The report ‘Weerstand en tegenkracht’ (‘Resilience and Resistance’) by the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands (AIVD) highlights the current trends and developments relating to Salafism in the Netherlands. This report is a follow-up to the AIVD publication ‘The Radical Dawa in Transition’ (‘Radicale dawa in verandering’), which was published in the autumn of 2007. It describes the nature and scale of non-violent radical Islam and the related risks it poses for the democratic legal order. At the time, the AIVD observed that a radical and intolerant Islamic ideology was being spread in the Netherlands and Europe on an ever-increasing scale and in an increasingly organised way. In the Netherlands, Salafism in particular was gaining ground. Within Salafism there is a movement that, through an activist approach, strives for strict adherence to Islamic law and regulations, which can lead to intolerance and polarisation. A growing section of the young Muslim population was proving receptive to this movement and, under its influence, increasingly rejected Western society.