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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This sounds like the answer a beauty contestant would give to the question of "What role in the future do you see for yourself?"
In that photo he looks like an organ-grinder's monkey. Seriously!
I have me and my own to protect and I profile with prejudice.....
Frankly, I think we Americans are too tolerant of do-nothing, pompous clods like Prince Charles.
We are not under any illusions.
Just didn't want to say it in front of you....
....but you said it first.
...so we know Charles is just an anomaly....
..cause you turned out just right :^)
Ping
Maybe before Chuck comes here to America, he can stop off at New Delhi and explain to them that the six bombs that went off in their city today were just a celebration of peace. The Hindus will really respect him.
There was a plot, I understand, to restore the duke of Windsor to the throne after the occupation of the British Isles ws accomplished. That set was pertty pro-Nazi.
This is the same Prince who caused Princess Diana so much emotional pain while he dallied with his girl friends?
Since when is he qualified to make any statements about anything happening in the USofA?
If the Princess' auto 'accident' had occurred in the USofA, she'd still be alive. OUR paramedics know what to do to keep an 'accident' victim alive.
Well, MOST of us do. Teddy Kennedy wasn't driving her limo, was he?
Bloody Hell you say? The Prince of Wales? The merits of Islam? Alright, who has taken Prince Charles, and why don't they realize he's missing?
His father Prince Philip, is even weirder.
He is the co-founder along with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
He told an interviewer that he hopes to be ``reincarnated as a deadly virus'' to help solve the ``population problem.''
Prince Charles is someone we should even listen to because....?
roflmbo
Send him back to his Mommy.
What a pompous empty-headed Jackass
LOL! That was a classic.
Hmm.
Two bad things about Camilla Parker Bowles:
1. Her face 2. Her influence on Charles.
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