‘King’ Charles Converted to Islam When He Was ‘Prince’ Charles? Is This CORRECT? 11 March 2025: A Closer Look:

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Claim originated in a book

The origin of this claim originated in a non-fiction book by British writer and journalist, Giles Milton.

In page 78 of his book, The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville (US | UK | AU), he recounted how the Mufti of Cyprus told him that (then) Prince Charles converted to Islam in Turkey:

Did you know that Prince Charles has converted to Islam. Yes, yes. He is a Muslim. I can’t say any more. But it happened in Turkey. Oh, yes, he converted all right. When you get home, check on how often he travels to Turkey. You’ll find that your future king is a Muslim.

Milton asked him more questions about Prince Charles converting to Islam, but the Mufti refused to answer, only saying that many Christians become Muslims, and that what happened wasn’t at all unusual.

Buckingham Palace refuted the claim

CHARLES’S PUBLIC STATEMENTS ABOUT ISLAM

The future Charles III has made several strong public statements endorsing Islam as the solution to the spiritual and cultural ills of Britain and the West. His public advocacy of Islam appears to go back to 1989, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued an edict (fatwa) against Salman Rushdie, a British citizen, for blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad in his novel The Satanic Verses.⁶ Rather than defend Rushdie’s freedom of speech, Charles reacted to the death decree by reflecting on the positive features that Islam has to offer the spiritually empty lives of his countrymen.

Charles first delivered a major address on Islam on October 27, 1993, at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford where he is a vice patron of the Centre for Islamic Studies.⁷ He declared that the usual attitude to Islam

suffers because the way we understand it has been hijacked by the extreme and the superficial. To many of us in the West, Islam is seen in terms of the tragic civil war in Lebanon, the killings and bombings perpetrated by extremist groups in the Middle East, and by what is commonly referred to as “Islamic fundamentalism.”

The Prince of Wales then explained the causes for this distorted understanding:

Our judgement of Islam has been grossly distorted by taking the extremes to the norm. . . . For example, people in this country frequently argue that the Sharia law of the Islamic world is cruel, barbaric and unjust. Our newspapers, above all, love to peddle those unthinking prejudices. The truth is, of course, different and always more complex. My own understanding is that extremes, like the cutting off of hands, are rarely practised. The guiding principle and spirit of Islamic law, taken straight from the Qur’an, should be those of equity and compassion.

Charles suggests that European women may even find something to envy in the situation of their Muslim sisters:

Islamic countries like Turkey, Egypt and Syria gave women the vote as early as Europe did its women-and much earlier than in Switzerland! In those countries women have long enjoyed equal pay, and the opportunity to play a full working role in their societies.

Charles considers Christianity inadequate to the task of spiritual restoration and denigrates science for having caused the West to lose its spiritual moorings. Echoing a common Muslim theme, he declares that “Western civilisation has become increasingly acquisitive and exploitive in defiance of our environmental responsibilities.” Instead, he praises the “Islamic revival” of the 1980s and portrays Islam as Britain’s salvation:

Islam can teach us today a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is poorer for having lost. At the heart of Islam is its preservation of an integral view of the Universe. Islam-like Buddhism and Hinduism-refuses to separate man and nature, religion and science, mind and matter, and has preserved a metaphysical and unified view of ourselves and the world around us. . . . But the West gradually lost this integrated vision of the world with Copernicus and Descartes and the coming of the scientific revolution. A comprehensive philosophy of nature is no longer part of our everyday beliefs.

He concludes by suggesting that “there are things for us to learn in this system of belief which I suggest we ignore at our peril.”

Among the many titles borne by the British sovereign is “Defender of the Faith,” a reference to the fact that the monarch heads not only the government but also the Church of England. But the prince has reservations about this title. In a June 1994 television documentary he declared his preference to be known as “Defender of Faith” rather than “Defender of the Faith,”⁸ leading to a rash of speculation that he favors the disestablishment of the Church of England.⁹

Charles has continued to discuss the role of Islam in the United Kingdom. In a speech at the Foreign Office Conference Centre at Wilton Park in Sussex on December 13, 1996, he called on Islamic pedagogy and philosophy to help young Britons develop a healthier view of the world.¹⁰ Praising Islamic culture in its traditional form for trying to preserve an “integrated, spiritual view of the world in a way we have not seen fit to do in recent generations in the West,” he went on to say:

There is much we can learn from that Islamic world view in this respect. There are many ways in which mutual understanding and appreciation can be built. Perhaps, for instance, we could begin by having more Muslim teachers in British schools, or by encouraging exchanges of teachers. Everywhere in the world people want to learn English. But in the West, in turn, we need to be taught by Islamic teachers how to learn with our hearts, as well as our heads.

The results of this study will help Westerners

to rethink, and for the better, our practical stewardship of man and his environment-in fields such as health-care, the natural environment and agriculture, as well as in architecture and urban planning.

In addition to these comments on Islam, Charles has taken steps to give that religion a special status. For example, he set up a panel of twelve “wise men” (in fact, eleven men and one woman) to advise him on Islamic religion and culture.¹¹ This caused much talk, especially as the group was reported to have met in secret. Some noted that no comparable body exists to inform the crown prince about other faiths practiced in his future realm.

REACTIONS

Muslim world. Charles has traveled extensively in the Muslim world, with recent visits to Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Bangladesh. He has visited Turkey so often that some observers believe that to be the country where his rumored conversion to Islam took place. In addition, he has visited mosques in the United Kingdom, for example, dropping in on one at the end of Ramadan in April 1996.

Some offices of the British government have found a practical use for the prince’s affection for Islam. In particular, the Foreign Office uses him as a point man for British business interests in Muslim countries, leading one journalist to comment that “the Charles of Arabia phenomenon is here to stay,” for it helps assure British commerce with the Muslim world.¹²

Although some Britons may be bewildered at Prince Charles’s infatuation with Islam, he has become a hero among Muslims. His February 1997 visit to Saudi Arabia

got moderate coverage in the British press-but it was huge news in the host country. In Saudi Arabia, the overwhelming theme of the welcoming addresses was of the Prince as candid friend of the Islamic world. The warmth of his welcome was extraordinary.

The writer of this account, John Casey of Cambridge University, warns that the British public lacks a clear understanding of Charles’s standing in the Muslim world:

The extent to which the Prince is admired by Muslims-even to the point of hero-worship-has not yet sunk into the consciousness of the British public. When it does, that public may or may not be pleased.

Casey concludes that the prince of Wales’s “hero status” in the Arab world is permanent. “No other Western figure commands this sort of admiration.”¹³

Charles’s Muslim admirers can be generous in their gratitude. At a private dinner with prince Charles in May 1997, Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia announced a donation by King Fahd of $33 million to Oxford University to construct a new Centre for Islamic Studies at Oxford, a gift designed “to establish Islamic studies at the heart of the British education system.”¹⁴

Great Britain. Charles’s speeches provoked a flurry of comments in England. In the popular perception, he is a spiritual dilettante, something of a religious butterfly, flitting from faith to faith and veering, increasingly, towards Islam. . . . The sight of the Prince in yet another prayer shawl only compounds the image of a well-intentioned eccentric seeking divine inspiration.¹⁵

Others wonder if Charles is aware of the punishments Islamic law metes out to adulterers-and whether he “exacted some sort of guarantee” before traveling to the Muslim world that he would not be “stoned or beaten by devout Saudi or Bangladeshi natives.”¹⁶

Some Englishmen took their prince’s statements more seriously. Patrick Sookhdeo, director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, raised questions about the coherence of Charles’s approach to Islam, commenting that “It is not fair to compare the best ideals of the Islamic faith with the worst of Western cultural decadence.” Sookhdeo also reminded Charles that many Muslims see in Western traditions the solution to their own problems:

What do Muslims living in a Muslim context feel? Are they content to continue submitting to authority in every detail of their lives? Many are not. We hear much about radical Islamists seeking an even closer adherence to the original teachings of Islam. But we hear little about the opposite phenomenon: the Muslims who are attracted by democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, respect for the rights and worth of the individual and other characteristics of Western society.¹⁷

Another commentator reversed Charles’s argument and held that some of Britain’s million and a half Muslims need instruction in British values:

it would be interesting to know who they [the Muslim leaders with whom Charles associates] are. Do they include Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammad, who supports Hamas, agitates for an Islamic state, and recently called for homosexuals to fling themselves off Big Ben? Or the dissident Dr. al-Mas’ari, who has used the new freedom of speech which we in this country have given him to call for the extermination of the Jews?¹⁸

Prime Minister John Major reacted to Charles’s sentiment about wanting to be known as “Defender of Faith” with the understated comment that “it would be a little odd if Prince Charles was defender of faiths of which he was not a member.”¹⁹

The conflict between Charles’s enthusiasm for Islam and his subjects’ leeriness played itself out recently at Oxford, where the reaction to King Fahd’s huge gift to the Islamic center met with little enthusiasm. Oxford faculty oppose the gift, claiming its proposed location-on a greenfield site near the heart of the city-would constitute “overdevelopment.”²⁰ Presumably their ecological opposition hides other motives as well.

