Germany Anti-Immigrant Protest Grows | The New York Times

In Dresden, an estimated 25,000 protestors took to the streets to protest Germany’s immigration policies.

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[Dyl]

We need this type of protests in feel embarrassed and ashamed that we haven't had something similar yet.

[Del-Canada]

They are not "anti" anything, they are pro Germany. These titles are lame.

[verwijderd]

See all these comments? See all these people? You are not alone.

Europe, it's time for a revolution. It will only get worse if we don't stop it from happening.

We're being humiliated in our own countries... Why? Why let that happen?

Protect our children, culture and race. Protect our lands.

Nationalism is *not* racism

[doinosor]

People don't like being invaded, it stops feeling like home and people feel threatened with the change of their people and culture

[Dyl]

Exactly.
We have many arab and african refugees here in Canada and I've never in my daily life seen one at work. And yet they have good cloths and new cell phones, better economic position/assistance than the natives who have giant unemployment rate and poverty. We don't even have jobs for our own people or the natives and we keep bringing working class replacements over via is anti-nationalism and anti-socialism? This is it.

[englishman]

Germans are a beautiful people they have a great culture and have produced many great people from Karl Benz to Heinrich Hertz. 🇩🇪Germany is a great nation much respect from the UK🇬🇧

[HustlerAtWork]

Germany needs to raise it's fist, big time. Fight!!

[laspalmas]

I am so happy to see the growth of the Far Right. It's about time.
Greetings from Norway, Northern Europe 🇳🇴 🇳🇴

[YAMATO]

That last guy is a fool, Ya, Let them in, All of them. 

[hilayaron]

The last guy is like Chicken support KFC

[walterpaliga]

In 1900 Muslims in Kosovo were only 4% of the population, and in 2007 - 96%.

[JarodG]

Protesting is not enough, it is good but everyone must vote for the right people. Don't vote for neo nazis but do vote for people who will listen to the people.

As an American who cares about the world we must stick together. Their nations need to be liberated and than they need to be sent back, they can take all the money they're making in Europe and they can rebuild back home.

[JulianSojobo]

WAKE UP EUROPE! STOP MADNESS, STOP LIBERAL NONSENSE, STOP ISLAM.
DEFEND YOUR COUNTRY AND FAMILY
Act →NOW← before is too late

[subhashishbagchi]

EUROPE IS FOR EUROPEAN

GERMANY IS FOR GERMAN PEOPLE


LOVE FORM INDIA

[SirLouisX]

Germany and Europe must rise again soon

Germany for Germans!

Europe for Europeans!

[lisbethramirezc]

And after this protest, how many of them went directly to the next-corner döner and had dinner?? -.-

[mothermovementa]

The establishment are ignoring them all.

[lupen_rein]

About 30.000 protesters took to the streets in Saxonia, former east germany, and about 1000 in Westgermany in Hamburg, Saarbrücken and Köln. About 35.000 protested against PEGIDA in Saxonia, and 70.000 in the rest of Germany.
It's Saxonia, a conservative stronghold, that just threw the neonazi party NPD out of the local state assembly in 2014 and is itself often the subject of ridicule, but also economically relatively upstart recently, so they culturally remain very right-wing and don't like to give anything of what they have to people, with whom they have hardly any experience with. After all PEGIDA means "patriotic europeans against the islamization of the occident", while Dresden and Saxonia alike hardly have 0, 2 % muslims.
The PEGIDA and LEGIDA protesters are the same ones, that would have voted the neonazis last year and who think, that Angela Merkel and her CDU party has come too far to the centre and does not represent the latent xenophobes and racists of the country anymore.
Germany is prone to enter a culture war between the right-wing, anti-immigrant part of the population, that defines nationality as being of german ethnicity and heritage and the majority of the population, that sees german nationality as something you gain and identify with and which does not care for your race, ethnicity or creed. The latter comprises in surveys around 70 percent, the former however around 30 percent, still significant. So the numbers of PEGIDA and LEGIDA in all of east germany will rise over the next weeks, the numbers of the anti-PEGIDA protesters might remain stable or slightly increasing.
I hope the latter, pro-immigrant, liberal part of society will win this culture war, but so far it's become so polarized, that it might become somewhat dangerous. The nazi structures in east germany are still alive and well, they will use that polarization for their own goal and maybe will resort to violent means and terrorism, if their needs are not met... It's becoming dangerous.

[emilyhancock]

Oh god, this is a disturbing deja-vu :S

[danieldavid]

The young man towards the end of this video, Sebastian, was either high, when this video was made or, he´s simply a left-`progressive ´ fool! Let everyone into Germany, regardless to what the Germans have to pay - and I don´t just mean, money?