I will not accept this [equating Islam with terrorism] and we in the European Parliament do not accept that Islam and terrorism are identified as the same thing. We don’t believe in this idea and we reject this idea. […] I express my opposition to this film [Geert Wilders’ Fitna] and the same thing with the Danish cartoons.
We in Europe are committed to the freedom of the press, on the one hand, but on the other the media should develop a sort of self responsibility. They should always know the consequences of what they publish about other cultures.
See also:
Meet the EU Dhimmis, 29 March 2008
Geert Wilders’s Ordeal and the Lessons of the Past, 26 March 2008
More Chickens in the Barn, 10 March 2008