Oct 12 2001 – Mrs Carly Fiorina, CEO of global IT company, Hewlett-Packard praised Muslim contributions to human endeavor during a speech given on September 26th, 2001 in Minnesota, Minneapolis. The speech, entitled, “What does our future demand of leaders today” reads in part:
There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world. It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.
One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization