Gijs de Vries

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

— Gijs de Vries

#forces #important #internationally #locally #moderate

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. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#allies #appeal #bin #gone #great

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

— Gijs de Vries

#diverse #europe #level #low #muslim

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#moderate #muslims #our #should #strategy

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#always #surprise #terrorists

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#arguably #failed #important #most #objective

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

— Gijs de Vries

#conflict #draw #europe #fact #failed

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#authorities #central #fight #national #role

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

— Gijs de Vries

#been #border #borders #cooperate #created

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#global #had #idea #just #much