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Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam? :: Daniel Pipes
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Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam?

by Daniel Pipes
Jan 24, 2003
updated Sep 13, 2022

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In 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.

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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.

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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 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.​

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 20^th century, our nations stood together to ensure that fascism did not prevail in Europe. In the second half of the 20^th 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 21^st 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 30^th 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."

1. Writing from Konya, Turkey, about Prince Charles' visit there to the shrine of Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi during the 800^th 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."
2. 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 Diana

held 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 8^th century." [Should be 7^th. 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."

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		Faith. [76 words]	AlbertE.	Sep 21, 2022 17:04
	1	The most devout Christian that I have ever known about is king Charles the III. [584 words]	Prashant	Sep 12, 2022 00:41
		The most devout Christian... [22 words]	Aisha Siddiqui	Sep 13, 2022 14:28
		Please explain how [77 words]	Prashant	Sep 13, 2022 21:48
		Religious Perceptions of Superiority of Belief are Lost Causes in Modern Examination of Spirituality [430 words]	M Tovey	Sep 14, 2022 14:45
	1	Decision God save the King, but which God? [81 words]	Harvey	Sep 11, 2022 21:50
		Saving the King - or Saving the Country - Heart of the Regent Not Determined by Rituals - But Duty Should Reign Supreme [261 words]	M Tovey	Sep 12, 2022 13:48
		What are you expecting?. Honestly! [280 words]	Harvey	Sep 12, 2022 18:43
		Expectation that Salvation the Only Reality that Has a Chance of Survival [298 words]	M Tovey	Sep 12, 2022 19:43
		Speaking as a Christian [142 words]	Harvey	Sep 13, 2022 18:53
		Now King Charles it remains to be seen now this plays out [14 words]	Beverly McCaffrey	Sep 10, 2022 17:43
		Bonnie Prince Charles [68 words]	Charles Ford	Sep 9, 2022 15:58
	1	When unprincipled living becomes a habit [295 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Prashant	Jun 27, 2022 15:02
	1	Prashant's Moralizing over King Charles III [438 words]	Robert	Sep 26, 2022 11:44
	1	If Charles-III accepted the suitcase full of cash from Qatar then... [72 words]	Prashant	Sep 27, 2022 23:41
	1	The Royal Family of the United Kingdom [207 words]	Robert	Sep 28, 2022 12:39
		Regal Widowhood - Victoria Then; Elizabeth II Now [146 words]	M Tovey	Apr 22, 2021 17:51
