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Supporters of anti-immigration right-wing movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) take part in in demonstration rally, in reaction to mass assaults on women on New Year’s Eve, in Cologne, Germany, January 9, 2016. Placard reads: ‘ Yesterday applauded. Today grabbed’ REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
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Thousands of people demonstrate against a rally called by anti-Islam group PEGIDA in Cologne, Germany, on January 5, 2015.
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Opinion: Europe Between Fear and Hope
For the past six months the German city of Dresden has been the site of gatherings every Monday under the banner of “Saving Europe from Islamization.” The group that started the exercise calls itself “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West” (PEGIDA),...Caption:
A participant of a rally called Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) waves with a German flag during a demonstration, and another demonstrator carries a banner with the word, “Foreign in our own country? Never,” in Dresden, Germany, on January 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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