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| To broaden the coalition and win approval, we need to understand the Muslim world better, Miliband says. |
"The decision that was taken several years ago at the King Charles felt still in sight the Middle East and South Asia," he said in a keynote speech at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (Oxcis) On Tuesday, October 29.
"The destruction of the palace of the Crusades remain as poignant monuments to the religious atrocities of the Middle Ages."
Crusade is a series of military campaigns of a religious character are being implemented by European Christians during 1095-1291.
The campaign, which most of them doubted by Pope Roman Catholic Church, has a goal to take back Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule.
"The lines were drawn on maps by colonial forces succeeded, many of which, by the failure - it must be said not just ours - to bring the two states in Palestine," Miliband said.
In 1917, the then Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour sent a letter to Baron Rothschild said that the UK government considers the goodwill establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
In 1948, Israel was created on the ruins of Palestine, forcing thousands of people out of their homes.Miliband puts Iraq in the same context as the Crusades and colonialism.
"More recently, the invasion of Iraq, and as a result, generate a sense of bitterness, distrust and resentment. Ornag When people hear about Britain, too often they think about these things," he said.These events are associated with a history of relations between Europe and the Islamic world have been categorized by conquest, conflict and colonialism. "
In 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair to part with some of its European allies in support of President George Bush's decision to invade Iraq without a UN mandate.
Coalition Agreement
Miliband underlined that the need for a new pendekatann to build a broader coalition and agreement among ordinary Muslims.
He insisted that the British should find common ground with the Muslim community and understand its complexity.
"To broaden the coalition and win approval, we need to understand the Muslim world better, or we will risk underestimating our own force of the argument, as I sometimes have to do when using the label moderate and extremist" he admits.
"We must hold fast to our values sesndiri and support those who seek to apply them, or we will be guilty of the hypocrisy and we need to share their efforts to file grievances, socio-economic and political, which are perceived to make Muslims fall, and in fact is the case. "
Miliband asked for the largest possible coalition and political movements, knowing this means prepared to encourage reconciliation with organizations with different values.
"Widest possible coalition will in time include groups whose aims we do not share, whose values we find deplorable, that we think the methods are dubious. However would be unlikely to win the approval of the people if we can not demonstrate consistency and certainty in the application of our values. "
He was asked to draw a line between all of the treatment for those who believe in political violence.
"If we respect all the political treatment, support the implementation of the democratic values of our own and help resolve grievances, including the Palestinians, we can forge a new coalition and win approval."
The top-level diplomat believes that British Muslims are nearly two million has a valuable role to play in building a new partnership.
"In the majority of British Muslim citizens, we have a huge resource, combining the values that bind Britain together as a liberal democracy, with their particular religious identity," he stressed.
"And the merger identity is a valuable lesson when we forge coalitions in the Muslim world."
Crusade began in 1095 at Clermont in southern France, which was declared by Pope Urban II, who urged all Christians to unite and fight under the symbol of the cross to save Jerusalem from the Muslims Ras Arab Criminals. He lectured that God will forgive and redeem the sins of their past if they managed to conquer the Holy Land.
When the city was conquered Maarrat Numan, 100,000 people were killed and burned the town until exhausted. On July 15, 1099, the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem and massacred 65 000 inhabitants in the al-Aqsa Mosque. Piles of heads, hands and feet can be seen on the streets and in the city field[History of the Arabs by PK Hitti]
Between the years 1095-1270, eight Crusades waged war and all ended with the victory of Muslims.In 1917, when the French army entered Damascus, they went to the tomb commander Salahuddin and kicked him and said: Nous revoila, Saladin or we have returned! Hi Saladin.[Christian and Islam by John McManners p.194]
Nearly a century after the Crusades in Jerusalem, emerging new Crusade with purpose and reason. Under the banner of the Cross are worn out their fighting and massacring Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Source: Reuters
