this summer; in astana, the capital of kazakhstan, current chair of the organisationon the islamic conference and an economy of growing global importance. >>today we witness a seismic shift in the demographics of global economics. a resurrection not only of increased trade connection between different regions such as southeast asia, the middle east, africa and central asia, but a coming together of its peoples and with it a greater understanding of cultures and various traditions. >>reporter: aside from the usual round of discussion on the halal industry and islamic banking, there was a sense delegates wanted to tackle deeper issues in the muslim world, most notably its underperformance economically, along with unemployment and poverty, highlighted in a keynote address at theforum. >>gdp growth for muslim countries as a whole was only 2.1% in 2009 - a relatively low growth rate that is further compounded by unequal development and inequitable distribution of wealth and income within the muslim countries themselves. >>reporter: the muslim world accounts for a fifth of the world's population ye

rash ad hussein president obama's special envoy to the organization of islamic conference, the assistant professor of religion at bot ton yooufert, john esposito is university professor of religion and international affairs at georgetown university. and an associate professor 6 arabic literature and arabi studs in corn nell, ing rid matton from hartford sell enary and sherman jackson from the university of michigan. the message is that essentially, than is a message that he has delivered with regard to people all around the world. and people of all faiths and no faiths. and that is that all people they have the same fundamental aspirations in life. they are worried about their jobs. they're worried about education. they're worried about taking care of their families b their health so wn we engage muslim communities around the world or talk to muslims you shouldn't immediately jump to security issues and say oh, let's start a discussion about terrorism. the engagement that we have should be broad. engagement should be comprehensive. it should recognize that muslims historically have play

one ambassador and another for the islamic conference. [unintelligible] i assure you that despite all allegations appeared in the media and with with a crossing, no change also. that crossing had been opened by turkey about one month in june 2010. no change in that crossing. you cannot find any change in our foreign relations. but i would like to assure that our transition. i -- our transition period from the people and democracy, they had to listen to the public opinion, and you will not find one person in egypt to convince him and to take a decision you would like to take. you will find inshallah a democratic country in the international community, and we ask you to consider these changes not only in egypt but to examine all the issues, especially the palestinian issue and the syrian issue and 11 non issue. -- the 11 bond issues. israel has to comply with this. >> thank you very much for your conversation and we will turn it over to steve now. [applause] >> let me thank them for getting us off to a tremendous start. not 500 questions he

one ambassador and another for the islamic conference. [unintelligible] i assure you that despite all allegations appeared in the media and with with a crossing, no change also. that crossing had been opened by turkey about one month in june 2010. no change in that crossing. you cannot find any change in our foreign relations. but i would like to assure that our transition period from the people and democracy, they had to listen to the public opinion, and you will not find one person in egypt to convince him and to take a decision you would like to take. you will find, inshallah, a democratic country in the international community, and we ask you to consider these changes not only in egypt but to examine all the issues, especially the palestinian issue and the syrian issue and the lebanon issue. israel has to comply with this. >> thank you very much for your conversation and we will turn it over to steve now. [applause] >> let me thank you for getting us off to a tremendous start. not 500 questions here, but 37. we face a bit of a dilemma

this conference in tehran, for example, was sponsored by the islamic world peace forum.ity of tehran and other. >> bill: islamic world peace forum. >> the irony of a country that is a state that sponsors terrorism. >> somebody paid her to come in. they would have to. she is not doing this for free. >> absurd, outrageous. by the way, this is not anything new. >> bill: she has always been a radical kook. >> she suggested president bush knew about 9/11 before it happened. that the -- >> bill: she is giving aid and comfort to the worst elements in the world and it's disgraceful. we will stay on that case. now, another very controversial guy louis farrakhan being investigated by the bureau of prisons that comes under the department of justice, interestingly enough, the prisons is worried about farrakhan inciting convicts, roll the tape. >> zionist dominates the government of the united states of america and the system. >> the white right is trying to set barack up to be assassinated. >> that's why in the name jewelry is the name jew because they run the industry. >> god said

