Skip to main content

Comment : What is PEGIDA ?

comment: As a university student i was not happy when a fellow student in Florence´s  Italian university called me an extra Europea .... it was as if she belonged to an "exclusive club" and it felt like a closed space ....  it reminded me of when i had been called "coloured" by a small child when going to primary school in London in the seventies  (and i didnt know anything about Racism or the white suprematists ) i didnt understand the implications of being from a different race because i was seven years old and had never been called such a thing before.  Later on another university student introduced me to the publication called "línternazionale" which was close to my heart and opinions because it considered all of humanity .....

Just the other day i saw a post on Face book about Brexit (by anöther  Italian friend) and it was about How Britain couldn t survive without being part of the European Union....  this sounded rather funny  since Britain considers and embraces "the rich" from all continents (in my time it was the Iraquies and the Iranians with their petrodollars and even today oil producing and richer economies send their rich to study in Britain.. Traditionally money talks in "English" rather than the European languages, which consider their traditions as more valuble. That is why (in my humble opinion) Britain will live on to prosper .... as it has always done ....    








Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes
PEGIDA LOGO.svg
Logo of Pegida
AbbreviationPegida
Formation11 October 2014[4]
Legal statusEingetragener Verein[5] (registered voluntary association)
PurposeAnti-Islam
Anti-immigration
German nationalism
Far-right politics
Location
Official language
German
Chair
Lutz Bachmann
Websitepegida.de Edit this at Wikidata
Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident[1][6][7] (German: Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes), abbreviated Pegida (German: [peˈɡiːda]), is a German nationalist, anti-Islam, far-right political movement.[8][9] Founded in Dresden in October 2014, Pegida believes that Germany is being increasingly Islamicized[10] and defines itself in opposition to Islamic extremism.
Pegida wants to curb immigration; it accuses authorities of failure to enforce immigration laws.[11] Pegida has held many demonstrations; often there have been many public demonstrations against them as well.[12] In 2015, Lutz Bachmann, the founder of Pegida, resigned from the movement after reportedly posing as Adolf Hitler and making racist statements on Facebook.[13] He was later reinstated.[14]
Offshoots of Pegida have been formed in various countries. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Article from "The New York Times" Madagascar and Vanila plantations Photographs and Text by FINBARR O’REILLY AUG. 29, 2018

 Comment:  I once found a bag near a shopping Mall in Paris ....  It looked like a girl owned it because it was full of makeup bits and pieces and there were a lot of cards in it , one of which belonged to a buisness school and this had her name on it.  The student was from Madagascar and i was sighing to myself when i called the school and the receptionist wasnt helpful in finding the person i was looking for.  I went to the consolate or Embassy one morning , spending money on a Taxi in order to give the bag to a safe person working there.  The consolate reminded me of  consolates or embassies representing very poor countries ...   .... where is  all the money and wealth going ? SAMBAVA, Madagascar — Bright moonlight reflected off broad banana leaves, but it was still hard to see the blue twine laced through the undergrowth, a tripwire meant to send the unwary tumbling to the ground. “This is the way the thieves come,” sai...
Post a Comment
Read more

Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives (from The New Yorker)

Photo Booth Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives By Naomi Fry November 1, 2019 “Houma Teenage Beauty Contest,” 1971. Photographs by Abigail Heyman In a two-page spread featured early on in “ Growing up Female ,” a photography book by Abigail Heyman, from 1974, two black-and-white pictures are laid out side by side. The left-hand photo shows a reflection of a little girl, from the shoulders up, gazing at herself in a bathroom mirror. The child, who is perhaps four or five, with dark, wide-set eyes and a pixie haircut, is separated from her likeness by a counter, whose white-tiled expanse is littered with a variety of beauty products: perfume bottles, creams, and soaps. These quotidian markers of feminine routine are accompanied by an element of fantasy; gazing at herself, the little girl stretches a slinky into a makeshift tiara atop her head. Seemingly mesmerized by her own image, she is captured at the innoce...
Post a Comment
Read more

My mother's family life in Banglore as children (1930's onwards .... and before the Partitian

Life and opinions of Jahan Namazie/Azim Ali ....  written in the summer of 2018 They had this theory that children being small didn't need much food. The choicest food was given to the men, as they were the bread winners so they needed to eat well. The dastarkhan was laid with all the best dishes. The men were served first while the women and children waited patiently till the men finished eating and the leftovers the women and rest of the family ate. Lucky for us we did not practice this in our house. My mother believed men and women were equal and deserved the same opportunities. She made my brothers do house work as well as the girls which was shocking as men had to be waited hand and foot. Men never went into the kitchen or took care of the children. My father had broken the rules, he did the cooking and took care of the children. Every one made fun of him, but he had an excuse as my mother was disabled due to her arthritis and co...
Post a Comment
Read more