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On Thursday 8th September, Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks spoke in a debate in the House of Lords on improving interfaith dialogue in multicultural Britain. "My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell, for initiating this important and necessary debate. I go back to words said by an expert on the subject 2600 years ago. His name was Jeremiah and he became known as a prophet of gloom. Were he to return to life today, doubtless he would be an economist. He was the first person to analyse the situation many find themselves in today of being a minority in a culture whose beliefs are not their own. Jeremiah wrote a letter to the Jewish exiles in Babylon in which he said: "Seek the welfare of the city to which you have gone and pray to God on its behalf, for in its peace and prosperity you will find peace and prosperity". He told them in effect: "Maintain your identity while contributing to the common good. Be true to your faith while being a blessing to others regardless of their faith". That is the challenge today. The good news about religion is that it creates communities based on altruism and trust. It teaches people to make sacrifices for the sake of others. It builds social capital. The bad news is that every community divides as it unites, because for every "us" there is a "them"-the people not like us. The best way to improve interfaith dialogue in multicultural Britain is to create a sense of national identity so strong that it brings different ethnic and religious ...

Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com For downloads and more information, visit: www.journeyman.tv For 60 years, in the midst of the hostile South Burmese jungle, the Karen people have fought a desperate war for survival. They are an ethnic minority in a country which does not tolerate difference; they also live amidst valuable ruby mines and teak forests. Since the Burmese capital was moved south from Rangoon, the military junta has targeted them for eradication. This is the powerful & haunting story of a secret genocide. May 2008

WHO WE ARE - Part 1 of 4 - Ashley Mote : www.ashleymote.com Journalist turned businessman turned author. Now a regular columnist, broadcaster and political campaigner. Special interest in British constitutional history. In 1972 he started his own international marketing business, helping major industrial companies to increase their export business. At one time the company had offices in Houston and Atlanta, USA, Geneva and London. The Tory government's foolhardy attempt to shadow the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) in the late 1980s and early 1990s ultimately forced interest rates to 15% and destroyed Ashley Mote's business, along with over 100000 others. Having had a bitter first-hand experience of the damage the ERM could do, when his international marketing business was destroyed by it's policies in the 1990's, Ashley started researching the European Union. This led to his book Vigilance -- A Defence of British Liberty. Vigilance is one of the fastest-selling books about the EU ever published. His second political book, OverCrowded Britain is about the UK's immigration crisis, and was published in 2003. Recently Ashley Mote has written two pamphlets, thousands of which have been circulated all over the world. J'Accuse...! was published in 2007, and We Want Our Country Back at the end of 2008. From 2004 to 2009 he sat in the EU parliament as an independent member of the European Parliament, free to fight for the early withdrawal of the UK from the European Union and the ...