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2 Amendments of Daniël van der STOEP related to 2010/2311(INI)

Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas after the atrocious attacks of 11 September 2001 the first decade of the 21st century has been marked by the ‘War on Islamic Terrorism’, especially with regard to the US approach; whereas although the attacks did not take place on European soil, all Europeans felt them to be an attack on their values and their way of life in the name of the appalling ideology of Islam,
2011/05/02
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the aim of counter-terrorism policies should be to undermine the objectives of terrorism, which are to destroy the fabric ofis at present predominantly Islamic in nature, namely to destroy the ‘dar al-harb’ – literally, ‘the house of war’, i.e. all non-Islamic territory – including our free, open and democratic Western society; whereas the aim of counter-terrorism must be to protect and strengthen thate fabric of democratic society and the effectiveness of counter- terrorism policies must be measured against this aim; whereas in this logic, strengthening civil liberties and democratic scrutiny is not an obstacle to such policies, but their prime objective,
2011/05/02
Committee: LIBE