		Endangerng the Legacy of the Crown - Tarnished Reputation Notwithstanding - 3 Million Seems Paltry [209 words]	M Tovey	Jun 28, 2022 10:19
		All Speculations Aside - Reality of British Monarchy Now in Focus as Next In Line Is To Be Revealed [80 words]	M Tovey	Sep 8, 2022 13:55
		Twirling [39 words]	jo	Sep 7, 2020 17:02
	2	Prince Charles celebrating the sword [79 words]	jo	Sep 7, 2020 16:58
	1	The first monarch to think about religion since Henry VIII [287 words]	Luqman	Jan 5, 2020 05:43
	8	Whom you are trying to fool, Mr Laqman? [87 words]	Prashant	Jan 8, 2020 07:02
		the conspiracy is wrong [249 words]	1947	Dec 25, 2019 17:45
		Prince Charles' statements regarding Islam [93 words]	Prashant	Oct 20, 2018 11:10
	1	An Islamic Constantine? [16 words]	Reynald de Chatillon	Mar 29, 2018 00:47
		Charlie [8 words]	Lynny	Mar 28, 2018 10:08
	1	Please Sir, please educate Charles on Islam. [12 words]	Kim	Mar 26, 2018 19:17
	1	King Charles [24 words]	AlbertE.	Mar 23, 2018 12:56
		Charles may not be Muslim, but he sure likes carrying the Islamists' water... [40 words]	Leslie	Nov 19, 2017 07:33
	1	Charlie Windsor's religion [72 words]	Kepha	Nov 14, 2017 20:43
		Prince Charles - Follow Islam to save the World - Thank You Brother [14 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Daniela Todescu	Apr 2, 2017 15:41
		Nowhere in this video Prince Charles suggested that anyone should follow Islam [50 words]	Prashant	Apr 4, 2017 01:05
		The missing names: Martin Lings and... [11 words]	Flavio	Mar 23, 2017 19:29
	1	Royal Dhimmitude [72 words]	Frank Hepple	Dec 28, 2016 02:45
	5	Does Amercia already have a Muslim Government?? [564 words]	Martin Lauchenauer	May 6, 2016 02:13
		Quote by Obama taken out of context [155 words]	Esther Sie	Nov 12, 2016 15:24
		Prince Charles & islam [19 words]	ashton alkin	Jun 19, 2015 17:01
		not so [182 words]	rw	Feb 15, 2015 18:05
	1	The fool has found a new hobby [78 words]	Doramin	Feb 14, 2015 10:43
		they already serve the same god [140 words]	chip griffin	Jan 8, 2015 21:24
	1	Raising awareness of Islam [121 words]	Michael S	Jan 8, 2015 17:59
		Good for HRH--finally [55 words]	Kepha Hor	Dec 21, 2014 20:38
	1	Christians in the Middle East [214 words]	dhimmi no more	Dec 21, 2014 11:46
		Both William and Charles are Muslim [32 words]	Little Bright Feather	Nov 5, 2014 01:23
	3	Charles is not a muslim [140 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	rw	Jun 20, 2014 01:16
		Pish. The Royal Family DEFINES English Christianity, whatever they believe [80 words]	Michael S	Feb 11, 2015 10:04
		of monarchs and primates [422 words]	rw	Feb 14, 2018 05:29
		PRINCE CHARLES OF ENGLAND [52 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Ameer Labeeb Hassan	May 18, 2014 00:56
		What's with the bandolier? [22 words]	Keith	Feb 20, 2014 07:39
	4	Justin Trudeau is clueless [73 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 2, 2013 06:27
		Why Prince Charles became interested in Islam? [13 words]	Michael	Apr 4, 2013 15:10
	1	The Religion of Charlie Windsor [132 words]	Kepha Hor	Mar 18, 2013 20:44
	15	Prince Charles and islam and Muslims! [347 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 23, 2013 17:37
