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"I know that Dr. Ramazani in Hamburg has very good relations with the university there and that he's engaged in systematic way and on a regular basis in dialogue with other people; but I think that this kind of approach needs to be increased and it should be a standard for all of these centers that we have to offer some kind of forum especially to address the youth.
We were visited a few years go by some politicians from Germany and I was very surprised because when I was discussing the issue of Islam in Europe with a representative of Die Linke party in Germany, which is a controversial party in Germany because of people in the party who were former members of the DDR’s Communist Party, this representative told me that people are upset now because, she said, "Don't you understand there are more Muslims in Berlin than Catholics!" I thought this was really interesting that a leftist should complain that there are more Muslims in Berlin than Catholics, given that the left has been a source of some of the harshest criticism of the Roman Catholic Church.
One of the things that I thought was really interesting in this letter is that he points out several shameful events in Western history: colonialism, slavery, imperialism, oppression of people of color and things like this and he says that the Western historians now who look back at those kinds of events they’re ashamed of that kind of thing.
Legenhausen: One of the things that I think also comes out if you read the letter carefully is that Aqaye Khamenei is really troubled, he’s upset by this kind of bad image that's being shown as Islam."