MUNICH – (MunichNOW News) — Momentum has been building with a protest movement in Germany, while counter demonstrations show that the citizens are beginning to take this seriously. A few months ago in the Saxon city of Dresden, a grassroots movement called “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West” or PEGIDA sprouted up seemingly out of nowhere. What began as a few hundred protesters in October grew to crowds of roughly 15,000 last week and more than 17,000 on Monday evening. The protesters in Dresden insist that this is a movement of ‘patriots’ and that they are speaking up for the rest of the German populace which is too frightened to openly question the government’s policies on immigration and asylum seekers. Although many of the protesters insist that they have no connection to Nazis or any right-wing movements, the counter demonstrations both in Dresden and in various cities around the country ridiculed the not-so-subtle xenophobia of PEGIDA. Here in Munich
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