		Here's what I'm talking about [50 words]	Kepha Hor	Mar 25, 2013 05:53
	7	Muslims and their Mullahs! [35 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 27, 2013 07:06
	4	To Dhimmi no More [133 words]	Kepha Hor	Dec 24, 2013 18:46
	6	Is 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 more	Dec 26, 2013 12:47
	1	All answers are in Pg99 of Al Mawrid Pg426 of Hans Wher [80 words]	Amin Riaz	May 23, 2014 12:04
	5	Is Prince Charles another wannabe Arab? [101 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 16, 2013 16:29
		For Dhimmi No More [278 words]	Kepha Hor	Apr 7, 2017 19:58
		Don't read Yusuf Ali's translation He had no shame [183 words]	dhimmi no more	Apr 9, 2017 11:26
	3	Islam [26 words]	Weight Conversion	Jul 2, 2011 01:39
		Prince Charles is just being him ... servant of God [61 words]	Norodin Lucman	Nov 30, 2010 23:32
	1	why mocking at prince? [53 words]	muhammad	Jun 30, 2010 08:52
	3	Prince Charles is Muslim [26 words]	Rifa'i Kurdi	Jun 25, 2010 16:02
		Possible reason for connecting Islam and environmentalism [339 words]	Vijay	Jun 16, 2010 15:28
		Anything goes [57 words]	Vijay	Jun 12, 2010 18:52
	5	Prince Charles what a mug. [272 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 05:47
	5	Prince of Ignorance [67 words]	Carole	Jun 11, 2010 17:58
	1	Maybe... [9 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 21:43
	5	'DECEIT' HAS NO CLASS BOUNDARIES. [168 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 23:29
	1	:-| [6 words]	Adam	Jun 15, 2010 08:03
	5	islam [82 words]	sara (3)	Aug 27, 2010 00:31
	3	The U.K. is doomed ! [33 words]	Phil Greend	Mar 16, 2013 16:12
		Choose this Day. [165 words]	Gordon Weare	Mar 19, 2013 01:34
	2	Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam? [214 words]	Gaye	Jul 10, 2014 08:15
	11	I 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 Greend	Jun 10, 2010 22:27
	2	Gosh, What A Dweeb [48 words]	Duke of Oil	Jun 10, 2010 15:11
	14	If Islam is so peaceful... [342 words]	Silver	Jun 10, 2010 14:00
		Objectivity please... [82 words]	Cem Celebi	Jun 11, 2010 08:35
	3	Behold! donot judge a religion by looking at the followers. [212 words]	karim	Aug 12, 2010 07:30
	3	none is so blind as one who won't see [67 words]	car313	Oct 22, 2011 16:03
	1	Never judge Islam by observing Muslims. Why? [154 words]	Josh	Oct 23, 2011 22:22
	1	Please re-read my post Josh! [28 words]	car313	Oct 25, 2011 00:36
		Objectivity? [95 words]	coolman	Dec 21, 2011 16:34
	2	Behold! Ignore the facts and read the koran instead (not the valid part) [279 words]	truthman	Jun 19, 2012 00:11
		The purpose is not what you may believe [84 words]	Sounding the 7th trumpet	Apr 3, 2010 16:04
	1	NO RELIGION SAYS TO KILL ONLY MEN WHO ARE BRAIN WASHED AND KILL FOR THERE OWN BENEFITS [194 words]	michael temel	Feb 7, 2010 19:20
	1	Smell the Islamic Flowers [92 words]	Peter	May 14, 2013 08:31
		converts to Islam [43 words]	b soetoro	Jan 19, 2010 02:31
		Charles and Secular Britain [57 words]	gsw	Dec 18, 2009 02:22
	5	WESTERN SOCIETY IN DENIAL. [328 words]	gordon weare	Aug 27, 2010 18:40
		find the common ground [272 words]	M.amriotti	Apr 28, 2009 06:53
