A spectre is haunting Germany and Europe and the spectre is called PEGIDA. Until recently only few people had heard of PEGIDA, acronym for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident". It started as a small protest movement in the eastern city of Dresden against the influx of immigrants, foreign workers and asylum seekers and, above all, against the "islamisation" of Germany.
Adopting the slogan "We are the people" of the weekly anti-communist demonstrations in 1989 which ultimately led to the overthrow of the German Democratic Republic, PEGIDA's appeal seems to have grown week after week. The hundreds of demonstrators of the first few Monday evening "walks" in Dresden have swollen to tens of thousands. Besides Dresden there are now similar weekly rallies in other big German cities.
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