AIVD jaarverslag 2015

Note Kafka at GISS analysis on Pegida

The AIVD can from the opportunities they have to do good research on right-wing extremism in the Netherlands. Nevertheless, this research may lead to poor analysis. The interpretation of the anti-Islamic protest movement Pegida is an example of such bad (for one-dimensional) analysis.

According to GISS Pegida unsolicited assisted by right-wing extremists, who seek confrontations with anti-fascist counter-demonstrators. The counter-demonstrators bring Pegida in a negative light by distributing pictures of this right-wing extremists. GISS generates based on this analysis, the suggestion that Pegida is not a right-wing extremist organization.

The service stores here wrong with the board because it ignores some facts that certainly places the extreme right Pegida Netherlands.

– Pegida Netherlands is partly due to the Dutch Defence League. An extreme right-wing organization that opposes "the EU, Islamization and sharia in the Netherlands ", while collaborates with various other far-right individuals and organizations.

– From the very first demonstration Pegida Netherlands works together with activists of right-wing extremist organizations, which form part of the organization Pegida-. Initially it Identitair Resistance, later Outpost. Also with organizations Protesters Against Municipalities and the Dutch Association's Pegida alliances.

– One of the founders of Pegida Netherlands argues in her speech at the first demonstration to hate Muslims and despise. They shall then seek an unusual step to biological explanations for her ideas about Muslims. Unusual, biological theories because the domain normally be convinced neo-Nazis. It is not surprising that the Prosecution announced a day after the protest to investigate whether these expressions are punishable. The founder is still active in Pegida.

– Pegida Netherlands opposes Islam and against migration and positioned by the tone and content used in the extreme right spectrum. That a large part of the far-right movement is positively associated with Pegida therefore not surprising, After all, they share a political agenda. The presence of the Pegida Netherlands frame on Outpost demonstration 21 april 2016 Middelburg is outside the research area of ​​the GISS analysis for the year 2015. But it confirms the picture of Pegida as extreme right-wing organization.

The above facts show provides a more complete picture about Pegida the AIVD. There is no question of an unsolicited involvement of the extreme right with Pegida. Pegida is currently a major player in the extreme right-wing movement in the Netherlands.