Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-25-Speech-3-386"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-03-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European conscience and totalitarianism (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090325.30.3-386"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-03-25-Speech-3-3872
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Claeys2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vlaams Belang (2004-11-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; NA (2007-11-14--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, it is good that a number of initiatives have been taken to pay due remembrance to the victims of totalitarian systems. However, there is no sense in remembering the victims of defunct regimes such as those of Communism and National Socialism, of course, whilst disregarding the victims of current totalitarian threats such as that of Islamism. Condemning totalitarian Islam does not in any way imply condemnation of individual Muslims in Europe who observe the rules, values and standards of a democratic state under the rule of law, and for whom faith is a private matter. Yet we do have to have the courage to recognise that political Islam, totalitarian Islam – not only Islamic states, or some such states, but also terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda and related movements – continues to claim many victims worldwide. The appropriate course of action, therefore, is for the European Union to take a number of strong initiatives to remember those victims, too, and to ensure that the number of victims of such totalitarian Islamic organisations and countries is reduced as far as possible, preferably to zero. After all, we must have the courage to admit – and this, too, is a problem in the European Union – that criticising totalitarian Islam is not always welcome because the spirit of political correctness prevails here. What is more, totalitarian Islam was not even mentioned in the Commission and Council statements just now, when what we should in fact be doing is having the courage to contemplate that problem, too, and to take the necessary measures."@en1
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