Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-31-Speech-3-026"
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"Mr President, given the short time that has been allocated to me, I should like to confine myself to one aspect, and that is the problem that many people in Europe have with defining the problem of terrorism. Terrorism is not simply a problem in isolation; it should, for the most part, be seen in the context of Islamic extremism. This can be seen worldwide and I need not give recent examples of it.
We need to learn to accept this and take it into account when determining counter-terrorism strategies. We should therefore put a stop, in the first instance, to growing Islamic extremism within the EU. In Belgium, for example, the state security service complains that it lacks the necessary means to monitor Muslim fundamentalism. Recently, the Belgian Government appointed eight well-known fundamentalists to the Muslim executive, of which they will make up half. Meanwhile, in some mosques, as everywhere else in Europe, jihad is being proclaimed.
Today of all days sees the presentation to this House of the report on anti-Semitism by EUMC, the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. This is the cleaned-up version, because in the original version, it was pointed out that anti-Semitism occurs mainly among Islamic immigrants and that is why we have now started censoring our own reports. As long as we remain wedged in this politically correct autism, we will be unable to develop an efficient strategy against the terrorism that is threatening us."@en1
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