Interestingly, Charles himself has mildly experienced the wrath of fundamentalist Islam. Just after Ayatollah Khomeini issued his death decree against Salman Rushdie, Charles was in the Persian Gulf and Tehran radio denounced his presence there “as a snub to Islam.”²¹ Because of “heightened security concerns in the wake of Muslim furor over The Satanic Verses,”²² the prince was forced to withdraw from a polo match in Dubai. But this brush with Muslim extremists has not dissuaded Charles from reassuring others that Islam’s problem is only one of image.

It bears noting that Charles is not the royal family’s only link to the Muslim world, for Princess Diana, Charles’s ex-wife, has often been linked to Hasnat Khan, a London-based cardiac surgeon. Just as Charles donned a Muslim prayer shawl, Di wore a traditional shalwar kameez during her visit to Khan’s family in Pakistan. London’s Sunday Mirror²³ reports that Khan’s family has approved a possible marriage of the divorced 35-year-old princess and their son, then quoted the princess (via a “friend”) to the effect that she hoped Khan would father a half-sister to her two sons, princes William and Harry. While Diana’s divorce from the heir to the British throne removes her personally from the royal family, her sons could be the first heirs to the British throne with a Muslim stepfather.

CONCLUSION

The denigration of the West at the expense of a foreign tradition that Charles engages in occurs quite commonly among the West’s intellectual elite. For some it is Islam, for others Tibetan Buddhism, Maoist thought, or American Indian spirituality. In all cases, the alien is assumed superior to the familiar. Arthur Schlesinger replies to this that there remains

a crucial difference between the Western tradition and the others. The crimes of the West have produced their own antidotes. They have provoked great movements to end slavery, to raise the status of women, to abolish torture, to combat racism, to defend freedom of inquiry and expression, to advance personal liberty and human rights.²⁴

Should Charles persist in his admiration of Islam and defamation of his own culture, it could be, as The Independent puts it, that his accession to the throne will indeed usher in a “different kind of monarchy.”

Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman are associate scholars of the Middle East Forum.¹ New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1991, pp. 31-2.
²Evening Standard, Oct. 15, 1996.
³ Quoted in Giles Milton, The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville (London: Allison & Busby, 1996), p. 78.
⁴Evening Standard, Oct. 15, 1996.
⁵ Richard Kay and Nick Craven, “Why Charles Is Driven to Build a Bridge to the East,” Daily Mail, Jan. 6, 1997.
⁶ Ibid.
⁷“Islam and the West,” text of Charles’s 1993 speech, MSANEWS of Ohio State University.
⁸The Independent, July 1, 1994.
⁹ For example, Sunday Times, May 26, 1996.
¹⁰The Times, Dec. 14, 1996.
¹¹ Richard Kay, “Charles and the ‘Wise Men’ of Islam,” Daily Mail, Jan. 6, 1997.
¹² John Casey, “Friend of Islam Given a Hero’s Welcome,” The Daily Telegraph, Mar. 8, 1997.
¹³ Ibid.
¹⁴ Richard Wollffe and Simon Targett, “$33m gift toOxford Islamic centre.” Financial Times, May 30, 1997.
¹⁵ Robert Hardman, “Search for the Spiritual Helps to Restore Faith,” The Daily Telegraph, Dec. 28, 1996.
¹⁶ Catherine Bennett, “What on Earth is Prince Charles up To?” The Guardian, Dec. 18, 1996.
¹⁷ Patrick Sookhdeo, “Prince Charles is Wrong: Islam Does Menace the West,” The Daily Telegraph, Dec. 19, 1996.
¹⁸ Bennett, “What on Earth?” The Guardian, Dec. 18, 1996.
¹⁹Sunday Times, May 26, 1996.
²⁰ Wollffe and Targett, “$33m gift to Oxford Islamic centre.”
²¹ Reuters, Mar. 17, 1989.
²² United Press International, Mar. 17, 1989.
²³ As quoted in The Boston Herald, Nov. 4, 1996.
²⁴ Arthur M. Schelsinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society. New York: W. W. Norton, p. 127.
²⁵ July 1, 1994.

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For updates on this story, see Daniel Pipes’s blog, “Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam?”

Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam?by Daniel Pipes Jan 24, 2003 updated Sep 13, 2022Translations of this item:IndonesianIn a 1997 Middle East Quarterly article titled “Prince Charles of Arabia,” Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman looked at evidence that Britain’s crown prince might be a secret convert to Islam. They shifted through his public statements (defending Islamic law, praising the status of Muslim women, seeing in Islam a solution for Britain’s ailments) and actions (setting up a panel of twelve “wise men” to advise him on Islamic religion and culture), then concluded that, “should Charles persist in his admiration of Islam and defamation of his own culture,” his accession to the throne will indeed usher in a “different kind of monarchy.”Prince Charles, a would-be Muslim?Charles continues this pattern of admiration and defamation, keeping alive the question of his stealth conversion to Islam. This weblog entry continues to document the topic.Prince Charles today visited the Islamic Foundation, an Islamist institution, at its offices in Markfield, England (pictures here). He praised it as “a pioneering institution in many ways and is well known for its scholarly work, its publications and its research.”The Islamic Foundation is the leading UK publisher of books and writings by Islamist ideologues such as Abul A’la al-Maududi , the founder of the violent South Asian Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami. Indeed, long staffed by officials from the movement’s Pakistani and Bangladeshi branches, it serves as a leading think tank for Jamaat-e-Islami in the West. It has. One key trustee of the Islamic Foundation, Khurshid Ahmad, also served as vice-president of the Pakistani Jamaat-e-Islami. He has described the Taliban as “refulgent and splendid,” and has warned of the “implication of Europe’s being in the clasp of Jews.”While visiting the Islamic Foundation in 2003, the Prince met with leading Islamists such as Manazir Ahsan and Hashir Faruqi, globally-known Jamaat-e-Islami leaders who coordinated the riots against Salman Rushdie and backed the Iranian regime’s call for the author’s murder.Prince Charles (L) with Manazir Ahsan and Hashir Faruqi.The Prince was also photographed talking with Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin. In November 2013, a Bangladeshi War Crimes Tribunal sentenced Mueen-Uddin to death in absentia for his role in the abduction and murder of 18 journalists and intellectuals during the 1971 Liberation War. Mueen-Uddin was reportedly in charge of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Al-Badr killing squad. (January 24, 2003) (I thank Sam Westrop for this information.)Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin (L) with Prince Charles (C).Nov. 9, 2003 update: A report, “Charles Breaks Fast with the Faithful in Muscat,” in the Dubai-based Gulf News, details some of Charles’ activities during his current five-day visit to Oman::He toured the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque for almost two hours and “took keen interest in studying various sections at the mosque, including the main prayer hall.” As his spokesman put it, “The Prince was particularly keen to come to the mosque today to see the fantastic building and remarkable architecture which Prince was fascinated with. The Prince has a great love for Islamic architecture and I can’t think of finer example than this mosque.”He “spent a considerable time at an exhibition of Islamic calligraphy and held meetings with Sheikha Aisha Al Siaby, Head of Public Authority for Craft Industries and Taha Al Kisri, the Head of Omani Society for Fine Arts to discuss various aspects of Islamic art.”He “broke fast with a large congregation of people from different nationalities as he sat with folded legs on the floor in the open. He ate date and drank juice at the call of Iftar.”Charles with worry beads, Camilla with shawl.None of this, of course, is evidence that the Heir to the British Throne has changed religions, but his actions most certainly would be consistent with such a move, and especially the implication that he had kept the Ramadan fast.June 21, 2004 update: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei will award Prince Charles a $50,000 prize chosen by an international jury set up by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for his contribution to understanding Islam in the West during a London ceremony on June 24. He is the first non-Muslim to receive the prize established in 1992. Other winners have included Youssef Al-Qaradawi, Abdul Fattah Abu Ghudda, and Adnan Mohd Zarzar.Dec. 18, 2004 update: Prince Charles put himself in the middle of an Islamic theological issue that again could suggest his conversion to Islam – for if that is not the case, then on what basis does he opine on the Islamic law requiring that apostates from Islam be executed? Jonathan Petre of London’s Daily Telegraph reports on a private summit of Christian and Muslim leaders at Clarence House on this topic sponsored earlier in December by the prince. Apparently, however, he did not get the results he hoped for, with one Christian participant indicating that Charles was “very, very unhappy” about its outcome. That may have been because the Muslims at the meeting resented his public involvement in this topic.July 14, 2005 update: And what does the good prince have to say about the murder by Islamists of 55 in London a week ago? He put fingers to keyboard and produced “True Muslims Must Root Out The Extremists” for the Mirror:some deeply evil influence has been brought to bear on these impressionable young minds. … Some may think this cause is Islam. It is anything but. It is a perversion of traditional Islam. As I understand it, Islam preaches humanity, tolerance and a sense of community. … these acts have nothing to do with any true faith. … it is vital that everyone resists the temptation to condemn the Muslim community for the actions of such a tiny and evil minority. If we succumb to that temptation, the bombers will have achieved their aim. Likewise, in my view, it is the duty of every true Muslim to condemn these atrocities and root out those among them who preach and practise such hatred and bitterness.Comment: This sounds to me like the same apologetics churned out by the Muslim Council of Britain and other Islamist bodies.Aug. 2, 2005 update: At the funeral of King Fahd in Riyadh, the Associated Press reports, “Non-Muslims were not allowed at the ceremonies.” So far as I can tell, Charles did not attend the ceremonies. (There surely would have been a press uproar if he had.) We can conclude that whatever his inner faith, he is not presenting himself as a Muslim in public. In brief, he is not a Muslim at this time.Sep. 4, 2005 update: Prince Charles revealed in a letter leaked to the Daily Telegraph that he had strained relations with George Carey, then archbishop of Canterbury, over his attitude toward Islam. Particularly contentious was his expressed intent, on becoming king and supreme governor of the Church of England, to ditch the centuries’ old defender of the faith title and replace it with defender of faith and defender of the Divine. The letter reveals the archbishop’s reaction.I wish you’d been there for the archbishop! Didn’t really appreciate what I was getting at by talking about “the Divine” and felt that I had said far more about Islam than I did about Christianity – and was therefore worried about my development as a Christian.According to royal aides, Charles did not much respect Lord Carey’s views and the feelings were reciprocated.Oct. 29, 2005 update: “Prince Charles to plead Islam’s cause to Bush” reads the Sunday Telegraph headline. The text by Andrew Alderson tells how the prince of Waleswill 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.Apparently, he “wants Americans – including Mr Bush – to share his fondness for Islam.”Nov. 2, 2005 update: That Daily Telegraph article cited in the previous update made the rounds, perhaps even to the White House. In any case, George W. Bush had a little zinger ready for the good prince in his welcome for him and Camilla at the state dinner:In the first part of the 20th century, our nations stood together to ensure that fascism did not prevail in Europe. In the second half of the 20th century, we worked tirelessly to defeat the totalitarian ideology of communism. And today we’re fighting side by side against an ideology of hatred and intolerance to ensure that the 21st century will be one of liberty and hope.Charles did not reply to this comment, limiting his response to projects for the underprivileged and fond memories of Winston Churchill.