Is that correct?
You don't attract followers to your movement by declaring that you are violent or want to overthrow the government. However, there has been violence.
The European migrant crisis revived the movement, which drew as many as 20,000 supporters to a 19 October 2015 rally in Dresden. At the same time, observers perceived a further radicalization of the crowd.
On 28 September, two journalists were injured, when Pegida participants kicked a local newspaper reporter and punched another TV reporter in the face. On 12 October, Pegida demonstrators carried a mock gallows showing nooses reserved for Chancellor Angela Merkel and her deputy Sigmar Gabriel.
At Pegida's anniversary event on 19 October 2015, keynote speaker Akif Pirinçci named the Muslim refugees as invaders, with Germany as becoming a "Muslim garbage dump." Pirinçci said the German government was acting like "Gauleiter against their own people," as they wanted critics of Germany's refugee policy to leave the country. Addressing the crowd shouting "Resistance!", he claimed that "there were other alternatives – but the concentration camps are unfortunately out of order at the moment." The crowd applauded and laughed, and let him continue his speech for another 20 minutes before calling upon him to finish.
The New Year's eve attacks by Muslims on German women in Cologne and other German cities have raised the temperature even higher. PEGIDA will only increase in size despite being castigated by the MSM and the political elites. The MSM can no longer hide the crime and violence being perpetrated by the migrants.
Unless you have direct contact with the Germans living there, you can't appreciate the growing anger and frustration. And it will only get worse as the effects of this mass migration manifest themselves. It is happening all over Europe no matter how the MSM and the political elites try to hide it.