diametrically opposed to stop islamization of europe's tactics and methods and strategies because we have always been a peaceful organization we've always had demonstrations conferences and i've written articles. and such events are always authorized and okayed by the police north or it is here we are a peaceful organization and this man is in my view a one off i live in the north of england and recently we've had a guy just not make this point because. this is an exception that proves the rule really in the north of england not far from where i live we had a similar event of mass murder and nobody knows what the motivations were for the horrific attacks this man is reported to have been an anti is the most we have no record of him joining our group. was summarily thrown out of the facebook group which is the fleetest contact that he had with us. that is he was found out that he had nazi links on your nazi links he was thrown off because we're fundamentally anti totalitarian as a group we oppose not only is not our mail here for communism a nazi is ok as i didn't want to jump in there you want to reply to i got headers are yeah i mean. i think steven what what he say

conference. we're meeting there to find out how we can help muslims unite. the u.s. islamic world forum. i don't have a problem with that. unfortunately, some of the people involved seem to be extreme islamists for shariah. meanwhile, the president is telling us don't watch regular tv. al-jazeera is the one in the white house in the state department. hillary clinton says hey, we love it. it doesn't have commercials. it doesn't have commercials and it doesn't have anybody arguing on it. without commercials, wait, that sounds like this guy's plan. this plan. free press. from the fcc. free commercials. make sure we have free press. net neutrality, which leads to this guy. people say people have to step down from the jobs so you can give somebody else a chance. that is what i'm doing. that's why i'm leaving. i'm going to give somebody else a chance. so it is a nasty, nasty rat's nest. it comes down to this. redistributing the wealth for half of them. i believe half of them. i think this guy believes in redistribution of wealth. i believe this guy believes in redistribution of wealth. this gu

islam and gets paid for it. his book like "god's war on terror". "satan's footsteps" and why i left jihad. we found him speaking at the south dakota conferenceecurity. he was addressing 300 police officers and first responders. his message was american moslems need to be profiled. all islamic organizations from doctors to engineers to students ought to be investigated and mosques in the u.s. should be considered terror centers, not houses of worship. he says terrorism and islam are inseparable. >> you want them to say that islam was hijacked, it was not hijacked. islam is islam is islam. >> well, full disclosure, at one time or another cnn and other networks have turned to shabat for his perspective on the war on terror, an apparent look from the inside. but keeping them honest tonight, we're discovering has his story doesn't seem to add up. cnn's drew griffin of cnn's special investigations unit. >> i think we are at war with islamic fundamentalism and islamism which stems from islam. no historian can deny that islamists basically invaded kristendom. >> walid shabat's message is the epitome of good versus evil. he has a pedigree that makes

conference, trust no muslim, especially those who organize. >> know your enemy. know your enemy. all islamist organizations in america should be the number one enemy. all of them. islamismould be focused on. >> reporter: he is being paid $5,000 plus expenses to speak here with your tax dollars. he was also given a rapid city police guard during his time in the city, a nice day's work. judging by his website, where he highlights more than three dozen speaking engagements, shoebat gets a lot of work. but the question we ask, randi, is should anyone believe anything he says? we took our time with this investigation. we spent months trying to track down all of his so-called credit l sha ials. his being a terrorist. his being with the plo. he was very hostile when we began asking any questions. >> i'm sure anyone watching this at home is probably asking themselves, why did the south dakota homeland security or anybody else hire this guy without checking out his credentials? >> we asked that of south dakota, right? number one, there's not a lot of muslims there. there's not a lot of terrorism centered in south dakota. why is this guy speaking there to begin with? he spoke the

islamic there's a lot at stake is enormous opportunity. one of my colleague ha hs been a successful businessman in one of his previous lives. capital cfec you may want to comment -- >> the capitol conference as well.hat >> it is clear to me that if this decision were being left up to 100 from colorado, we would scratch our heads and are do things that would take about a a dayt to come to a set of u solutions that would solve the problem or a least move it down the road and we would feelad pretty patriotic about what weae had done and had done something useful for our kids and at thetn end of the process if weg arelk able to deliver something likeed that, thaayt's how we ought to feel. there's too many days around this place we feel like we've lost sight of all of that and in that conversation you're talking about, alan simpson was should big part, gary hart, a number f people, it was abundantly clear, blindingly obvious to the people in that room that you couldn't approach this problem by drawint cight lines and saying no, you can't press this or touch that.e if they knew everybody was going to have to give a little bit here in order to make this work in some of that line drawing ist the