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By Hasan Suroor
LONDON: This summer, the Queen will be borrowing a leaf from Indian political leaders when she visits a mosque, a temple and a gurdwara in a demonstration of Britain's faith in multi-culturalism. The occasion will be her golden jubilee celebrations which will be held in June against the background of rising racial tension and intolerance. She has assigned other members of the royal family to visit places of worship of Jains, Buddhists, Baha'is and Zoarastrians in what is billed as a big gesture towards non-Christian faiths. ``The Queen is determined to show that non-Christian as well as Christian groups have a central place in society. Her efforts follow a concerted effort by the Government and church leaders to improve relations between the faiths,'' one newspaper said. But already dissenting voices have started to emerge with the more conservative church leaders warning that such an overt public association with other faiths was not compatible with her role as the supreme governor of the Church of England. One church leader has been quoted as saying that she should "not compromise her coronation oath to safeguard the Christian faith''.
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