Dutch - Politician | February 22, 1956 -
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
Gijs de Vries
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Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
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The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.
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I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
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The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
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The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
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Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.
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Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.
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Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.
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