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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Pegida UK is an anti-Islamisation movement in the United Kingdom established by former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson. It is the UK branch of the German movement Pegida.On the 4th of January 2016, Tommy Robinson made it known in a press conference in Toddington, Bedfordshire that Paul Weston (chairman of Liberty GB), who was arrested after quoting Winston Churchill in 2014, and former Labour candidate Anne Marie Waters (chairman of Sharia Watch), who was forced to cancel a \"Draw Mohammed\" event, were joining him as members of the Pegida leadership team. In the same conference, Robinson stated that he had traveled around Europe \"in the last few months,\" spending time in the Czech Republic and Germany, including Dresden, where Pegida began. The Huffington Post reports that he was seen on the platform during Pegida's anniversary in Dresden on the 19th of October 2015 addressing a crowd of 40,000 people.Robinson said that he hoped Pegida UK would be different from the EDL, that it would attract a more \"middle-class\" demographic, and would discourage the \"loutish behaviour and alcohol-fueled violence\" of the EDL. Robinson seeks a halt to Muslim immigration, the closure of sharia courts, a ban on the wearing of the burqa, and a moratorium on mosque construction, to stop Islamic activity.Two days after Tommy Robinson announced that he, Anne Marie Waters, and Paul Weston were launching Pegida UK, Robinson was arrested on charges relating to a 2014 prison fight, in which he claims to have acted in self-defense. He says he was put together with Muslim extremists by prison authorities, after which a Somali Muslim was persuaded to try to attack him with boiling water. The Spectator's Douglas Murray has described Robinson's arrest as worrying to journalists and advocates of freedom of expression, in light of the fact that he was expressing his views on Islam and immigration and that police had dropped the case in 2015.Pegida UK's launch event was a silent march in Birmingham, on the 6th of February 2016. It drew a crowd of over 340 supporters, with a smaller counter-demonstration also taking place. The Guardian reported the number in attendance as approximately 200. Tommy Robinson announced that these events would be repeated in Birmingham, which is known for having a very large Muslim population, on the first Saturday of every month starting the 2nd of April 2016. Paul Weston also addressed the crowd."@en }

• Pegida_UK abstract "Pegida UK is an anti-Islamisation movement in the United Kingdom established by former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson. It is the UK branch of the German movement Pegida.On the 4th of January 2016, Tommy Robinson made it known in a press conference in Toddington, Bedfordshire that Paul Weston (chairman of Liberty GB), who was arrested after quoting Winston Churchill in 2014, and former Labour candidate Anne Marie Waters (chairman of Sharia Watch), who was forced to cancel a \"Draw Mohammed\" event, were joining him as members of the Pegida leadership team. In the same conference, Robinson stated that he had traveled around Europe \"in the last few months,\" spending time in the Czech Republic and Germany, including Dresden, where Pegida began. The Huffington Post reports that he was seen on the platform during Pegida's anniversary in Dresden on the 19th of October 2015 addressing a crowd of 40,000 people.Robinson said that he hoped Pegida UK would be different from the EDL, that it would attract a more \"middle-class\" demographic, and would discourage the \"loutish behaviour and alcohol-fueled violence\" of the EDL. Robinson seeks a halt to Muslim immigration, the closure of sharia courts, a ban on the wearing of the burqa, and a moratorium on mosque construction, to stop Islamic activity.Two days after Tommy Robinson announced that he, Anne Marie Waters, and Paul Weston were launching Pegida UK, Robinson was arrested on charges relating to a 2014 prison fight, in which he claims to have acted in self-defense. He says he was put together with Muslim extremists by prison authorities, after which a Somali Muslim was persuaded to try to attack him with boiling water. The Spectator's Douglas Murray has described Robinson's arrest as worrying to journalists and advocates of freedom of expression, in light of the fact that he was expressing his views on Islam and immigration and that police had dropped the case in 2015.Pegida UK's launch event was a silent march in Birmingham, on the 6th of February 2016. It drew a crowd of over 340 supporters, with a smaller counter-demonstration also taking place. The Guardian reported the number in attendance as approximately 200. Tommy Robinson announced that these events would be repeated in Birmingham, which is known for having a very large Muslim population, on the first Saturday of every month starting the 2nd of April 2016. Paul Weston also addressed the crowd.".