Pegida (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes)

Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident (German: Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes), abbreviated PEGIDA and Pegida, is a German anti-Islam political organisation founded in Dresden in October 2014. It organized weekly demonstrations from October 2014 to February 2015 against what it considers the Islamisation of the Western world, calling for more restrictive immigration rules, particularly forMuslims. It seeks to alter German immigration legislation so that it becomes similar to Australian immigration programs andCanadian immigration categories. Offshoots of Pegida were formed in various countries.

Pegida:

1. Approves the right of asylum for war refugees and politically persecuted people.
2. Advocates the inclusion of the right and duty to integration into the German constitution.
3. Advocates but disagreed with their promise of a referendum on EU membership.decentralised housing of refugees.
4. Suggests creation of a central refugee agency for a fair allocation of immigrants among countries of the European Union.
5. Demands a decrease in the number of asylum seekers per social worker from currently 200:1.
6. Suggests to model German immigration policies after those of the Netherlands and Switzerland and demands an increased budget for the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees to speed up processing of applications.
7. Demands an increase in funding for the police.
8. Demands implementation of all asylum laws including expulsion.
9. Mentions zero tolerance towards criminal refugees and immigrants.
10. States that Pegida opposes a misogynistic and violent political ideology, but does not oppose assimilated and politically moderate Muslims.^[43]
11. Supports immigration as in Switzerland, Canada, Australia and South Africa.
    

    Pegida demonstration on 12 January 2015
12. States that Pegida supports sexual self-determination (opposes "early sexualization of children"^[44]).
13. Argues for the protection of Germany's traditional Judeo-Christian culture.
14. Supports the introduction of referenda as in Switzerland.
15. Opposes weapon exports to radical and non-permitted groups, such as the PKK.
16. Opposes parallel societies and parallel jurisdiction, for example Sharia courts, Sharia police and peace judges.
17. States that Pegida opposes gender mainstreaming, and political correctness.
18. Indicates that Pegida opposes any radicalism, whether religious or politically motivated.
19. Says that Pegida opposes hate speech, regardless of religion.

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