First PEGIDA anti-islam protest held in Austria draws small crowd

Protesters, including a few extremists flashing Hitler salutes, demonstrated Monday against perceived "Islamization" in the first rally of its kind in Austria. But the gathering drew only about 250 people, far short of the tens of thousands who have marched in similar rallies in Germany.

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Originating in Dresden last year, PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, has attracted as many as 25,000 people to marches in that eastern German city and smaller crowds elsewhere in Germany. Read more...

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