SIAD demonstration in 2015 | |
Formation | 2005 |
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Type | Anti-Islam |
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Leader | Anders Gravers Pedersen |
Affiliations | Stop Islamisation of Europe |
Stop Islamisation of Denmark ( Danish: Stop Islamiseringen af Danmark, SIAD) is a Danish anti-Islam organisation founded in 2005. [1] The group was founded by Anders Gravers Pedersen who began the development of the activist part of the counter-jihad movement. [2]
The organisation considers its work to be comparable to the resistance movement during the Second World War, and a report by the Danish Center for Social Science Research on extremist movements in 2014 designated the group as "radical right". [3]
The group has been active in campaigning against the building of mosques in Denmark and has staged free speech demonstrations in relation to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. In 2007 the group protested outside of the European Union headquarters in Brussels, [4] and launched the Europe-wide Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) following the international counter-jihad conference in Copenhagen. [1]
In 2013 a few dozen SIAD-demonstrators protested against discrimination against Jews. Counter-demonstrators fired off maroons and roman candles, and 32 counter-demonstrators were arrested. [5]
The group announced several demonstrations in a "Denmark tour" in 2015, at the same time that a new anti-Islam group, Pegida Denmark also began its demonstrations. [6] [7]
SIAD demonstration in 2015 | |
Formation | 2005 |
---|---|
Type | Anti-Islam |
Location |
|
Leader | Anders Gravers Pedersen |
Affiliations | Stop Islamisation of Europe |
Stop Islamisation of Denmark ( Danish: Stop Islamiseringen af Danmark, SIAD) is a Danish anti-Islam organisation founded in 2005. [1] The group was founded by Anders Gravers Pedersen who began the development of the activist part of the counter-jihad movement. [2]
The organisation considers its work to be comparable to the resistance movement during the Second World War, and a report by the Danish Center for Social Science Research on extremist movements in 2014 designated the group as "radical right". [3]
The group has been active in campaigning against the building of mosques in Denmark and has staged free speech demonstrations in relation to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. In 2007 the group protested outside of the European Union headquarters in Brussels, [4] and launched the Europe-wide Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) following the international counter-jihad conference in Copenhagen. [1]
In 2013 a few dozen SIAD-demonstrators protested against discrimination against Jews. Counter-demonstrators fired off maroons and roman candles, and 32 counter-demonstrators were arrested. [5]
The group announced several demonstrations in a "Denmark tour" in 2015, at the same time that a new anti-Islam group, Pegida Denmark also began its demonstrations. [6] [7]