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Anti-Islam PEGIDA Rally in Austria Dwarfed by Counter-Demo
2015-02-10
Unfortunately, it looks like the PEGIDA movement has fizzled.
[AnNahar] The first protest in the Austrian city of Linz by Germany's "anti-Islamization" movement PEGIDA drew just 150 supporters Sunday and was dwarfed by a counter-demo by some 2,000 people, police said.

A planned PEGIDA march through the center of the northern city was abandoned after several hundred counter-demonstrators blocked their way, chanting "Auf Wiedersehen" ("Goodbye"), the Austria Press Agency reported.

During a standoff lasting around an hour a few snowballs were thrown there were no incidents of violence. "There were no arrests," a police front man told Agence La Belle France-Presse.

He also said that unlike at last Monday's PEGIDA march in Vienna, the first in Austria, police did not see any raised-arm Hitler salutes or "Sieg Heil" chants.
Unlike the other, no idiots choosing to give the movement a bad name.
PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident) marches began in the German city of Dresden last year with several hundred supporters and snowballed to reach 25,000 people on January 12.

But numbers have fallen since the movement's founder stepped down on January 21 after a picture surfaced of him posing as Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
Possibly just being silly, but that's a red button in Germany.
Other senior figures have also since resigned.
Threatened with the real possibility of violence, they folded. The colonizers don't like it when their aboriginals start getting uppity.
Small offshoots of PEGIDA have sprung up in other German cities and marches have taken place in the Czech Republic, Denmark and Norway, involving however only a few hundred people.

Unlike in Germany, Austria has a strong far-right party in the Freedom Party (FPOe), the third-largest in parliament with around 20-percent support and which has long campaigned against immigration and "Islamization".
Except that, like the TEA party movement in America, it started out tied neither to right nor left.
"In Austria the FPOe has always been the real PEGIDA. We have always taken seriously the problems to do with Islamism," the party's leader Heinz-Christian Strache told NEWS magazine in a recent interview.
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