What is "pegida"

Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West ( Occident) , abbreviated PEGIDA or Pegida, is a nationalist, anti-Islam, far-right political movement founded in Dresden in October 2014 that aims to resist what it sees as a threat posed by Islamic extremism, Islamisation and calling for the enforcement of existing laws to curb immigration, particularly for those Muslims whom it views as refusing to integrate. Offshoots of Pegida have been formed in various countries.