Hmmm, interesting, thanks.
Anyway, I still think it's a good thing that we in the West are starting to recognize what's happening.
:-)
Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam?
Mar. 21, 2006 update: Charles weighed in on the Muhammad cartoon controversy, telling an audience of more than 800 Islamic scholars at Cairo's Al-Azhar University in what the Times (London) called a "serious, impassioned 30-minute speech that "The recent ghastly strife and anger over the Danish cartoons shows the danger that comes of our failure [as muslims?] to listen and to respect what is precious and sacred to others. In my view, the true mark of a civilised society is the respect it pays to minorities and to strangers [below islam?]." Mar. 25, 2006 update: As the first Westerner ever to address the Al Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Charles (as was the case in December 2004 see the update above) chose to give Muslims some advice about modernizing their religion. Note the "we" in the following quote:
"I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages." He also said Jews and Christians should learn from Islamic teachings: