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"Mr President, I would like to start by offering my condolences, on behalf of my Group, to the families and friends of those who were tragically slain in Paris. The attacks really brought home to us the danger that we face on our streets today.
If we are to deal with the greatest threat that we and our children face in this century – that of Islamic fundamentalism – we must resolve the situation in Syria. We must first realise who our enemy is, and who our enemy is not. We must not see foreign policy through the eyes of the student common room. We must realise that geopolitics is not black and white; there are very often grey areas, and we must be grown up enough to say that sometimes my enemy’s enemy is my friend, just as we did in the Second World War with Joseph Stalin.
We need to put together a grand coalition of nations including not just the Western powers but also Russia, China, India and Muslim nations as well. We must come together to cut out the cancer of radical Islamism which brought carnage onto the streets of Paris and, I believe, will attempt to repeat the same evil on the streets of another European city sometime soon. We need to admit, too, that Bashar al-Assad is not a threat to global peace by comparison with the Islamism of Islamic State. But we must also look at ourselves and ask whether our policies have aided the terrorists – and sadly, the answer is yes.
This place is in denial. You are clinging to Schengen and freedom of movement of people, just as Neville Chamberlain clung to appeasing Hitler when it was obvious to all that this man could not be dealt with. The obsession with these policies, and the failure to admit that you have been wrong, are placing the lives of our citizens in danger. I warned in this Chamber six weeks ago – to howls of derision – that freedom of movement of people in Europe would, in the end, lead to freedom of movement of jihad, and, unfortunately, I was proved correct. We must take a hard look in the mirror and ask whether our tolerance is leading to intolerance – and again, the answer must be yes.
Last week I took a walk around the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek. I was saddened by what I saw, but unfortunately I was not surprised. It is a snapshot of everything that has gone wrong with the failed policies of political correctness and aggressive multiculturalism. It is a ghetto where many home-grown jihadists live, egged on by Saudi-sponsored Wahhabism.
So, if we are to take steps to solve the crisis that we face, we must first cut out its source – which is the problems in Syria – through a global coalition. But at the same time we must take preventive action at home by reinstating border controls and clamping down on Saudi-sponsored Wahhabism, which is a growing, clear and present danger within many of our communities."@en1
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