		God Says [267 words]	mustafa	May 3, 2009 04:16
		revertion [8 words]	shafeeq	Apr 6, 2009 17:06
		islam is not teroris [13 words]	angga priatna	Feb 3, 2009 22:29
		Charles realised the Truth at last and England would be blessed [134 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 22:25
	2	Prince Charles and the Jackson contact with Islam [290 words]	Isaac	Jul 3, 2009 13:42
		Islam [8 words]	Saqib	Jan 16, 2009 10:18
		Islam a NO NO [52 words]	Angel	Nov 11, 2008 20:53
		Islam a No No [17 words]	Watcher	Nov 17, 2008 06:03
		to angel and watcher [68 words]	U.S	Nov 18, 2008 12:38
		king of islam [60 words]	mahmoud rababah. jordan	Feb 5, 2009 17:24
	2	ISLAM IS NOT ABRAHAMIC FAITH [31 words]	citizen	Sep 5, 2008 10:24
		Islam IS the religion of Abraham [146 words]	Muslimah	Nov 7, 2008 16:52
	1	muslimah [295 words]	btilly`	Nov 8, 2008 09:51
		Ah, ah, ah.... [45 words]	Ynna tchkah	Nov 8, 2008 11:34
	2	Islam is the religion of Mohammad [46 words]	Lynn	Nov 9, 2008 16:18
		Prediction of the displacement of the Jewish race [195 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 18:52
		you are mess up btilly [191 words]	Texas	Nov 14, 2008 14:20
	1	And to you a warning from Jesus. [89 words]	Lynn	Nov 19, 2008 10:04
	28	Jesus was sent to the house of Israel ony not to the whole world [259 words]	esan	Dec 7, 2008 14:33
		Keep reading. [86 words]	Lynn	Dec 8, 2008 10:22
	3	How can you be so sure Abraham was a muslim? [145 words]	Zen	Dec 14, 2008 22:22
	1	Was Allah a Pre-Islamic pagan deity? response to citizen [373 words]	Anne A.	Dec 19, 2008 12:12
		Yes there are warning signs from Jesus--response to Lynn [211 words]	Anne A.	Dec 19, 2008 12:37
	1	What a joke.... [86 words]	Jaime	Dec 27, 2008 16:44
		bTILLY [219 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 22:20
		texas [103 words]	btilly	Jan 30, 2009 10:35
		to bittly [70 words]	texas	Jan 31, 2009 00:29
		God of Abraham... [161 words]	RMS Rahman	Feb 5, 2009 13:14
		islam does not have a name [60 words]	lisa	Jan 29, 2010 10:19
		The Bible is correct [55 words]	Andy	Sep 12, 2011 05:16
	2	Jesus Christ did not die.... [139 words]	Andy Welikala	Feb 17, 2014 13:01
		Jesus did help non Hebrews [21 words]	Candice	Jul 28, 2014 22:20
		I Think You May Be Right [134 words]	John Higgins	Aug 9, 2016 02:43
	1	Jesus not sent only to Israel Matthew 15:24 [156 words]	kevin	Feb 21, 2017 22:36
		To esan [81 words]	Kepha Hor	Apr 7, 2017 20:06
	1	Jesus was sent to the house of Israel ony not to the whole world [176 words]	Alan	Aug 5, 2017 15:55
		A Prophetic Word unto You who are the GENTILE NATIONS of the WORLD, called MANKIND, and unto the JEWS, I AM MESSIAH [7516 words]	Prophetess Deborah	Apr 15, 2018 23:59
		Jesus was sent for the lost house of Israel only. [248 words]	Andrew John	Apr 28, 2018 10:35
		painfully obvious truth [206 words]	JJ	Jan 28, 2019 00:00
		Why 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 more	Jan 28, 2019 16:06
		wrong [77 words]	shaikh rahman	Aug 7, 2008 19:43
		Is the prince a believer in the truth? [188 words]	isaac	Apr 30, 2008 08:44
		Really? Really? [53 words]	Silver	Jun 10, 2010 19:31
	2	what TRUTH would that be?? [19 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 10:43
