Anti-Islamic protesters gathered again Monday of last week in Dresden, Germany. This has been the 12th march in Dresden that is led by the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA. These protest started October 20th with a little over 360 participants but the most recent protest had over 18,000 protesters. Some of them were even carrying banners with the names of those killed in the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. The PEGIDA claim to have supporters in over 30 German cities and 18 different countries. On their Facebook page PEGIDA has been telling citizens that they should "wake up from their slumber and recognize the danger in Islamic ideology" and things such as "Stop the radical Salfists' Islamization."
They are obviously gaining in size and power but they don't realize is that not all people who are Islamic are like the people of terrorist organizations such as ISIS
What do you think about this new group? Do you think what they are doing is right?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/12/europe/germany-anti-islam-marches/
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Good topic. Perhaps your questions could be stronger but overall-good!
I think they need to understand that only the terrorists are extremist, it doesn't mean that all the muslims are bad.
Not a lot Muslims are extremist but it only takes a few to ruin it for everyone else
Not all islamic people are bad. Just ISIS
What makes it worse is ISIS claims they represent all Muslims.
I think that this is terrible and this group is going to do bad things. I dont like how people judge so quickly though that all Islamic people are bad because thats not true.
I think every group formed is getting more and more stubborn. These people are horrible. I mean, yea they are putting their word out against the attacks, but they cannot just assume that each and every person of Islamic ethnicity is as terrible as the next. These people need to open their eyes, and realize that racism and anger is controlling most of their actions.
Couldn't agree more.
I think is horrible. Yes the attacks by ISIS and other terrorist groups are terrible, but people can't go around assuming that all people of the Islamic faith are terrorists or bad people. Things like this are just going to cause bigger problems in the world. People need to learn to be accepting of others instead of judging them based off of stereotypes.