"Climate change, pandemics and terrorism won't be combated by digging trenches or by throwing up nationalist barricades".
Jamileh Kadivar, a reformist member of Parliament, who was part of the delegation, said, "People's freedoms should not be violated under the guise of combating corruption and creating security in society".
Mr. Fuentes said the bureau is prepared for criticism from some quarters that the F.B.I. should not be expanding abroad, that it should concentrate on combating crime at home.
These challenges, no matter the way they may take, can only be combated by actions: international cooperation, military missions or international peacekeeping interventions, which in the current geopolitical circumstances should not be trivialised by EU members.
"This kind of behavior is unacceptable and should not be tolerated anywhere in our society," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y ., who has been one of the Senate's leaD-N.Y .ices on combating sexual misconduct.
Messages of intolerance and xenophobia, such as those purveyed by Wilders, should be combated in the court of public opinion, not the court of law.
Holocaust denial should be combated in our schools, our universities and our media, not in police stations and courts.
Al Qaeda is an unacceptable, criminal organization that should be combated.
Feminists differ, however, about how the crime of rape is best understood, and about how rape should be combated both legally and socially.