“The prince comes calling” (drawing by Roman Gann, National Review, Nov. 21, 2005).Nov. 3, 2005 update: Ali Sina proposes a reason for Charles’ attraction to Islam, suggesting that he may be tired of democracy: “Does he secretly envy the Islamic system of government where the rulers have absolute power and can even impose morality on their subjects?”Nov. 5, 2005 update: Sharp-tongued Julie Burchill asks in “What’s not to like about Islam if you’re the Prince of Wales,”I wonder why Prince Charles seeks to big up powerful, theocratic Islam — which already controls so much land and wealth and yet will kill and kill to gain more — and not vulnerable, pluralistic Israel? Why doesn’t he invest as much energy in defence of the persecuted and murdered Christians who suffer for their beliefs under Islamic regimes?She then answers her own questions, much as Ali Sina does:Well, I think I know why; because cleaving to Islam is the one way that men who wish to appear liberal and enlightened can promote reactionary ideas. Monarch-worshipping, woman-oppressing, non-democratic — what’s there not for Charles to like!Nov. 13, 2005 update: Charles’ efforts to promote Islam does his mother no good in Al-Qaeda’s eyes. In a just-reviewed videotape, the organization’s number two, Ayman al- Zawahiri, calls Queen Elizabeth II “one of the severest enemies of Islam” and blames her for what he calls Britain’s “crusader laws.” In addition, he criticizes British Muslims who “work for the pleasure of Elizabeth, the head of the Church of England” and ridicules them for saying (his words, not theirs): “We are British citizens, subject to Britain’s crusader laws, and we are proud of our submission . . . to Elizabeth, head of the Church of England.”Jan. 19, 2006 update: As patron of the Festival of Muslim Cultures, which its website describes as a national celebration of “the rich cultural and artistic expressions of the Muslim peoples,” Charles will be visiting Sheffield soon. He will tour an exhibition there, “Palace and Mosque: Islamic Treasures of the Middle East,” that launches the festival. The prince is said to be keen to see the exhibition. He will also meet school and community groups and watch a performance by a group of Muslim women and girls.Jan. 26, 2006 update: The Prince of Wales expressed his pleasure today at the progress in the UK of Shar’i banking products at a conference in London to mark the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Development Bank: “I am certain that with the support of the Islamic Development Bank my charities will be able to increase their efforts to address the challenges we face in Britain’s cities and help those younger British Muslims who feel they have little or no stake in society to play a fuller part in the country’s affairs by promoting community and entrepreneurial development.”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 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.”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:What is so distinctive of the great ages of faith surely was that they understood, as well as sacred texts … the meaning of God’s word for all time and its meaning for this time. … it was Islam’s greatness to understand this in its full depth and challenge. This is what you … can give not only to Islam but by example to all the other children of Abraham.Prince Charles meets the children at Yusuf Islam’s Islamia Primary School, London.Speaking of Islamic education, here is a remedial news item: back in March 2000, Prince Charles visited the Islamia Primary School in North-West London. This, Britain’s first state-funded Muslim school, was founded and is headed by Yusuf Islam (a.k.a. Cat Stevens), an Islamist who threatened Salman Rushdie’s life during the Satanic Verses controversy and has since been banned from entering the United States. The Prince told the children: “You are ambassadors for a sometimes much misunderstood faith. I believe that Islam has much to teach increasingly secular societies like ours in Britain.”Oct. 31, 2006 update: There’s been a strong reaction to a Kuwait News Agency report that “Prince Charles Tuesday said that the world problems could be resolve by following Islamic teachings, as Islam is a religion of peace and brotherhood.” But a look at the speech in question, to the Fatima Jinnah Women University in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, finds no such statement. All Charles did was to quote the Koran in a favorable way in the context of a new-agey-style discussion of the Planet Earth:This planet’s survival will depend on you understanding that you can achieve unity through diversity; that you can in fact build on living, timeless traditions that are a part of your unique culture and still be “modern”. It will also depend on you realizing that the planetary crisis we face is so profound in its rapidly developing consequences that we simply cannot afford to go on squabbling amongst ourselves while we destroy the world around us at a truly terrifying rate. As it says in the Qu’ran – “Only they pay attention who have hearts; only they believe (or see signs) who have hearts.” Have you seen the signs? Will you trust in what your hearts are telling you?Nov. 6, 2006 update: Umree Khan reports in the Guardian, “Why Muslims love the royals,” on the Muslim response to Charles and his family:In the wake of Prince Charles’s visit to Pakistan, now is an apt time to reflect on the strange hold that royals, and he in particular, have over Muslims.It may sound paradoxical, but it’s not surprising that when Labour ministers queue up to tell modest women to take their veils off, there is a special affection for a prince whose public utterances on the subject have been marked by a sort of bumbling Islamophilia.Charles and Camilla’s visit to Pakistan was a really important trip for my mum. She is obsessed with the royal family. Lots of mums are but, really, you have no idea how big the royals are with Bangladeshi women. My friend Koruna will tell me, “You think your mum is obsessed, but I bet she doesn’t have a showcase filled with royal-family china like my aunts.” Of course she does – we had entire commemorative sets of Diana and Charles plates, eggcups, the works, in our living room. “Yeah,” Koruna replies, “but a whole showcase in a mud-shack village in Bangladesh?”Thousands of households in the subcontinent give pride of place to royal kitsch, and that is as much the case in the volatile Islamic states of Pakistan and Bangladesh as it is in India. A survey of my Asian mates confirms this grim predicament – the royal cult, and in particular the icon that is Diana, is being propped up by Muslim women all over the world.Kenny Gamble, Bennett and Vivian Levin, and Prince Charles chat about urban renewal.May 13, 2007 update: The American Trains Magazine carries an article in today’s issue, “Truly special guests ride the rails,” about Charles and Camilla training from Philadelphia to New York City on the special cars belonging to Bennett Levin. On board, the article informs us, “Charles hosted a roundtable discussion with six Philadelphia experts on the subject of urban renewal.” And who should one of those “experts” be but the notorious Kenny Gamble (aka Luqman Abdul-Haqq), seen prominently talking to the prince?May 26, 2007 update: The BBC has announced a forthcoming world premier performance. Sir John Tavener’s major new work, The Beautiful Names will be introduced on June 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Westminster Cathedral. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiří Bĕlohlávek will join forces with the BBC Symphony Chorus and Westminster Cathedral Choir.The Beautiful Names sets the 99 names for Allah as culled from the Qu’ran, sung in Arabic. “Inspiration for the piece came to me as a vision,” says Tavener, “and the music just came to me immediately I saw the Arabic word.” He has worked closely with the Arabist Michael Macdonald to ensure correct pronunciation and stress – “the sound actually does help create the music.” The 70-minute work is divided into eleven groups of nine “tonal zones” and the start of each new section is prefaced by a magisterial calling out of Allah. Making his strongest reference yet to Islam, Tavener also calls upon Sufism, Hinduism and Buddhism in his choice of structure, instrumentation and tonality.Program notes by Tavener spell this vision out in greater detail. Tickets are on sale for £24, £20, £16, £12, £8. Oh, and the work was commissioned by HRH The Prince Of Wales.”July 11, 2007 update: From a speech at the opening of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture‘s “Spirit & Life” Exhibition at the Ismaili Centre in London:So much attention is paid to the outward differences between Faiths. Almost reflexively, this becomes translated into seemingly impenetrable divisions between people; people who – if they did but know it – are in fact linked by much and separated by rather little. How refreshing it is, then, to be reminded by this marvellous exhibition of the spirituality from which our Faiths draw their real strength, and of the heritage and traditions which we share.The prince and Camilla watch the Whirling Dervishes.Nov. 27, 2007 update: Two points of note in a Times (London) article by Alan Hamilton, “Whirling dervishes’ star turn caps Prince’s homage to Islamic mystic.”Writing from Konya, Turkey, about Prince Charles’ visit there to the shrine of Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi during the 800th year of Rumi’s birth, Hamilton mentions as an aside that “The Prince disclosed yesterday that he had paid a private visit in 1992 to the shrine.”After watching ten whirling dervishes perform at a cultural center, Charles stated in a speech: “Whatever it is, it seems to me that Western life has become deconstructed and partial.” The East, on the other hand, he went on, had given us “parables of the soul.” He also cited the Koran and Hadith.Dec. 16, 2007 update: Princess Diana was also close to conversion to Islam. Of course, there was Dodi Fayad, about whom great debate exists. But before him, she was involved for two years with Dr. Hasnat Khan, in what appears to have been a more substantial and serious relationship. Here is how Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman characterized it in 1997 in their article, “Prince Charles of Arabia”:It bears noting that Charles is not the royal family’s only link to the Muslim world, for Princess Diana, Charles’s ex-wife, has often been linked to Hasnat Khan, a London-based cardiac surgeon. Just as Charles donned a Muslim prayer shawl, Di wore a traditional shalwar kameez during her visit to Khan’s family in Pakistan. London’s Sunday Mirror reports that Khan’s family has approved a possible marriage of the divorced 35-year-old princess and their son, then quoted the princess (via a “friend”) to the effect that she hoped Khan would father a half-sister to her two sons, princes William and Harry. While Diana’s divorce from the heir to the British throne removes her personally from the royal family, her sons could be the first heirs to the British throne with a Muslim stepfather.More details have just emerged about her possible conversion to Islam, via an interview with Khan’s father, Abdul Rasheed Khan. Some excerpts from an article in the Sunday Telegraph by Massoud Ansari and Andrew Alderson:Dr Hasnat Khan, a Muslim, ended his relationship with the Princess only months before her death after concluding that a marriage between them would be doomed to failure. Dr Khan told his family: “If I married her, our marriage would not last for more than a year. We are culturally so different from each other. She is from Venus and I am from Mars. If it ever happened, it would be like a marriage from two different planets.” … Mr Khan said his son had explained to him that Diana was “independent” and “outgoing”. But, added to their different faiths, it meant that his son – despite considering asking her to marry him – could not envisage their relationship lasting.The inquest into the Princess’s death heard evidence last week from one of her closest friends, Rosa Monckton, that Diana had no plans to marry her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, who died with her in a Paris car crash 10 years ago, and that she was still infatuated with Dr Khan. Ms Monckton said the Princess had been “deeply upset and hurt” when Dr Khan broke off their relationship in the summer of 1997. “She was very much in love with him. She hoped that they would be able to have a future together. She wanted to marry him,” she told the hearing. … It is understood that at one point the Princess was willing to convert to Islam in order to marry him but abandoned the idea when he took the decision that their relationship could not work in the long term.According to Monckton, she and Dianaheld long discussions about the Princess’s love life during a holiday they shared in the Greek Islands two weeks before Diana died. The Princess spent far more time talking about Hasnat Khan than she did about Dodi, the inquest heard. Ms Monckton said: “It was clear to me she was really missing Hasnat and I think Dodi was a distraction from the hurt she felt from the break-up.”Comment: It seems that William and Harry were quite close to becoming “the first heirs to the British throne with a Muslim stepfather.” Jan. 20, 2022 update: Princess Diana once sought advice from one of her regular photographers, Anwar Hussein, he told People magazine, approaching him on a flight in the mid-1990s, he recounts:All the lights were dimmed on the flight, and she came and whispered, “Can I have a chat?” She knew that I was married to an English girl, Caroline. She wanted to know about Islam. She was asking about being married when one person is Muslim and another is Protestant. She was interested because of what she was going through with Dr. Hasnat Khan. She didn’t mention him, but she assumed I knew it. I think she was wondering how the family would react to him and things like that.Jan. 14, 2008 update: Lots of news from the inquest into Princess Diana’s death where Paul Burrell, Diana’s butler, is in the witness box.First, Diana’s mother, Frances Shand Kydd, had harsh words for her daughter’s relationships with Muslim men, and Diana in turn intended to break with her over this, a British court was informed. Burrell reported on a conversation between the two six months before Diana’s death. Kydd “called the Princess a whore. She said she was messing around with effing Muslim men and she was disgraceful and she said other nasty things.” Diana responded by vowing never to speak to her mother again.Second, Burrell told about Diana’s plans to marry Hasnat Khan.Mr Burrell said he was asked to look into arranging a private marriage between Diana and Mr Khan and went as far as consulting a Catholic priest about the possibility He had also begun preparing rooms at Diana’s Kensington Palace home for Mr Khan. The couple split up a few weeks before her relationship with Dodi Fayed began. But Mr Burrell told the inquest he believed Diana still “held a candle” for Mr Khan and her new relationship was a way of making him jealous.In contrast, he did not have “the impression that Dodi Fayed was ‘the one’ in her life although he described the relationship as an ‘exciting time’ for Diana.”Mar. 4, 2008 update: Hasnat Khan has spoken up and, as paraphrased by the Daily Telegraph, indicated that he was introduced Diana’s two sons, Princes William and Harry. Khan said that if he and Diana “had married he would not have expected her to have converted to Islam. His only concern would have been which religion to bring up any children they had.”Feb. 9, 2010 update: “Prince Charles wowed by whirling dervishes at celebration sponsored by Shaykh Hisham Kabbani” reads the title in the Asian News. Some details:Prince Charles was guest of honour at a celebration of Sufi Muslim culture at Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground where he was entertained by whirlers in traditional dress. Greeted by artists, religious leaders and musicians, he made his way into a hushed hall at the stadium where he enjoyed a musical recitation of the Holy Quran accompanied by a whirling dervishes dressed in traditional costumes.Not all of the audience at the Sheldonian Theatre was riveted by Prince Charles’ speech on environmentalism.Mar. 16, 2010 update: On a visit to Poland, Charles took the highly ususual step to visit the small wooden Tatar mosque in Kruszyniany, chatting to the imam there, and sampling some traditional Tatar foods, including pirogue pierekaczewnik.Prince Charles talking with the imam at the Tatar mosque in Kruszyniany, Poland.June 10, 2010 update: Charles says the West must learn environmental policies from Islam. In an hour-long speech on “Islam and the Environment” at Oxford University’s Sheldonian Theatre on behalf of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, reports Rebecca English of the Daily Mail, “the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions – but particularly those of Islam.” He “spoke in depth about his own study of the Koran which, he said, tells its followers that there is ‘no separation between man and nature’ and says we must always live within our environment’s limits.” He also said:The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason – and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us. Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation.Mar. 14, 2013 update: Prince Charles has been taking Arabic lessons, he acknowledged on a trip to Qatar. The Daily Telegraph (London) tells the story:The Prince was in Doha attending the launch of the Qatar-UK Alumni Network, for Qataris who have attended British universities, when he told a group of guests: “You all speak such good English.”Dr Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada, chairman of the association and Qatar’s energy minister, asked the Prince if he spoke any Arabic, and the Prince said: “I tried to learn it once but I gave up. It goes in one ear and out the other.” Dr Al-Sada told him: “It’s never too late to learn.”Later, one of the Prince’s aides confirmed that he has been having lessons in Arabic recently, adding: “He is enormously interested in the region.” The Prince speaks good French, some German, and has also had lessons in Welsh.The newspaper story, by Gordon Rayner, adds a touch of local color: “All of the women at the reception were dressed head to toe in black, wearing a traditional shaila on their head and an abayya covering their body. … All of the men in the room wore a traditional white thobe from neck to foot, with a ghitra on their head secured by a band called an igul.”Prince Charles meets with Qataris who attended British universities.Comments: (1) Curious that the prince would travel the whole way to Qatar for something as minuscule as the launch of the Qatar-UK Alumni Network; that he did would seem to confirm either Qatar’s prowess in Great Britain or Charles’ affection for the Middle East, or both. (2) To see the connection between learning Arabic and conversion to Islam, see my lengthy blog at “The Arabist and Islamist Baggage of Arabic Language Instruction.”Aug. 20, 2013 update: Off on a little tangent: Ezra Levant notes that Justin Trudeau, the new head of Canada’s Liberal party, attended the Surrey Jamia Masjid in British Columbia during the evening prayer wearing an Arab jalabiya and while there took part in the prayer service, complete with the shahada, the Islamic profession of faith. Meanwhile, his wife Sophie “recently posed for a picture with Trudeau’s mother, Margaret, in honour of Mother’s Day. And in that photo, they were both wearing the Muslim hijab hair-covering. Why would you do that on Mother’s Day – a secular holiday with no Muslim or ethnic characteristic to it at all? Why add in the Sharia element?” Oh, and his senior policy adviser happens to be Omar Alghabra, an Islamist well known to readers of this blog.Levant writes that despite these theatrics, he does not think Trudeau is a Muslim.Dec. 18, 2013 update: In a surprise reversal, Prince Charles yesterday focused on the tribulations of Middle Eastern Christians at Islamist hands while visiting the British branches of the Egyptian and Syriac churches.We cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are, increasingly, being deliberately attacked by fundamentalist Islamist militants. For 20 years, I have tried to build bridges between Islam and Christianity and to dispel ignorance and misunderstanding. The point though, surely, is that we have now reached a crisis where the bridges are rapidly being deliberately destroyed by those with a vested interest in doing so. This is achieved through intimidation, false accusation and organised persecution, including to Christian communities in the Middle East at the present time. Christianity was, literally, born in the Middle East and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.Comment: Has something happened to open Charles’ eyes to the dangers of Islamism? If so, this could be an important portent for Great Britain.Feb. 18, 2014 update: Charles is again dressing up as a Muslim, this time to take part in a “sword dance” in Saudi Arabia.Prince Charles taking part in an “arda” dance in Riyadh.May 1, 2014 update: A new retelling of the Rushdie affair quotes Martin Amis on the 1989 reaction of Prince Charles to the Khomeini edict against Rushdie:I had an argument with Prince Charles at a small dinner party. He said—very typically, it seems to me—”I’m sorry, but if someone insults someone else’s deepest convictions, well then,” blah blah blah … And I said that a novel doesn’t set out to insult anyone. “It sets out to give pleasure to its readers,” I told him. “A novel is an essentially playful undertaking, and this is an exceedingly playful novel.” “The Prince took it on board, but I’d suppose the next night at a different party he would have said the same thing.Nov. 5, 2014 update: Prince Charles recorded a video message calling on Muslim leaders not to remain silent about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East – an area where Christians have lived for 2,000 years, and across which Islam spread in 700 AD, with people of different faiths living together peaceably for centuries. It seems to me that our future as a free society – both here in Britain and throughout the world – depends on recognising the crucial role played by people of faith. And, of course, religious faith is all the more convincing to those outside the faith when it is expressed with humility and compassion, giving space to others, whatever their beliefs. … First and foremost, rather than remaining silent, faith leaders have, it seems to me, a responsibility to ensure that people within their own tradition respect people from other faith traditions.The report, from Sky News, goes on:Charles said he did not want to be seen as Defender of the Faith, the title held by each monarch since Henry VIII, but as Defender of Faith in general. But he maintained that this conviction was rooted in his own Christian faith. “My own Christian faith has enabled me to speak to, and to listen to, people from other traditions, including Islam.”Comments: (1) To my knowledge, in the 17 years I have been following the topic of Charles and Islam, he has never made such a statement in which he forthrightly mentions his Christian faith as he does here. (2) Charles’ willingness to speak out on this topic is a possibly significant signal of a change in mood toward Muslims and Islam in the United Kingdom.Feb. 7, 2015 update: A new, more robust Prince Charles? In an interview on BBC Radio 2’s The Sunday Hour, he made a number of comments very much at odds with the statements and actions logged in the Middle East Quarterly and here over the past two decades:”There is a real worry that there could come a time when there are no Christians left in the Middle East because the numbers have gone so dramatically down. … Christians have been in the Middle East for 2,000 years, before Islam came in the 8th century.” [Should be 7th. DP]”The radicalisation of people in Britain is a great worry, and the extent to which this is happening is alarming, particularly in a country like ours where we hold values dear. You would think the people who have come here, or are born here, and go to school here, would abide by those values and outlooks. … how you prevent radicalisation in the first place is the great challenge. You cannot just sweep it under the carpet. But the most important thing is to remind people of the distortions that are made of great religions, and the original ideas of the founders of these religions. Often you find their message is so distorted by their putative followers. That’s the tragedy and, of course, traditional Islam does not permit this sort of thing.””When I called myself Defender of Faith all those years ago I was trying to describe the inclusion of other people’s faiths and their freedom to worship in this country. At the same time as being Defender of the Faith, you can also be protector of other faiths. From that point of view, it was very interesting that 20 years or more after I mentioned this frequently misinterpreted phrase, the Queen, in her address to faith leaders around the time of the Jubilee, said that as far as the role of the Church of England was concerned, it is not to defend Anglicanism to the exclusion of other religions but to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country. She was conveying what I was trying to say.”Also, as reported by the Mail on Sunday, Charles “is to tell new Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud to his face that he should stop the 1,000 lashes handed down as punishment to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi for comments which the regime claimed were critical of Islam.”Comment: Standing up for Middle East Christians, decrying Islamism, and keeping the traditional monarchical title: does this shift reflect just the thinking of one idiosyncratic prince or does it indicate something larger is going on in the country?Dec. 22, 2016 update: The old Prince Charles is back, with a vengeance, delivering a public address on religion that contained this unforgettably “Chrislamic” Yuletide statement:Normally at Christmas, we think of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. I wonder, though, if this year we might … also remember that when the Prophet Mohammed migrated from Mecca to Medina he did so because he too was seeking the freedom for himself and his followers to worship.Mar. 31, 2017 update: The historian Sally Bedell Smith documents in a new book, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life that in 2001, four weeks after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and two weeks before the start of the month of Ramadan, Charles called on the American ambassador in London, William Farish, to appeal to President George W. Bush to halt the fighting to “honor” Ramadan.Farish replied, “Sir, are you really serious?” To which Charles replied, “Yes I am.” Farish noted that it would be difficult to halt a military invasion already underway, to which the prince protested: “But Americans can do anything!” This appeal, it bears noting, was not coordinated with or even known by the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair.Nov. 11, 2017 update: A private letter by Prince Charles dated Nov. 24, 1986, has just surfaced, following on an official visit