ISLAMIC EXTREMISM IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM FOR EUROPE
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.07.2007 15:24 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Europeans
to defend their values, reminding them about the necessity to adhere
to Christian principles and indicating where the security threat for
Europe and the whole world comes from.
Angela Merkel urged Europeans to strongly defend basic values from
the threat of Islamic extremism. Human’s image in his Christian
interpretation must become a universal principle, actions of which do
not end near the borders of Europe. Islamic extremism is the major
threat. As an example of enemy to democracy the German Chancellor
called Iran, underlining that Tehran’s efforts to slander Holocaust
and Ahmadinejad’s threats to wipe out Israel must meet a strong
resistance by Europeans.
Angela Merkel stated that the European Union is not only an economic
union. " We need the European Union as a commonality of values. For
me personally, tolerance is the soul of Europe. And exactly tolerance
demands defense from extremism," she said, Deutsche Welle reports.