For the first time in months, supporters of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement in Germany took to the streets of Dresden on Monday evening.
Several hundred movement followers congregated in the Napenett area, and Lotus Bakhanman, the president of Bejida, who was classified as an extremist right by the Constitution Protection Authority (Internal Intelligence), also joined the group.
It is interesting to notice that the term Begida, which translates to “European Europeans against the Islamization of the West,” is an acronym for Germany in German.
Before the beginning of the Begida march, a counter-demonstration with about the same number of people, the majority of whom were young, addressed the city’s centre.
Begida “will not move away with such simplicity,” it is said in the invitation for the movement’s march.
It was the movement’s final protest in April of last year.
The leadership of Begida made an appeal to its supporters in May, encouraging protests on Monday.
It is interesting that the Begida movement has been under the scrutiny of the Saxony state’s Constitution Protection Authority since last May under the guise of “provincial desire.”
For the first time in months, Germany’s anti-Islam Bejaida movement takes to the streets.
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