the then 38-year-old prince had made to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar.Tried to read bit of Koran on way out and it gave me some insight into way they [Arabs] think and operate.Don’t think they could understand us through reading Bible though. Much admire some aspects of Islam – especially accent on hospitality and accessibility of rulers.Also begin to understand better their point of view about Israel. Never realised they see it as a US colony.I now appreciate that Arabs and Jews were all a Semitic people originally + it is the influx of foreign, European Jews (especially from Poland, they say) which has helped to cause great problems.I know there are so many complex issues, but how can there ever be an end to terrorism unless the causes are eliminated?Surely some US president has to have the courage to stand up and take on the Jewish lobby in US? I must be naive, I suppose!Sep, 10, 2022 update: Queen Elizabeth II died two days ago and her eldest son today became King Charles III. Presumably, he will not take up subjects connected to Islam for some time. And when he does, it will be more cautiously than in the past. In any case, I will follow the topic.Sep, 12, 2022 update: Charles becoming king has brought new attention to this entry. Sadly, much of it is inaccurate, ignoring the fact that I clearly state (in the Aug. 2, 2005 update) that Charles “is not a Muslim.”Exhibit A: Peter Oborne and Imran Mulla write that it “cites numerous pieces of ‘evidence’ that he himself has become Muslim.”Exhibit B: Abukar Arman (republished here) calls it “a long dossier to implicate Prince Charles as a Muslim in disguise.”Related Topics:  Converts to and from Islam, Muslims in the United Kingdom, Persian Gulf & YemenRelated Articles:The Liverpool Bomber and Fake Muslim Conversion to ChristianityBritish Culture – Worth Saving?Jihadis Spare Muslims, Murder Infidelsreceive the latest by email: subscribe to daniel pipes’ free mailing listThe above text may be cited; it may also be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL.Submit a comment on this itemReader comments (268) on this itemFilter by date, name, title: TitleCommenterDateFaith. [76 words]AlbertE.Sep 21, 2022 17:042The most devout Christian that I have ever known about is king Charles the III. [584 words]PrashantSep 12, 2022 00:41The most devout Christian… [22 words]Aisha SiddiquiSep 13, 2022 14:28Please explain how [77 words]PrashantSep 13, 2022 21:48Religious Perceptions of Superiority of Belief are Lost Causes in Modern Examination of Spirituality [430 words]M ToveySep 14, 2022 14:451Decision God save the King, but which God? [81 words]HarveySep 11, 2022 21:50Saving the King – or Saving the Country – Heart of the Regent Not Determined by Rituals – But Duty Should Reign Supreme [261 words]M ToveySep 12, 2022 13:48What are you expecting?. 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The Royal Family DEFINES English Christianity, whatever they believe [80 words]Michael SFeb 11, 2015 10:04of monarchs and primates [422 words]rwFeb 14, 2018 05:29PRINCE CHARLES OF ENGLAND [52 words] w/response from Daniel PipesAmeer Labeeb HassanMay 18, 2014 00:56What’s with the bandolier? [22 words]KeithFeb 20, 2014 07:394Justin Trudeau is clueless [73 words]dhimmi no moreSep 2, 2013 06:27Why Prince Charles became interested in Islam? [13 words]MichaelApr 4, 2013 15:101The Religion of Charlie Windsor [132 words]Kepha HorMar 18, 2013 20:4415Prince Charles and islam and Muslims! [347 words]dhimmi no moreMar 23, 2013 17:37Here’s what I’m talking about [50 words]Kepha HorMar 25, 2013 05:537Muslims and their Mullahs! [35 words]dhimmi no moreMar 27, 2013 07:064To Dhimmi no More [133 words]Kepha HorDec 24, 2013 18:466Is it possible to translate the Qur’an and can we trust translations of the Qur’an by Muslims? You judge for yourself [381 words]dhimmi no moreDec 26, 2013 12:471All answers are in Pg99 of Al Mawrid Pg426 of Hans Wher [80 words]Amin RiazMay 23, 2014 12:045Is Prince Charles another wannabe Arab? [101 words]dhimmi no moreMar 16, 2013 16:29For Dhimmi No More [278 words]Kepha HorApr 7, 2017 19:58Don’t read Yusuf Ali’s translation He had no shame [183 words]dhimmi no moreApr 9, 2017 11:263Islam [26 words]Weight ConversionJul 2, 2011 01:39Prince Charles is just being him … servant of God [61 words]Norodin LucmanNov 30, 2010 23:321why mocking at prince? [53 words]muhammadJun 30, 2010 08:523Prince Charles is Muslim [26 words]Rifa’i KurdiJun 25, 2010 16:02Possible reason for connecting Islam and environmentalism [339 words]VijayJun 16, 2010 15:28Anything goes [57 words]VijayJun 12, 2010 18:525Prince Charles what a mug. [272 words]Gordon WeareJun 11, 2010 05:475Prince of Ignorance [67 words]CaroleJun 11, 2010 17:581Maybe… [9 words]SilverJun 11, 2010 21:435‘DECEIT’ HAS NO CLASS BOUNDARIES. [168 words]Gordon WeareJun 11, 2010 23:291😐 [6 words]AdamJun 15, 2010 08:035islam [82 words]sara (3)Aug 27, 2010 00:313The U.K. is doomed ! [33 words]Phil GreendMar 16, 2013 16:12Choose this Day. [165 words]Gordon WeareMar 19, 2013 01:342Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam? [214 words]GayeJul 10, 2014 08:1511I was wrong in ’07 when I said Prince Charles should speak in mecca against islam, …..silly me, non-muslims are not allowed in mecca, islam has apartheid ! [107 words]Phil GreendJun 10, 2010 22:272Gosh, What A Dweeb [48 words]Duke of OilJun 10, 2010 15:1114If Islam is so peaceful… [342 words]SilverJun 10, 2010 14:00Objectivity please… [82 words]Cem CelebiJun 11, 2010 08:353Behold! donot judge a religion by looking at the followers. [212 words]karimAug 12, 2010 07:303none is so blind as one who won’t see [67 words]car313Oct 22, 2011 16:031Never judge Islam by observing Muslims. Why? [154 words]JoshOct 23, 2011 22:221Please re-read my post Josh! [28 words]car313Oct 25, 2011 00:36Objectivity? [95 words]coolmanDec 21, 2011 16:342Behold! Ignore the facts and read the koran instead (not the valid part) [279 words]truthmanJun 19, 2012 00:11The purpose is not what you may believe [84 words]Sounding the 7th trumpetApr 3, 2010 16:041NO RELIGION SAYS TO KILL ONLY MEN WHO ARE BRAIN WASHED AND KILL FOR THERE OWN BENEFITS [194 words]michael temelFeb 7, 2010 19:201Smell the Islamic Flowers [92 words]PeterMay 14, 2013 08:31converts to Islam [43 words]b soetoroJan 19, 2010 02:31Charles and Secular Britain [57 words]gswDec 18, 2009 02:225WESTERN SOCIETY IN DENIAL. [328 words]gordon weareAug 27, 2010 18:40find the common ground [272 words]M.amriottiApr 28, 2009 06:53God Says [267 words]mustafaMay 3, 2009 04:16revertion [8 words]shafeeqApr 6, 2009 17:06islam is not teroris [13 words]angga priatnaFeb 3, 2009 22:29Charles realised the Truth at last and England would be blessed [134 words]SaaraJan 18, 2009 22:252Prince Charles and the Jackson contact with Islam [290 words]IsaacJul 3, 2009 13:42Islam [8 words]SaqibJan 16, 2009 10:18Islam a NO NO [52 words]AngelNov 11, 2008 20:53Islam a No No [17 words]WatcherNov 17, 2008 06:03to angel and watcher [68 words]U.SNov 18, 2008 12:38king of islam [60 words]mahmoud rababah. jordanFeb 5, 2009 17:242ISLAM IS NOT ABRAHAMIC FAITH [31 words]citizenSep 5, 2008 10:24Islam IS the religion of Abraham [146 words]MuslimahNov 7, 2008 16:521muslimah [295 words]btilly`Nov 8, 2008 09:51Ah, ah, ah…. [45 words]Ynna tchkahNov 8, 2008 11:342Islam is the religion of Mohammad [46 words]LynnNov 9, 2008 16:18Prediction of the displacement of the Jewish race [195 words]esanNov 13, 2008 18:52you are mess up btilly [191 words]TexasNov 14, 2008 14:201And to you a warning from Jesus. [89 words]LynnNov 19, 2008 10:0428Jesus was sent to the house of Israel ony not to the whole world [259 words]esanDec 7, 2008 14:33Keep reading. [86 words]LynnDec 8, 2008 10:223How can you be so sure Abraham was a muslim? [145 words]ZenDec 14, 2008 22:221Was Allah a Pre-Islamic pagan deity? response to citizen [373 words]Anne A.Dec 19, 2008 12:12Yes there are warning signs from Jesus–response to Lynn [211 words]Anne A.Dec 19, 2008 12:371What a joke…. [86 words]JaimeDec 27, 2008 16:44bTILLY [219 words]SaaraJan 18, 2009 22:20texas [103 words]btillyJan 30, 2009 10:35to bittly [70 words]texasJan 31, 2009 00:29God of Abraham… [161 words]RMS RahmanFeb 5, 2009 13:14islam does not have a name [60 words]lisaJan 29, 2010 10:19The Bible is correct [55 words]AndySep 12, 2011 05:162Jesus Christ did not die…. [139 words]Andy WelikalaFeb 17, 2014 13:01Jesus did help non Hebrews [21 words]CandiceJul 28, 2014 22:20I Think You May Be Right [134 words]John HigginsAug 9, 2016 02:431Jesus not sent only to Israel Matthew 15:24 [156 words]kevinFeb 21, 2017 22:36To esan [81 words]Kepha HorApr 7, 2017 20:061Jesus was sent to the house of Israel ony not to the whole world [176 words]AlanAug 5, 2017 15:55A Prophetic Word unto You who are the GENTILE NATIONS of the WORLD, called MANKIND, and unto the JEWS, I AM MESSIAH [7516 words]Prophetess DeborahApr 15, 2018 23:59Jesus was sent for the lost house of Israel only. [248 words]Andrew JohnApr 28, 2018 10:35painfully obvious truth [206 words]JJJan 28, 2019 00:00Why would Allah send a book