Major Anti-Muslim Group Pegida to Launch Branch in Ireland
Ireland will become the 15th country to establish its own branch of the organization. The German group will in future run in German elections and the Irish group may well follow suit, the Irish Times reported.
Pegida is a German acronym which stands for the "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West.”
Wooing supporters for its anti-Muslim and anti-asylum-seeker agenda, PEGIDA began to launch rallies in October 2014 and managed to attract thousands of supporters across the country.
Scandals and other sources of infamy, however, prompted a mass resignation by its leaders, which caused the group to almost disappear from the German political arena.
It has, however, staged a comeback as the country faces an influx of refugees fleeing conflicts in different parts of the world and after terrorist attacks by the ISIL Takfiri group in several countries.
