Gravers Pedersen has been instrumental in forming the street-based activist parts of the counter-jihad movement since he founded SIAD in 2005.[3]
In March 2012, Gravers Pedersen participated in staging a rally and arranging an anti-Islamic conference along with the English Defence League in Århus.[1] Two years earlier, in 2010, he was allegedly assaulted at a rally in Aalborg.[4] In 2008 SIAD and Gravers Pedersen in the capacity of leading SIOE were each sentenced to pay fines of DKK 10,000 for violating a court order against using Kurt Westergaard'sMuhammad cartoons at a rally.[5][6]
Contesting elections
Gravers Pedersen attempted to run for a seat in the Danish parliament, Folketinget, in 2012[7] and in 2009.[8] He contested municipal elections in Aalborg in 2005 and gained 383 votes and the group Шаблон:Interlanguage link multi received a total of 1,172 votes. This represented less than 1% of the votes cast in the election.[9] At the 2007 Danish Parliamentary Election Pedersen stood in Jutland and gained 73 votes.[10]
↑Шаблон:Cite web. Summer Editors: Radical Right hooligan mobilization without success.
↑Шаблон:Cite web. Right-wing independents defeated, It was less than 100 personal votes to two independents who are known from immigrant-hostile associations. By Elisabeth Arnsdorf Haslund.