written in Greek (al-Injil) to an Aramaic speaking “prophet” and his Aramaic speaking people? And gems from our dear JJ [172 words]dhimmi no moreJan 28, 2019 16:06wrong [77 words]shaikh rahmanAug 7, 2008 19:43Is the prince a believer in the truth? [188 words]isaacApr 30, 2008 08:44Really? Really? [53 words]SilverJun 10, 2010 19:312what TRUTH would that be?? [19 words]SilverJun 11, 2010 10:43Right to the throne [19 words]ShakaApr 28, 2008 22:26abdication? [17 words]2008Sep 5, 2008 01:394Prince Charles a muslim ? [139 words]Phil GreendMay 27, 2007 09:17Freedom of speech [45 words]Cape’ DeyJan 16, 2008 23:20Non-muslims often do the biggest favor to Islam [303 words]Som GuptaMar 15, 2008 18:483Re: Non-muslims often do the biggest favor to Islam [271 words]ShamsMar 25, 2008 02:351So what if He is muslim? [62 words]Waqar QaziJul 17, 2011 07:341A New British Age of Religion? [139 words]M ToveyApr 12, 2021 19:11islam always respects other religions [151 words]fahadhamzaph@hotmail.comApr 21, 2007 01:10To Fahad sure it is but… [139 words]SimonJul 16, 2007 22:58To Fahad wrong again…. [64 words]SimonJul 16, 2007 23:03Must be true? [231 words]veronicaSep 1, 2007 14:111“The original Bible” in Vatican? [151 words]MosheSep 2, 2007 16:241May Allah forgive you! [273 words]Ibrahim FaresNov 3, 2007 23:021Gem time from our dear Fahad [607 words]dhimmi no moreMar 15, 2008 09:16Our dear Ibrahim and the word islam [75 words]dhimmi no moreMar 15, 2008 09:281dhimmi no more…. a poor foolish [85 words]fahadMar 17, 2008 13:38which version of the Bible [227 words]esanNov 13, 2008 19:122“The original Bible” in Vatican? Or is this the original Bible at hand [205 words]MustafaDec 19, 2008 18:05Ibrahim Fares-Reply [392 words]IfrahimDec 26, 2008 21:44islam and science [15 words]MUHAMMAD JAWAD QAMARJan 2, 2009 00:48Moshe [79 words]SaaraJan 18, 2009 17:092Your miss understanding of Islam has crippled your visions [1154 words]A follower of the true truthJan 4, 2010 04:47few manuscript [14 words]tikyoJun 3, 2010 02:29why [22 words]x muslimJun 16, 2010 22:232The plight of the cuckolds [139 words]car313Oct 22, 2011 15:57Separation [129 words]sever2morrowApr 20, 2007 11:47Its his life [56 words]milesApr 14, 2007 21:24Miles off… [121 words]sever2morrowApr 20, 2007 11:55A Throne, A Throne, my very Faith for a Throne [214 words]M.D. AnthonyMar 2, 2007 00:16PLEASE, MD Anthony….Brush up on your History and get the Facts right ! [122 words]Bigbazza OzMay 19, 2007 23:061Funny to relate the bombers to Islam [305 words]SomeoneDec 5, 2006 22:572Not a valid comparison [240 words]TerryApr 17, 2007 18:011So few Christians… [18 words]donvanJul 20, 2007 14:06Thank you note [30 words]nkMay 30, 2008 11:02So few Christians–Donvan [246 words]DebbieJul 30, 2008 17:56Prince Charles and Islam [85 words]Mrs. Marlene FlemingNov 29, 2006 14:562Charles the Jester [174 words]dfwhiteNov 10, 2006 15:08Pasha Charles? Islamic prayer room inside walls of Windor castle’ for Muslimah employee’ approved by Queen [351 words]Ben van de PolderNov 6, 2006 09:38Charles and Orthodoxy [182 words]RObOct 17, 2006 10:00It’s just a phase! [286 words]Ahmad NabiMay 24, 2006 01:48Prince Charles is a great man [69 words]HendJun 1, 2007 08:05Fighting islam up front? [35 words]L. DrummondJul 22, 2007 08:562Prince Charles & Islam [44 words]David SnyderMay 21, 2006 17:062An Opportunity Missed [43 words]Bill CorrApr 8, 2006 06:212Bonnie Prince Charlie: Keeper of the Faith? [235 words]Stella (USA)Apr 3, 2006 10:052Anglicans, Academics and Appeasers [168 words]Nabil ShawarmaNov 7, 2006 06:41Charles just does not care [181 words]TerryApr 17, 2007 17:421poor STELLA [82 words]nidalOct 9, 2007 10:341WHATS WRONG WITH HIM BEING MUSLIM? [77 words]frankMar 31, 2006 11:052He’s a Fool [99 words]Chris WillsApr 1, 2006 09:59Still a religion [99 words]khader`Apr 19, 2006 10:08problem is… [15 words]CraigNov 10, 2006 20:23YOU CANNOT BE BOTH [217 words]FREE DEBATEROct 10, 2010 06:38comment [24 words]StuMar 27, 2006 20:571King ali charles [58 words]donvanFeb 28, 2006 10:02British sickness [120 words]ArunFeb 26, 2006 13:57He is not alone! [85 words]AntonioJun 25, 2007 18:21He is not alone….. [93 words]Jamila Al Aridh BaghdadiMay 13, 2010 22:591THE PRINCES NEW CLOTHES – [217 words]Gordon WeareJun 11, 2010 06:13I Dissagree [33 words]Jack robbinsonFeb 25, 2006 05:55The Horse’s Mouth [23 words]Frasnk MayoFeb 21, 2006 15:501why dont you look on the princes side of the story [143 words]yasminFeb 18, 2006 14:322The last Queen [51 words]M.K.Korpela, FinlandFeb 17, 2006 07:582Prince Charles -Royal looney [97 words]Mike RandallFeb 10, 2006 08:56Islam is for All Humanity [78 words]Raiza KJan 25, 2008 13:411Islam is for all Humanity [101 words]DeborahJul 3, 2008 22:571To deborah [179 words]Raiza kJul 15, 2008 16:42Lets understand each other religion before making comments [251 words]esanDec 7, 2008 08:232Yes, let’s understand and respect each others religions before we make comments-response to esan [298 words]DebbieDec 8, 2008 09:563Lets try and come to common terms between us and you [456 words]esanDec 18, 2008 17:25lets try and find common terms between us and you- response to esan [426 words]DebbieDec 18, 2008 23:29esau-muslims dont accept moses or jesus-they were Jews, not muhammad [169 words]btilly`Dec 19, 2008 09:58islam [44 words]mahmoud rababah. jordanFeb 5, 2009 17:38muslims don’t accept Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus [40 words]MSKAug 11, 2011 15:04Jesus only came to save the Israelites [48 words]Gilberto PreciadoNov 16, 2019 16:412The Prince = Hypocrite [185 words]Joe (USA)Feb 9, 2006 02:07so where is the pain [22 words]HarrakFeb 9, 2006 18:54Interesting… [79 words]Chris SorensenFeb 9, 2006 23:35a bit exagerating Chris [115 words]HarrakFeb 10, 2006 23:171You have a short memory! [36 words]RoncesvallesFeb 12, 2006 15:432Ill-advised big mouth! [71 words]RoncesvallesFeb 12, 2006 15:512By the way… [160 words]JohnFeb 22, 2006 09:20Harrak [110 words]DaisyFeb 22, 2006 10:22It is really ignorance the problem,illiteracy of islam [328 words]maha zimaityMay 8, 2006 15:44Prince Saud, Jewish? [79 words]joe kaffirNov 6, 2006 16:58Islam and christianity [292 words]kotsamiMar 14, 2007 04:07How about?? [48 words]John R. LinardJun 16, 2007 20:12what’s different to be a moslem? [181 words]jackeyJul 12, 2007 21:40question to who? [85 words]jackeyJul 15, 2007 05:002To Jackey. [191 words]YnnatchkahJul 15, 2007 19:09the truth about sulawesi [137 words]IndonesianJul 16, 2007 05:072Prince Charles has gone looney [39 words]T.J.Jul 20, 2007 02:122Whats different about a Moslem…. [169 words]donvanJul 20, 2007 14:005Truth about Sulawesi [97 words]John R. LinardJul 21, 2007 15:14🙂 [89 words]JackeyJul 21, 2007 23:38do we actually know everything about Islam? [104 words]JackeyJul 21, 2007 23:491Thank you .. [165 words]donvanJul 23, 2007 08:34Which Koran? [262 words]jackeyJul 23, 2007 21:031here’s the thing… [173 words]donvanJul 24, 2007 15:24wrong thought [202 words]jackeyJul 24, 2007 20:58Koran ‘instructed’ to kill non-moslem or not aren’t we? [62 words]AbuhajiraSep 21, 2007 23:47Destruction in whose name and of whose? [93 words]AbuhajiraSep 21, 2007 23:541Abuhajira – Use the Quran correctly! [275 words]New Zealand KiwiNov 9, 2007 02:49NewZealand Kiwi [517 words]AbuhajiraNov 9, 2007 18:31Abuhajira – Scholars [252 words]KiwiNov 10, 2007 18:33Response to Mr Kiwi [981 words]AbuhajiraNov 12, 2007 11:17Divine [130 words]NZ KiwiNov 13, 2007 21:46Response to “Divine” [819 words]AbuhajiraNov 19, 2007 01:34Kia Ora means good day in the Maori language [172 words]KiwiNov 21, 2007 02:34Response to Kia Ora… [1079 words]AbuhajiraNov 22, 2007 03:221Kia Ora Abuhajira [427 words]KiwiNov 23, 2007 04:26Final Reply to this tit for tat… [307 words]AbuhajiraNov 24, 2007 02:25Kia ora, Kiwi! [19 words]BystanderDec 21, 2007 15:29Thank you, Bystander [53 words]KiwiDec 28, 2007 20:30complement to Abuhajira [53 words]AishaMar 12, 2008 18:55Subhan Allah… [84 words]ZakiApr 4, 2008 09:36Moroccans… [43 words]AbuhajiraApr 6, 2008 04:371Zaki, my dear [326 words]KiwiApr 7, 2008 21:37To Kiwi dearest [42 words]BAMay 19, 2008 12:101BA Darling [143 words]KiwiMay 19, 2008 19:54Kiwi dearest [128 words]BAMay 29, 2008 15:42In the bible you will find terrors [88 words]esanNov 13, 2008 18:263The fall of Islam [295 words]StuDec 1, 2008 16:532The Fall of … [66 words]KamelMay 17, 2009 18:334peaceful religion….yeah right [245 words]StuMay 18, 2009 23:46Supression [72 words]StiflerDec 31, 2009 08:542can you please tell that to the extremists? [66 words]SilverJun 11, 2010 08:48to SILVER: uncovered doesn’t mean inexist [106 words]argunAug 5, 2010 08:553THE DANGER OF RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY [237 words]Lyle SharkyOct 1, 2010 04:58	Latest ArticlesAngry Conservatives, ExplainedThe Genteel Martyrdom of Israel HatersBlankets, Bombs, or BribesFollow Daniel Pipes      Most ViewedA Decent Gaza Is PossibleDr. Zuhdi JasserA Muslim Aliyah Paralleled the Jewish AliyahAdvice to Non-Muslim Women against Marrying Muslim MenReview of From Time Immemorial
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