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Gijs de Vries
February 22, 1956 -
Nationality: Dutch
Category: Politician
Subcategory: Dutch Politician

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

   

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

   

There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

   

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

   

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

   

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

   

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

   

We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.

   

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.

   

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.

   

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

   

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

   

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

   

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