Germany's Anti-Islam PEGIDA Cancels Rally Due To Terror Risks

[Purveyor]

Source: Xinhua


BERLIN, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Germany's anti-Islam movement PEGIDA announced Sunday to cancel a planned weekly demonstration in Dresden because of terror risks.

"According to the police, there is a specific threat against a member of the organization team," said PEGIDA on its Facebook account in an statement about the decision to cancel its 13th gathering in the eastern German city slated for the upcoming Monday.

PEGIDA marches began in Dresden with several hundred supporters in October and have steadily grown in the number of participants. About 25,000 people have reportedly participated in Monday's protest, five days after the attacks in Paris that claimed 17 lives.

German leading news magazine Der Spiegel reported Friday that foreign intelligence agencies had intercepted discussions by radical Islamists about possible attacks on the planned rallies.


Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/europe/europe/2015-01/18/c_133928060.htm

[Fred Sanders]

1. They lie. Cowards.

[Yo_Mama]

2. PEGIDA - no, they're not lying. The German police did tell them about the threat,

The German press was reporting that supposedly the plan was to infiltrate bombers into the crowd, so the threat of violence forced the police to ban all demonstrations in Dresden on Monday (there would at least have been a counter-demonstration).

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/morddrohung-gegen-pegida-organisator-bestaetigt-13377588.html

I believe the police order was issued first, then the organizers also called off the demonstration.
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/terrorgefahr-polizei-untersagt-alle-demonstrationen-in-dresden-13377119.html

For the those who don't read German, here are crappy google translated versions:
https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.faz.net%2Faktuell%2Fpolitik%2Fmorddrohung-gegen-pegida-organisator-bestaetigt-13377588.html&edit-text=

https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.faz.net%2Faktuell%2Fpolitik%2Fterrorgefahr-polizei-untersagt-alle-demonstrationen-in-dresden-13377119.html

[Bosonic]

3. German police ban anti-Islamic rally citing terror threat

German police ban anti-Islamic rally citing terror threat

Dresden (Germany) (AFP) - German police banned a planned rally by the anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement and other public open-air gatherings in the eastern city of Dresden Monday, citing a terrorist threat.

Dresden police said Sunday they had received information from federal and state counterparts indicating a "concrete threat" against the right-wing populist group "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident".

There had been calls for would-be "assassins to mingle among the protesters... and to murder an individual member of the organising team of the PEGIDA demonstrations", police said in a notice on the 24-hour ban.

This was consistent with "an Arabic-language tweet that called the PEGIDA demonstrations an enemy of Islam", it said.

http://news.yahoo.com/german-anti-islam-pegida-cancels-rally-over-death-001813051.html;_ylt=AwrBJR5rR7xUDW8AjPHQtDMD

[jtuck004]

4. I was reading the below and found yours...

http://truth-out.org/news/item/28800-first-anti-islam-march-by-pegida-movement-fizzles-in-denmark

In that article is a paragraph

...
Nativism and a pervasive fear of "Islamization" are at the heart of the Pegida movement. Sennels (an unsuccessful Danish People's Party candidate for election to the Danish Parliament in 2011, born in 1976) is a harsh critic of Islam in general and of Muslims' immigration to Denmark and Europe, in particular. Countering accusations that "Islamophobia" is at the heart of his beliefs, Sennels instead advocates the term "Islamonausea" instead "to describe a feeling of nausea, disgust, displeasure, discomfort or aversion that arises by itself when encountering Islam or Islamic culture, or whatever or whoever represents it."
...

I think more people ought to take a lesson from what he said. They aren't afraid, they hate. But he is being deceitful when it says it "arises by itself". It is a coached hate, a supported and nurtured hate.

(Which is how I view the 1%. They aren't afraid of the rest, they are reviled by them. That's why they put in so many showers. We give them too much respect, and money.)

Anyway, interesting post. One of the places I would like to live the rest of my life in, I think.