Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-08-Speech-3-141"
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"Mr President, the Moraes report is yet another of those documents that are full of good intentions, yet invariably achieving the opposite of what they actually hope to achieve, with constant talk of racism and discrimination, although those terms are not precisely defined. It does, of course, become a problem when these terms occur in repressive legislation, which is what is being recommended here. That is how Belgium’s largest political party came to be condemned partly on the basis of a text on female circumcision. According to the judge, that text was not published to improve the situation of women in Islam, but to stigmatise Islam. In that way, freedom of opinion is crippled and problems become unmentionable, which is not, of course, the way to get them solved.
The report speaks, and I quote, in terms of ‘profoundly racist, anti-Semitic, islamophobic and homophobic statements and actions by prominent politicians and members of government’. The reality is, however, that nearly all anti-Semitic incidents can be traced back to Islamic immigrants. The reality is that so-called discrimination is often the result of a lack of willingness to integrate on the part of immigrants. The reality is that the indigenous population has never been consulted democratically about the question whether they want to live in a multi-cultural country, and that is something that must change as a matter of urgency."@en1
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