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"Madam President, I should like first of all to congratulate Mrs Cederschiöld on becoming the first Swedish Vice-President of the European Parliament. I want to say how delighted I am at her election.
What happened on 13 December of last year in the Indian Parliament was unprecedented. The Parliament of a democratic, pluralistic country was attacked by militant Islamicist groups. Parliament – the very heart of democracy – was exposed to a brutal assault. People were murdered. Democracy as a whole was called into question by these militant Islamicists.
It is important that we ourselves should try to understand emotionally what happened in New Delhi on that day. Imagine if our own Parliament here in Strasbourg or our national parliaments – in my case, the
in Stockholm – were to be exposed to a terrorist attack. We should react in the most vigorous way. It is perhaps difficult for us, as Europeans, properly to understand the real seriousness of what happened.
I want to address Commissioner Diamantopoulou and mention something about the Islamic religious schools, or
as they are called, in Pakistan. I believe that the Commissioner and the European Union have an incredibly important task when it comes to promoting a form of education in these schools that is based upon the ideas of love and of love of one’s neighbour and does not see other religions or other political outlooks with the eyes of hatred, for it is in these
and other Islamicist contexts that hatred is disseminated.
Dear friends, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan
fallen, but the Taliban regime’s mentality of hatred and violence, of calling other people ‘infidels’ and seeing them as inferiors, is a frame of mind that still exists. I would call upon Mrs Diamantopoulou to do everything she can to ensure that it is tolerance and the ideas of love and love of one’s neighbour that come to characterise education in Pakistan and, of course, in schools in the Middle East too.
Religion should be all about ennobling the soul, promoting lofty ethics and morality and giving people spiritual values – not about serving the causes of violence and hatred. Pakistan operated as a training ground for the Al-Qa’ida terrorists. It was one of three countries in the world that recognised the Taliban regime. Afghanistan’s Taliban ambassador to Pakistan was allowed to remain there following the attack on the United States on 11 September. Pakistan has a very great deal to put in order. What President Musharraf has said is important. We are now waiting for him to take vigorous action."@en1
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