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We Don't want to dominate Muslims says Miliband
Peter Devine25/ 9/2007
A GOVERNMENT minister has said the UK government wishes only to empower Muslims not dominate them.
David Miliband, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs was addressing delegates at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth.
He told them: "When I went to Pakistan, I met young, educated, articulate people in their twenties and thirties who told me millions of Muslims around the world think we are seeking not to empower them but to dominate them.
"So we have to stop and we have to think .To assert shared values is not enough. We must embody them in shared institutions. That's why a lasting settlement for the people of Kosovo is a defining test for the rest of Europe, and why Turkey should become a full and equal member of the EU."
However, Mr Miliband said the murderous intentions of terrorists such as Al Qaeda had to be defeated.
He explained: "Religious extremism with one brutal aim is to use murder to divide us.
"Al Qaeda are using the suffering of the Palestinians as an excuse for violence. We need to remove the excuse. We need urgent progress to address Israeli security and Palestinian rights through the only solution; a two state answer to the Middle East."
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