		Right to the throne [19 words]	Shaka	Apr 28, 2008 22:26
		abdication? [17 words]	2008	Sep 5, 2008 01:39
	4	Prince Charles a muslim ? [139 words]	Phil Greend	May 27, 2007 09:17
		Freedom of speech [45 words]	Cape' Dey	Jan 16, 2008 23:20
		Non-muslims often do the biggest favor to Islam [303 words]	Som Gupta	Mar 15, 2008 18:48
	3	Re: Non-muslims often do the biggest favor to Islam [271 words]	Shams	Mar 25, 2008 02:35
	1	So what if He is muslim? [62 words]	Waqar Qazi	Jul 17, 2011 07:34
		A New British Age of Religion? [139 words]	M Tovey	Apr 12, 2021 19:11
		islam always respects other religions [151 words]	fahadhamzaph@hotmail.com	Apr 21, 2007 01:10
		To Fahad sure it is but... [139 words]	Simon	Jul 16, 2007 22:58
		To Fahad wrong again.... [64 words]	Simon	Jul 16, 2007 23:03
		Must be true? [231 words]	veronica	Sep 1, 2007 14:11
	1	"The original Bible" in Vatican? [151 words]	Moshe	Sep 2, 2007 16:24
	1	May Allah forgive you! [273 words]	Ibrahim Fares	Nov 3, 2007 23:02
	1	Gem time from our dear Fahad [607 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 15, 2008 09:16
		Our dear Ibrahim and the word islam [75 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 15, 2008 09:28
	1	dhimmi no more.... a poor foolish [85 words]	fahad	Mar 17, 2008 13:38
		which version of the Bible [227 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 19:12
	2	"The original Bible" in Vatican? Or is this the original Bible at hand [205 words]	Mustafa	Dec 19, 2008 18:05
		Ibrahim Fares-Reply [392 words]	Ifrahim	Dec 26, 2008 21:44
		islam and science [15 words]	MUHAMMAD JAWAD QAMAR	Jan 2, 2009 00:48
		Moshe [79 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 17:09
	2	Your miss understanding of Islam has crippled your visions [1154 words]	A follower of the true truth	Jan 4, 2010 04:47
		few manuscript [14 words]	tikyo	Jun 3, 2010 02:29
		why [22 words]	x muslim	Jun 16, 2010 22:23
	2	The plight of the cuckolds [139 words]	car313	Oct 22, 2011 15:57
		Separation [129 words]	sever2morrow	Apr 20, 2007 11:47
		Its his life [56 words]	miles	Apr 14, 2007 21:24
		Miles off... [121 words]	sever2morrow	Apr 20, 2007 11:55
		A Throne, A Throne, my very Faith for a Throne [214 words]	M.D. Anthony	Mar 2, 2007 00:16
		PLEASE, MD Anthony....Brush up on your History and get the Facts right ! [122 words]	Bigbazza Oz	May 19, 2007 23:06
	1	Funny to relate the bombers to Islam [305 words]	Someone	Dec 5, 2006 22:57
	2	Not a valid comparison [240 words]	Terry	Apr 17, 2007 18:01
	1	So few Christians... [18 words]	donvan	Jul 20, 2007 14:06
		Thank you note [30 words]	nk	May 30, 2008 11:02
		So few Christians--Donvan [246 words]	Debbie	Jul 30, 2008 17:56
		Prince Charles and Islam [85 words]	Mrs. Marlene Fleming	Nov 29, 2006 14:56
	2	Charles the Jester [174 words]	dfwhite	Nov 10, 2006 15:08
		Pasha Charles? Islamic prayer room inside walls of Windor castle' for Muslimah employee' approved by Queen [351 words]	Ben van de Polder	Nov 6, 2006 09:38
		Charles and Orthodoxy [182 words]	ROb	Oct 17, 2006 10:00
		It's just a phase! [286 words]	Ahmad Nabi	May 24, 2006 01:48
