Posted on 09/24/2022 4:02:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
King Charles III will surprise us. The man whose family has served as the physical symbols of colonialism has spent his life trying to free his mind from the calcified prejudices of empire. Britain’s new head of state is a loud admirer of Islam, a critic of Western interventionism and a champion of multiculturalism who will win his country new friends — and some populist enemies — across the world.
The new king has for decades sought to free himself from what he calls “Western materialism” by immersing himself in the world’s second-largest faith. As the Prince of Wales, he threw himself into the study of Islamic textiles, gardens and architecture. But he did not stop there. The king has also studied Arabic to understand the Quran.
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As bigotry and Islamophobia grew rampant after 9/11, he doubled down. “This planet’s survival will depend on you understanding that you can achieve unity through diversity,” he said in 2006 in Pakistan, going on to quote the Quran: “Only they pay attention who have hearts; only they believe (or see signs) who have hearts.”
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Charles’s admiration of Islam is visible in his personal life and work. He laid out a carpet garden at his beloved home at Highgrove that was inspired by Islamic designs with the plants mentioned in the Quran. He is patron of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and his Prince’s Foundation’s School of Traditional Arts teaches a wide range of courses on Islamic traditions. He has made visiting Muslim shrines, holy places and even the hugely important Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo part of his royal travels. The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar called him a “fair Western voice” on Islam and celebrated their meeting. Britain’s new top Royal diplomat — though he might not have said so
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She's not that far off is she? Princess Di was an adultress, shallow, converting to Islam. As far as I know Megan is converting to Islam.
The difference was they could speak English and were willing to assimilate. We have Mexican “immigrants” who have lived in Chandler, AZ, for 20 years and still only speak Spanish. The simple fact is that we cater to every other nationality now. That wasn’t the case 150 years ago, and we were never as divided as we are now.
Thanks I will do some poking around tomorrow.
About two decades ago there was a long-running thread here sustained by Freepers convinced that Charles was about to convert to Orthodoxy - a faith about which he hardly needs a crash course, since it was the faith in which his father was raised. The evidence was as thin as that presented in this thread about his interest in Islam...
...and few choose to notice his speeches repeatedly highlighting the plight of Christian minorities in the Middle East.
He also looks like an alcoholic with his very red face.
Only Jesus is King.
Someone took their brain out of neutral.
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