Thousands of people took to the streets of downtown Dresden on October 16 to show support for Germany's anti-Islam PEGIDA movement. The rally was organised to celebrate the group’s second anniversary.

PEGIDA, which stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, made its mark on the political agenda with its first anti-Islam march in the eastern German city in October 2014 and then spread to other cities.

As reported by the Reuters news agency, police did not give any ...