Posted on 10/29/2005 3:32:33 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
The Prince of Wales will try to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam this week because he thinks the United States has been too intolerant of the religion since September 11.
The Prince, who leaves on Tuesday for an eight-day tour of the US, has voiced private concerns over America's "confrontational" approach to Muslim countries and its failure to appreciate Islam's strengths.
The Prince raised his concerns when he met senior Muslims in London in November 2001. The gathering took place just two months after the attacks on New York and Washington. "I find the language and rhetoric coming from America too confrontational," the Prince said, according to one leader at the meeting.
It is understood that Prince Charles did not - and does not - believe that the actions of 19 hijackers should tarnish the reputation of hundreds of millions of law-abiding Muslims around the world.
Khalid Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Bar, was also at the meeting at St James's Palace. "His criticism of America was a general one of the Americans not having the appreciation we have for Islam and its culture," he said.
Mr Mahmood and other Muslims present stressed that Prince Charles did not go so far as to criticise the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. More recently, he has been careful not to express his views on Iraq.
The Prince also spoke of his sympathy for America after the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of almost 3,000 people. He said he wanted to promote better relations between the different religions of the world.
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Oh, please. That's all we need.
He probably doesn't know what he is himself.
Slainte,
CC
I'm trying to figure out the intriguing details of how Robert Graves and Queen Elizabeth could be descended from Muhammed.
Actually, if that's true, wouldn't it make Charles some sort of high muckity muck in Islam? I think he'd get to wear the black headdress...
IMHO, Chuck can stay the he!! out of the USA. It wasn't 2,000 of his fellow citizens brutally murdered on a beautiful September morning in 2001. It wasn't his country's buildings that were destroyed by members of the ROP. It wasn't his country that was savagely attacked. So, Chuck, stay out of MY country. Keep your pompous, immoral a** home and take care of Camilla and the British Empire, if you can. We don't need you here and we don't your opinions on how WE should get along with those cold blooded murderers that are affiliated with the Religion of Peace. Appease them if you will, but leave us out of it.
Thanks Ivan, appreciate that. Please understand.... we don't take him seriously either. We're just gritting our teeth at the fact that we're going to have to read his inane words on the front page of every major American newspaper for the length of his visit.
Well, except for the pedophile part, it sounds just like Henry VIII and Anglicanism. Charles should feel right at home!
Ping!
Long live Prince William, because his daddy is a kidney pie eating appeasement monkey! Wait a minute....kidney pie is good.
He might say he is converting to Izlam...
What was that thing the French used to get rid or their royalty? The British need it badly. I can't believe they tolerate the most expensive ward of the state.
Noted.
He's a flaming moonbat. Prince William more than fits the bill for the title of King of England.
Chuckie is an embarassment, and you have my sympathy.
Most reassuring. Thank you and--LOL :^D
Hey, a "religion" founded by an egomaniacal pedophile, dedicated to removing all other religions and schools of thought by savagely killing people? What's not to like? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And....the rest of the news today.....
Christian girls beheaded in grisly Indonesian attack
October 29, 2005 - 7:01PM SMH.com
Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a fourth was seriously wounded in a savage attack on Saturday by unidentified assailants in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.
The girls were among a group of students from a private Christian high school who were ambushed while walking through a cocoa plantation in Poso Kota subdistrict on their way to class, police Major Riky Naldo said.
The area is close to the provincial capital of Poso, about 1000 kilometres northeast of Jakarta.
Naldo said the heads of the three dead victims were found several kilometres from their bodies.
I tend to agree with you that Charles is an oddity, unworthy of attention... that is, I WOULD agree with you much more, had 9-11 not happened.
But it did. And if I expanded on what I think of his comments, I would be banned from FR.
As Percy of "Blackadder" might put it, he has taken too many crumpets from behind in public school.
We left New York City for the same reasons you state. I understand. Thank you.
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