		Prince Charles is a great man [69 words]	Hend	Jun 1, 2007 08:05
		Fighting islam up front? [35 words]	L. Drummond	Jul 22, 2007 08:56
	2	Prince Charles & Islam [44 words]	David Snyder	May 21, 2006 17:06
	2	An Opportunity Missed [43 words]	Bill Corr	Apr 8, 2006 06:21
	2	Bonnie Prince Charlie: Keeper of the Faith? [235 words]	Stella (USA)	Apr 3, 2006 10:05
	2	Anglicans, Academics and Appeasers [168 words]	Nabil Shawarma	Nov 7, 2006 06:41
		Charles just does not care [181 words]	Terry	Apr 17, 2007 17:42
	1	poor STELLA [82 words]	nidal	Oct 9, 2007 10:34
	1	WHATS WRONG WITH HIM BEING MUSLIM? [77 words]	frank	Mar 31, 2006 11:05
	2	He's a Fool [99 words]	Chris Wills	Apr 1, 2006 09:59
		Still a religion [99 words]	khader`	Apr 19, 2006 10:08
		problem is... [15 words]	Craig	Nov 10, 2006 20:23
		YOU CANNOT BE BOTH [217 words]	FREE DEBATER	Oct 10, 2010 06:38
		comment [24 words]	Stu	Mar 27, 2006 20:57
	1	King ali charles [58 words]	donvan	Feb 28, 2006 10:02
		British sickness [120 words]	Arun	Feb 26, 2006 13:57
		He is not alone! [85 words]	Antonio	Jun 25, 2007 18:21
		He is not alone..... [93 words]	Jamila Al Aridh Baghdadi	May 13, 2010 22:59
	1	THE PRINCES NEW CLOTHES - [217 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 06:13
		I Dissagree [33 words]	Jack robbinson	Feb 25, 2006 05:55
		The Horse's Mouth [23 words]	Frasnk Mayo	Feb 21, 2006 15:50
	1	why dont you look on the princes side of the story [143 words]	yasmin	Feb 18, 2006 14:32
	2	The last Queen [51 words]	M.K.Korpela, Finland	Feb 17, 2006 07:58
	2	Prince Charles -Royal looney [97 words]	Mike Randall	Feb 10, 2006 08:56
		Islam is for All Humanity [78 words]	Raiza K	Jan 25, 2008 13:41
	1	Islam is for all Humanity [101 words]	Deborah	Jul 3, 2008 22:57
	1	To deborah [179 words]	Raiza k	Jul 15, 2008 16:42
		Lets understand each other religion before making comments [251 words]	esan	Dec 7, 2008 08:23
	2	Yes, let's understand and respect each others religions before we make comments-response to esan [298 words]	Debbie	Dec 8, 2008 09:56
	3	Lets try and come to common terms between us and you [456 words]	esan	Dec 18, 2008 17:25
		lets try and find common terms between us and you- response to esan [426 words]	Debbie	Dec 18, 2008 23:29
		esau-muslims dont accept moses or jesus-they were Jews, not muhammad [169 words]	btilly`	Dec 19, 2008 09:58
		islam [44 words]	mahmoud rababah. jordan	Feb 5, 2009 17:38
		muslims don't accept Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus [40 words]	MSK	Aug 11, 2011 15:04
		Jesus only came to save the Israelites [48 words]	Gilberto Preciado	Nov 16, 2019 16:41
	2	The Prince = Hypocrite [185 words]	Joe (USA)	Feb 9, 2006 02:07
		so where is the pain [22 words]	Harrak	Feb 9, 2006 18:54
		Interesting... [79 words]	Chris Sorensen	Feb 9, 2006 23:35
		a bit exagerating Chris [115 words]	Harrak	Feb 10, 2006 23:17
	1	You have a short memory! [36 words]	Roncesvalles	Feb 12, 2006 15:43
	2	Ill-advised big mouth! [71 words]	Roncesvalles	Feb 12, 2006 15:51
	2	By the way... [160 words]	John	Feb 22, 2006 09:20
		Harrak [110 words]	Daisy	Feb 22, 2006 10:22
		It is really ignorance the problem,illiteracy of islam [328 words]	maha zimaity	May 8, 2006 15:44
