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Pegida: The New German Revolution
by Peter Martino
• January 15, 2015 at 5:00 am
Pegida's
worries about the Islamization of Germany concern the seeming intolerance and
religious fanaticism that have grown hand-in-hand with the arrival of the
Muslim populations unwilling to adapt to Western values.
The
terror attacks in France Had "nothing to do with Islam." — German
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière.
By
decrying Pegida's views as "xenophobic," narrow minded" and
even "inhuman," Germany's ruling establishment shows how deeply out
of touch it is with the worries of a large segment of the population.
Perhaps
the people in the East just want to avoid the situation that the Western part
of the country is in. Having gone through decades of Communist dictatorship,
perhaps they are less inclined to trust that their political leaders have the
people's best interests in mind with their policies.
Every Monday evening since last October, thousands of citizens have
marched through the city of Dresden as well as other German cities to protest
the Islamization of their country. They belong to an organization,
established only three months ago, called Pegida, the German abbreviation for
"Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West."
Pegida is a democratic grassroots organization, without origins in the
far-left, far-right or links to any political parties, domestic or foreign.
The French Front National [FN] of Marine Le Pen even made it clear
that it wants nothing to do with "spontaneous initiatives" such as
Pegida. According to the FN, "something like Pegida cannot be a
substitute for a party."
Turkey's
Staggering "Shoeboxgate"
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Reza Zarrab, an Iranian businessman, was accused of
running a network that laundered at least $87 billion to bypass
international sanctions on Iran, and bribing ministers, their sons and
senior public officials in Turkey.
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