Following are excerpts from an interview with Rafat Muhammad Rashid Al-Miqati, vice president of the University of Tripoli, Lebanon, which aired on Iqra TV on May 12, 2011:

Rafat Muhammad Rashid Al-Miqati: When we realized that Islam carries compassion to the world, and that people convert to Islam more than to any other religion, and that the 9/11 attack, which took place in New York, was one big American farcical show, which mocked the Islamic world…

When we realized all that, when we read what the truthers in the West have written, when we read the book written by a French journalist, titled No Plane Crashed into the Pentagon, in which he exposes the Jews who made this long American "movie," in order to turn Iraq, Afghanistan, and the entire Islamic world into fair game...

After having read all this, we can no longer accuse the prevalent discourse in the Islamic world of being inflammatory or unobjective.

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