		Prince Saud, Jewish? [79 words]	joe kaffir	Nov 6, 2006 16:58
		Islam and christianity [292 words]	kotsami	Mar 14, 2007 04:07
		How about?? [48 words]	John R. Linard	Jun 16, 2007 20:12
		what's different to be a moslem? [181 words]	jackey	Jul 12, 2007 21:40
		question to who? [85 words]	jackey	Jul 15, 2007 05:00
	2	To Jackey. [191 words]	Ynnatchkah	Jul 15, 2007 19:09
		the truth about sulawesi [137 words]	Indonesian	Jul 16, 2007 05:07
	2	Prince Charles has gone looney [39 words]	T.J.	Jul 20, 2007 02:12
	2	Whats different about a Moslem.... [169 words]	donvan	Jul 20, 2007 14:00
	5	Truth about Sulawesi [97 words]	John R. Linard	Jul 21, 2007 15:14
		[89 words]	Jackey	Jul 21, 2007 23:38
		do we actually know everything about Islam? [104 words]	Jackey	Jul 21, 2007 23:49
	1	Thank you .. [165 words]	donvan	Jul 23, 2007 08:34
		Which Koran? [262 words]	jackey	Jul 23, 2007 21:03
	1	here's the thing... [173 words]	donvan	Jul 24, 2007 15:24
		wrong thought [202 words]	jackey	Jul 24, 2007 20:58
		Koran 'instructed' to kill non-moslem or not aren't we? [62 words]	Abuhajira	Sep 21, 2007 23:47
		Destruction in whose name and of whose? [93 words]	Abuhajira	Sep 21, 2007 23:54
	1	Abuhajira - Use the Quran correctly! [275 words]	New Zealand Kiwi	Nov 9, 2007 02:49
		NewZealand Kiwi [517 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 9, 2007 18:31
		Abuhajira - Scholars [252 words]	Kiwi	Nov 10, 2007 18:33
		Response to Mr Kiwi [981 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 12, 2007 11:17
		Divine [130 words]	NZ Kiwi	Nov 13, 2007 21:46
		Response to "Divine" [819 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 19, 2007 01:34
		Kia Ora means good day in the Maori language [172 words]	Kiwi	Nov 21, 2007 02:34
		Response to Kia Ora... [1079 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 22, 2007 03:22
	1	Kia Ora Abuhajira [427 words]	Kiwi	Nov 23, 2007 04:26
		Final Reply to this tit for tat... [307 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 24, 2007 02:25
		Kia ora, Kiwi! [19 words]	Bystander	Dec 21, 2007 15:29
		Thank you, Bystander [53 words]	Kiwi	Dec 28, 2007 20:30
		complement to Abuhajira [53 words]	Aisha	Mar 12, 2008 18:55
		Subhan Allah... [84 words]	Zaki	Apr 4, 2008 09:36
		Moroccans... [43 words]	Abuhajira	Apr 6, 2008 04:37
	1	Zaki, my dear [326 words]	Kiwi	Apr 7, 2008 21:37
		To Kiwi dearest [42 words]	BA	May 19, 2008 12:10
	1	BA Darling [143 words]	Kiwi	May 19, 2008 19:54
		Kiwi dearest [128 words]	BA	May 29, 2008 15:42
		In the bible you will find terrors [88 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 18:26
	3	The fall of Islam [295 words]	Stu	Dec 1, 2008 16:53
	2	The Fall of ... [66 words]	Kamel	May 17, 2009 18:33
	4	peaceful religion....yeah right [245 words]	Stu	May 18, 2009 23:46
		Supression [72 words]	Stifler	Dec 31, 2009 08:54
	2	can you please tell that to the extremists? [66 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 08:48
		to SILVER: uncovered doesn't mean inexist [106 words]	argun	Aug 5, 2010 08:55
	3	THE DANGER OF RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY [237 words]	Lyle Sharky	Oct 1, 2010 04:58

