UN General Assembly
2019

In more recent years, I again blame a certain group of people in the West who deliberately provoked the current phenomenon, while being aware of the impact it would have. However, the majority of Westerners did not understand. Again, that is where the Muslim leadership let Muslims down. We should have explained to them what our Prophet means to us, which I will now try to explain in the space of one minute. Our Prophet was the witness to the divine book, the holy Qur’an. The holy Qur’an is the book of guidance for Muslims and the Prophet’s life was the perfect example of the Qur’an’s guidance. He therefore represents the ideal that we all wish to attain. The Prophet created the first Islamic State in Medina, which was the basis for the Muslim civilization that would become the predominant civilization for the next 700 years.