned these events in a release for his first demonstration.[1. First wave of demonstrations[edit]The first demonstration or "evening stroll" (according to Pegida)[3] took place on 2. October 2. 01. 4, and only attracted a handful of people.[5][2. During the following days, the movement began gaining wider public attention, and subsequently the weekly Monday demonstrations drew larger numbers of people.

Among the 7,5. 00 participants on 1 December 2. Watch Hypothermia Online Metacritic on this page. The demonstration grew to 1.

December 2. 01. 4.[2. During the weekly demonstrations on Monday evenings, Pegida supporters carried banners with slogans such as "For the preservation of our culture", "Against religious fanaticism, against any kind of radicalism, together without violence", and "Against religious wars on German soil".[2. On 1. 9 December 2. PEGIDA e. V. was legally registered in Dresden under the registration ID VR 7.

Bachmann as chairman, Rene Jahn vice- chairman and Kathrin Oertel as treasurer. Pegida also formally applied for the status of a nonprofit organisation.[2. Aftermath of Charlie Hebdo and rising tensions[edit]While the demonstration on 2. December 2. 01. 4 was cancelled by the organisers, the movement continued to draw large numbers of participants in early January 2. After the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2. Paris, politicians (including ministers Thomas de Maiziere and Heiko Maas) warned Pegida against misusing the attack on Charlie Hebdo for its own political ends. On Saturday 1. 0 January 2.

Pegida protesters gathered to mourn the victims of Paris, observing a minute's silence in front of the Frauenkirche. On 1. 2 January 2. Pegida organisers organised a rally of some 2.

Pegida's main organiser, Bachmann, declared the six central political objectives of Pegida, which include calls for selective immigration and the expulsion of religious extremists, the right and duty to integrate, and tighter internal security.[2. On 1. 5 January 2. Eritrean immigrant, Khaled Idris Bahray, was found stabbed to death in his Dresden high- rise apartment. International media correspondents portrayed an "atmosphere of hatred and resentment" and published social media comments of Pegida sympathisers, who had expressed disdain for the dead Eritrean. Pegida's organisers rejected any possible connection.[2.

One week later, the police investigation led to the arrest and eventual conviction of one of the victim's Eritrean housemates.[2. Pegida demonstration on 2.

January 2. 01. 5Dresden police did not permit the demonstration planned for 1. January 2. 01. 5, due to a definite threat against one of Pegida's leadership members in form of an Arabic- language tweet labelling Pegida an "enemy of Islam".[3. Pegida cancelled its 1. Facebook page that there was an explicit threat against a leadership member, and "his execution had been ordered by ISIS terrorists".[3. Watch Sniper 2 Online Moviesdbz.

Nonetheless, the Pegida demonstrations resumed in full force in the summer and autumn of 2. September.[3. 2]Resignations[edit]On 2. January 2. 01. 5, Bachmann resigned from his position with Pegida after coming under fire for a number of Facebook posts.[3. Excerpts from a closed Facebook conversation incriminated Bachmann as having designated immigrants as "animals", "scumbags"[3. Germany. He was also quoted commenting that extra security was needed at the welfare office "to protect employees from the animals".[3. A self- portrait of Bachmann allegedly posing as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, titled "He's back!" (which the Sächsische Zeitung later discovered to be a forgery, reporting that a moustache was added after the photo was taken),[9] went viral in social media[3.

On another occasion, Bachmann had posted a photo of a man wearing the uniform of the US white supremacist organisation Ku Klux Klan accompanied by the slogan: "Three Ks a day keeps the minorities away".[3. The Dresden state prosecutors opened an investigation for suspected Volksverhetzung (incitement), and Deputy Chancellor. Sigmar Gabriel said the real face of Pegida had been exposed: "Anyone who puts on a Hitler disguise is either an idiot or a Nazi. People should think carefully about running after a Pied Piper like this".[3. Der Spiegel reported that Pegida's media spokeswoman, Kathrin Oertel, turned to the Af. D for advice, and that the Sächsische Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung both confirmed there was a phone conversation between the Af.

D's Frauke Petry and Oertel. Petry said to Oertel that Bachmann should no longer be supported ("Ich habe ihr gesagt, dass Bachmann nicht mehr zu halten ist"). On that same day Oertel announced Bachmann's resignation.[3. Watch Love Story Online Facebook there. On 2. 8 January, Oertel resigned as well, citing "the massive hostility, threats and career disadvantages" as the reason.[3. At the same time four other leading figures of Pegida stepped back.[3.

On 2 February 2. 01. Oertel and six other former Pegida members founded 'Direkte Demokratie für Europa' (Direct Democracy for Europe) to distance themselves from the far- right tendencies of Pegida".[4. Reinstatement[edit]In February 2. Pegida confirmed on its Facebook page that Lutz Bachmann had been re- elected as chairman by the six other members of the organisation’s leadership committee, after the Sächsische Zeitung published a report that the Hitler moustache on the now infamous photo had been added after the photo was taken.[9]Dresden mayoral election, 2. In June 2. 01. 5, following the resignation of CDUincumbent Helma Orosz on health grounds, Tatjana Festerling, who was dismissed from Pegida's leadership circle in June 2.

Dresden, polling 9. NPD.[4. 2] On 7 July 2. Bachmann announced that Pegida would participate in all future federal elections in Germany.[4.