Participants hold German national flags during a demonstration called by anti-immigration group PEGIDA in Dresden

Participants hold German national flags during a demonstration called by anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West”, in Dresden December 15, 2014. Several thousands opponents of Germany’s policy towards asylum seekers and Islam took part in the protest in the eastern German town on Monday. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY – Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)