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"Mr President, I should like to refer to the recent crisis which has broken out over the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, to which other members have also referred.
We are currently experiencing and trying to clarify the limits of freedom of speech and cultural freedom of the free and theocratic world, often with the theory of the clash of cultures as a basis. I believe that there are not two conflicting worlds – and I am certain that most of my honourable friends believe likewise; I believe there is one open world in which we are forced to coexist.
This crisis has broken out at a time of mutual distrust between the West and Islam and, I fear – mainly as far as the war in Iraq is concerned – that the West is to blame. Unfortunately, public opinion in the West links the Muslim faith with terrorism. By contrast, public opinion in Islam considers that terrorism is an invention of the powerful on earth in order to intervene in the internal affairs of any country they wish.
Ladies and gentlemen, the world we live in does not belong to us. It is on loan to us from future generations. It is our responsibility to respect it."@en1
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