"It is very easy to concentrate on the differences between the religious faiths and to forget what they have in common."
Queen Elizabeth II
(CBS/AP) British Queen Elizabeth II delivered her annual Christmas message Monday, calling for mutual respect between young and old and greater religious tolerance. "The wisdom and experience of the great religions point to the need to nurture and guide the young, and to encourage respect for the elderly," the queen said in a prerecorded message filmed at Southwark Cathedral in London.
It's tradition in Britain that Christmas dinner stops for the Queen's message, reports . In the speech broadcast to Britain and its former colonies, the queen's Christmas broadcast featured for the first time ever footage of Muslims praying in a mosque. Britain's 1.
5 million Muslims have been at the center of a number of controversies over the past year, from the continued focus on the threat of Islamist terrorism to a particularly heated debate on the full veil worn by some women.
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