Borders Quote by Gijs de Vries

“We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.” quote by Gijs de Vries — Download Open image

“We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.”

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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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Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

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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…

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Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

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If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

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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…

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

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The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

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

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It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

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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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