If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
For somebody who comes from Europe, I can only say if we give up this principle of territorial integrity of countries, then we will not be able to maintain the peaceful order of Europe that we've been able to achieve.
There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else.
My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.