Markus Beisicht

Markus Beisicht was described in 2007 by Der Spiegel as, along with Manfred Rouhs, one of the 'party chiefs' of Pro NRW, a far-right populist political grouping which emerged from Pro Köln as did the anti-Islam Pro Bürgerbewegung network. Its activities centrally involved opposition to the building of mosques.German far-right trying to gain support for "anti-Islam" party, Text of report by independent German news magazine Der Spiegel website on 31 December, [Report by Andrea Brandt and Guido Kleinhubert: "Playing With Fear; Cologne Radicals Want To Enter the Parliaments With the First 'Anti-Islam Party' - Constitutional Protection Officials Are Alarmed - And so Is the NPD"], BBC Monitoring Europe - Political, 31 December 2007..
Hope Not Hate calls Beisicht, a 'fascist activist' and lawyer.The Counterjihad Movement: the global trend feeding anti-Muslim hate, Hope Not Hate, 2011, p63.
==2007: Austrian Freedom Party, Front National and Vlaams Belang contact==
In November 2007, Beisicht delivered a paper on anti-mosque campaigning in Cologne to members of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) at the Gothensaal in Graz, Austria. He invited members of the Freedom Party, France's Front National and Belgium's Vlaams Belang to an 'Anti-Islam Congress' in Cologne the following September.German far-right trying to gain support for "anti-Islam" party, Text of report by independent German news magazine Der Spiegel website on 31 December, [Report by Andrea Brandt and Guido Kleinhubert: "Playing With Fear; Cologne Radicals Want To Enter the Parliaments With the First 'Anti-Islam Party' - Constitutional Protection Officials Are Alarmed - And so Is the NPD"], BBC Monitoring Europe - Political, 31 December 2007.
==2008: Cities Against Islamisation initiative==
Beisicht was listed alongside Heinz Christian Strache of the FPÖ and Robert Spieler as signatory to a charter against 'increasing Islamization of our cities' on the Cities against Islamisation (CAI) website. CIA was an anti-Muslim initiative launched in in Antwerp on 17 January 2008Conference 'Cities against Islamization', Cities against Islamisation, 18 January 2008. by Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang.Conference 'Cities against Islamization', Cities against Islamisation, 18 January 2008. 
In an email to Robert Spencer, Wim Van Osselaer of Vlaams Belang denied claims, reported by Agence France Presse"Agence France Press, Right-wingers gather against 'Islamisation', The Australian, 18 January 2008. among others, that the far-right British National Party were present at the conference.Robert Spencer, Cities Against Islamisation Charter, Jihad Watch, 23 January 2008.
==2009: Controversial Cologne conference==
Pro NRW was due to host an 'anti-Islamisation conference' in Cologne on 8-10 May 2009Anti-Islamisierungs-Kongress 2009, Pro-NRW, accessed via Web Archive 19 January 2015. at which Beisicht was due to speak alongside Filip Dewinter, Lars Hedegaard, Paul Belien and others.[http://www.pro-koeln-online.de/artikel09/230409_pam.htm Wilders-Vertraute Pamela Geller auf Pressekonferenz zum Anti-Islamisierungskongreß in Köln! BÜRGERBEWEGUNG PRO KÖLN E.V., 23 April 2009. Both Robert SpencerRobert Spencer, Hamas-linked CAIR defames me again, again using libelblogger Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs talking points, JihadWatch, 24 April 2009. and Pamela Geller pulled out of the conference.Pamela Geller, THE PUNK IS PUNKED! CHARLES JOHNSON OF LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS SCAMMED! FALLS FOR FAUXTOGRAPHY, Atlas Shrugs, 25 April 2009.
==Affiliations==
*Pro Bürgerbewegung
*Bürgerbewegung pro Köln
==Notes==
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