Anger over a wave of sexual assaults that occurred across the EU on New Year’s Eve reached a boiling point in Germany on Saturday when some 1,700 people attended a rally organized by the anti-Muslim PEGIDA movement.
PEGIDA, which nearly fizzled early last year, gained in popularity as hundreds of thousands of Mid-East asylum seekers responded to Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy by flooding across Germany’s borders. Initially, many Germans met the the migrants with hugs and gifts, but as the months wore on, sentiment gradually soured and attendance at PEGIDA rallies once again spiked with as many as 20,000 people showing up for an October demonstration.
Seeking to capitalize off the assaults that were allegedly perpetrated by groups of marauding Arab refugees in Cologne, PEGIDA took to the streets this weekend and predictably, clashes with riot police ensued.
“Demonstrators, some of whom bore tattoos with far-right symbols such as a skull in a German soldier’s helmet, had chanted ‘Merkel must go’ and ‘this is the march of the national resistance’”, Reuters writes. Another banner read: “Rapefugees not welcome.”
Funny the new German stasi couldn’t get enough troopers on the streets during the New Year celebration to control the muz invaders, but they did manage to go all in for this rally -- apparently including fire hoses and tear gas.
In ganz Deutschland, und ganz Europa, die Wahrheit wird mit viel beweis beleuchtet -- -- Muslime sind dämonen.
Wir sind friedlich. Sie sind nicht. Sie sind plünderer; vergewaltiger; und mörder. Die verächtliche, hasserfüllt, elend menschen vorstellen kann. Sie müssen gehen. Alle von ihnen. Jetzt. Ja! Jetzt sofort!
Dies ist die einzige friedliche lösung. Andernfalls; sie, nicht gehen wird, werden wir zu vertreiben. Wir müssen. Unsere Existenz verlangt.