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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. 

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