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BESCHLOSS: Hello, and welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations, ladies and gentlemen. Very pleased to be here today. It is with much excitement that I welcome Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh today.
Prime Minister Hasina has been the leader of Bangladesh for over ten years, following in the legacy of her late father, Sheikh Rahman, Bangladesh’s first president. She has steered the country through an incredible period of growth. The growth in Bangladesh has been so much higher not just compared to the G-7 countries, but to the rest of emerging markets. And in the last two years it has been in the region of 7 to 8 to 9 percent, which is one of the highest rates, really, across most economies. She has received international praise for her management of the Rohingya crisis, accepting over one million forcibly-displaced persons into Bangladesh and providing them with safe haven. She has long been a proponent of women’s and children’s rights. And as Bangladesh’s long
i yield back. joining me now, imam feisal abdul rauf. thank you very much for joining us tonight. my pleasure to be with you, lawrence. you have been famously entangled in a controversy surrounding the building of a mosque near ground zero in lower manhattan and a community center. that controversy seems to have somehow, to me, spread into the tone and the style of these hearings that peter king wants to do. they seem to be of a piece, that controversy we ve seen in lower manhattan and now this controversy we re seeing in a hearing room in washington, d.c. you re absolutely correct, lawrence. there is a very focal and very powerful and very influential anti-islam group in the united states that is seeking to identify islam as america s existential enemy. and nothing could be further from the truth and nothing could be more dangerous. we do have a common enemy, and