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first of all thank you for coming and talking to me I'm so happy to be in Turkey it's my

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favorite country and sitting here on the bank of Bosporus in this great wonderful hotel it makes me

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it gives me this feeling of at home my name is Bashar Qureshi I am originally from Pakistan but I live

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in Denmark and I work with NGOs for the last 32 years working with Islamophobia anti-semitism

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discrimination racism all those issues which ethnic minorities both religious and ethnic are facing in

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European continent Jewish people and Christian people are people of the book in Quran this they

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are called elected up we can marry with them we can have business with them we can eat with them we can

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have beautiful relationship with them and we had it for thousands hundreds of years so what you are

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telling me is against Islam it is against Islamic teaching and it's again our own history because

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if you look at the Ottoman Empire they have been in Europe half of Europe under them and they they

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showed them most of the time beautiful way of ruling the countries and then we say no no no Islam in this

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if somebody insults Quran or insults Prophet we should kill him Islam does not allow that so I think we have

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to unify the Muslim communities and present a picture which actually tallies with what Islam teaches yes

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if there is another hadith from Prophet that to attain knowledge is every Muslims duty from cradle to the grave you

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should never stop educating yourself you should never stop learning new things and Muslims should be proud

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that they have a past where they have created amazing scientific development scientific discoveries but

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again as long as the Muslims who are thinking rationally and thinking scientifically they were developing all the

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time but no sooner this stopped and and started using culture and religion the aggregation came so my

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request to the Muslim brothers and sisters is go back to the scriptures go back to the knowledge of Quran

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go back what Islam teaches you so that first you become a better in son a better human being then you become

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a better husband or a wife you can become a better neighbor you can become a better sports person in

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every which way you will develop and this should be our aim 1960s there was a very nice a socio-economical

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political cooperation between Pakistan Turkey and Iran it was called regional cooperation development

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let's start there again look can you imagine that Pakistan Iran and Turkey get together not as a

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country but as a federation or lose federation you have oil you have atomic power you have all the

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industry in in in Turkey you have men huge manpower almost you know 400 million it will be just like

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European Union and then once you have made these three different countries together and then other

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countries can join it definitely immediately if because in Pakistan comes together other countries

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will follow exactly and why I'm saying that in European Union they started with two countries they

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started with France and Germany who after second world war were tired of killing each other so say

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let's sit down and compete against each other so they made the first agreement was about iron iron and

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coal coal and look where European Union why can't we look we we do we can do much better actually

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there's an economic union exactly Muslim countries control 70% of the world energy resources they have

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1.7 billion people they have scientists Pakistan have the fifth largest reservoir of scientists and

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engineers Turkey has huge reservoir of young people so let's start there this is this is my wish and I

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hope one day and Turkey should take and take a lead in that yeah I have requested yes thank you very

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very much it was a great pleasure and honor thank you thank you very much thank you for into thank you