The King hosted Muslim and Jewish faith leaders at Buckingham Palace following their signing of Muslim-Jewish Reconciliation Accords on Tuesday. Senior Muslim and Jewish figures in the UK, including Chief Rabbi and Chief Imam, signed the landmark agreement named The Drumlanrig Accord, which establishes a constructive framework for sustained interfaith solidarity amid rising tension in the UK. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Welcome everybody to the Master Household of His Majesty's Household.
00:25Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Master Household and we cannot tell you how happy we are to have you all here.
00:34Thank you so much.
00:38I didn't wish to stay here too long.
00:40Not at all. It's so wonderful we could do this.
00:43Everyone feels that you were the vanguard.
00:47And here they are following you.
00:50May I introduce Imam Sayyid Reza Amiy, who is the President of the Green Staff of the Government of Afghanistan.
00:58Thank you very much.
01:00It's a great pleasure to see you again.
01:04Can I please have a seat?
01:08I'm so glad to hear about this wonderful exercise.
01:12It seems to us that you remember the intention to bring us all here together.
01:18Six nominations and five, isn't it?
01:23Brilliant.
01:26And Your Majesty, you know that she has brought blessings.
01:30And your impact on Krakow is still resonating very deeply.
01:34It was absolutely wonderful.
01:36Were you there?
01:37I was there.
01:40But thank you so much for blessing us on this historic day.
01:45It's the least I could do.
01:48Anyway, it was very moving that you went to Auschwitz.
01:53That's right. And your participation was so hugely appreciated.
01:58But then ending up at Dachau, that's the mystery.
02:02Yes, where you lay to rest.
02:05Next to Kharis Sheel, who is from Leeds.
02:10And he's from Suleymaniyah.
02:13So we've come together to Indonesia and other places.
02:17And I think your incredible work over the years in bringing human flourishing is really remarkable.
02:25I think in terms of your vested interest in faiths has made this possible as well.
02:33If I had done that, I'm very proud.
02:36I think you can develop it in various ways.
02:39I'll leave that from reform.
02:42I'm going to leave with these four just to tell you a little bit about it.
02:47I saw everyone at the French show.
02:50She came over and had a discussion.
02:54It was the first time that we found six different denominations for the church.
02:58We had a good conversation, which then we thought, OK, we should do something.
03:03In our mind it was something like chords.
03:05And it just so happened I spoke to Richard and he said, come to my council.
03:09So within the space of a couple of months, we had two things.
03:15We stayed in class.
03:17And I think the six of us did facilitating and then six of us, our imam, our imam here convened
03:22and made it real possible.
03:24Vested interest by someone here has made it so fruitful and engaging.
03:30Courageous.
03:32We offer applause for our Muslim colleagues together with all of our Jewish colleagues.
03:39This is not an easy thing to do in the present climate, but we're up for it.
03:43We believe it's the only way forward.
03:45And I think we're committed to making it real.
03:48That it can't just be a signing, as powerful as that was.
03:52But actually it's an easy thing to do.
03:54Talking about pursuing something is creating a framework that we can contribute towards
04:02a more peaceful society.
04:05We've got a development of a council which is coming.
04:09I wondered whether there's an example of an imam leadership program.
04:15You know there should be.
04:17Yeah, we do.
04:18That's really powerful.
04:20Because I know the Windsor leadership is incredibly good at that.
04:25Yes.
04:26Come and watch.
04:28Some of us fellow imams.
04:30I'm sure if you felt it by here.
04:34Thank you very much.
04:35What I think about this initiative is not just about faith communities, but also tackling
04:39societal inequities, poverty and other things that are affecting our communities on the ground.
04:44So faith leadership is bringing that light in.