[1] The group describes itself as a "human rights organisation" that stands for "freedom and democracy" against "Islamisation".

[2] René Stadtkewitz has been deputy chairman of the organisation, and its national secretary is Conny Axel Meier.

[2] In 2011, Meier held a speech at a conference in Strasbourg, France arranged by Stop Islamization of America and Stop Islamisation of Europe that also included Robert Spencer and Roberta Moore of the Jewish Division of the English Defence League.

[4] The BPE has attempted to claim to have revived the anti-Nazi White Rose resistance movement, and when Meier spoke at the 2012 international counter-jihad conference in Brussels, he compared German Muslims to members of the Nazi Party.

[6][7] On 31 May 2024, the BPE held an information stand in the Mannheim market square featuring one of its most prominent activists, Michael Stürzenberger.