40 Quotes by Gijs de Vries

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

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

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

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

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