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Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam?

by Daniel Pipes
Jan 24, 2003
updated Sep 13, 2022

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In 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.

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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.

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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 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.​

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 20^th century, our nations stood together to ensure that fascism did not prevail in Europe. In the second half of the 20^th 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 21^st 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 30^th 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."

1. Writing from Konya, Turkey, about Prince Charles' visit there to the shrine of Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi during the 800^th 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."
2. 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 Diana

held 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 8^th century." [Should be 7^th. 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."

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		Faith. [76 words]	AlbertE.	Sep 21, 2022 17:04
	1	The most devout Christian that I have ever known about is king Charles the III. [584 words]	Prashant	Sep 12, 2022 00:41
		The most devout Christian... [22 words]	Aisha Siddiqui	Sep 13, 2022 14:28
		Please explain how [77 words]	Prashant	Sep 13, 2022 21:48
		Religious Perceptions of Superiority of Belief are Lost Causes in Modern Examination of Spirituality [430 words]	M Tovey	Sep 14, 2022 14:45
	1	Decision God save the King, but which God? [81 words]	Harvey	Sep 11, 2022 21:50
		Saving the King - or Saving the Country - Heart of the Regent Not Determined by Rituals - But Duty Should Reign Supreme [261 words]	M Tovey	Sep 12, 2022 13:48
		What are you expecting?. Honestly! [280 words]	Harvey	Sep 12, 2022 18:43
		Expectation that Salvation the Only Reality that Has a Chance of Survival [298 words]	M Tovey	Sep 12, 2022 19:43
		Speaking as a Christian [142 words]	Harvey	Sep 13, 2022 18:53
		Now King Charles it remains to be seen now this plays out [14 words]	Beverly McCaffrey	Sep 10, 2022 17:43
		Bonnie Prince Charles [68 words]	Charles Ford	Sep 9, 2022 15:58
	1	When unprincipled living becomes a habit [295 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Prashant	Jun 27, 2022 15:02
	1	Prashant's Moralizing over King Charles III [438 words]	Robert	Sep 26, 2022 11:44
	1	If Charles-III accepted the suitcase full of cash from Qatar then... [72 words]	Prashant	Sep 27, 2022 23:41
	1	The Royal Family of the United Kingdom [207 words]	Robert	Sep 28, 2022 12:39
		Regal Widowhood - Victoria Then; Elizabeth II Now [146 words]	M Tovey	Apr 22, 2021 17:51
		Endangerng the Legacy of the Crown - Tarnished Reputation Notwithstanding - 3 Million Seems Paltry [209 words]	M Tovey	Jun 28, 2022 10:19
		All Speculations Aside - Reality of British Monarchy Now in Focus as Next In Line Is To Be Revealed [80 words]	M Tovey	Sep 8, 2022 13:55
		Twirling [39 words]	jo	Sep 7, 2020 17:02
	2	Prince Charles celebrating the sword [79 words]	jo	Sep 7, 2020 16:58
	1	The first monarch to think about religion since Henry VIII [287 words]	Luqman	Jan 5, 2020 05:43
	8	Whom you are trying to fool, Mr Laqman? [87 words]	Prashant	Jan 8, 2020 07:02
		the conspiracy is wrong [249 words]	1947	Dec 25, 2019 17:45
		Prince Charles' statements regarding Islam [93 words]	Prashant	Oct 20, 2018 11:10
	1	An Islamic Constantine? [16 words]	Reynald de Chatillon	Mar 29, 2018 00:47
		Charlie [8 words]	Lynny	Mar 28, 2018 10:08
	1	Please Sir, please educate Charles on Islam. [12 words]	Kim	Mar 26, 2018 19:17
	1	King Charles [24 words]	AlbertE.	Mar 23, 2018 12:56
		Charles may not be Muslim, but he sure likes carrying the Islamists' water... [40 words]	Leslie	Nov 19, 2017 07:33
	1	Charlie Windsor's religion [72 words]	Kepha	Nov 14, 2017 20:43
		Prince Charles - Follow Islam to save the World - Thank You Brother [14 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Daniela Todescu	Apr 2, 2017 15:41
		Nowhere in this video Prince Charles suggested that anyone should follow Islam [50 words]	Prashant	Apr 4, 2017 01:05
		The missing names: Martin Lings and... [11 words]	Flavio	Mar 23, 2017 19:29
	1	Royal Dhimmitude [72 words]	Frank Hepple	Dec 28, 2016 02:45
	5	Does Amercia already have a Muslim Government?? [564 words]	Martin Lauchenauer	May 6, 2016 02:13
		Quote by Obama taken out of context [155 words]	Esther Sie	Nov 12, 2016 15:24
		Prince Charles & islam [19 words]	ashton alkin	Jun 19, 2015 17:01
		not so [182 words]	rw	Feb 15, 2015 18:05
	1	The fool has found a new hobby [78 words]	Doramin	Feb 14, 2015 10:43
		they already serve the same god [140 words]	chip griffin	Jan 8, 2015 21:24
	1	Raising awareness of Islam [121 words]	Michael S	Jan 8, 2015 17:59
		Good for HRH--finally [55 words]	Kepha Hor	Dec 21, 2014 20:38
	1	Christians in the Middle East [214 words]	dhimmi no more	Dec 21, 2014 11:46
		Both William and Charles are Muslim [32 words]	Little Bright Feather	Nov 5, 2014 01:23
	3	Charles is not a muslim [140 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	rw	Jun 20, 2014 01:16
		Pish. The Royal Family DEFINES English Christianity, whatever they believe [80 words]	Michael S	Feb 11, 2015 10:04
		of monarchs and primates [422 words]	rw	Feb 14, 2018 05:29
		PRINCE CHARLES OF ENGLAND [52 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Ameer Labeeb Hassan	May 18, 2014 00:56
		What's with the bandolier? [22 words]	Keith	Feb 20, 2014 07:39
	4	Justin Trudeau is clueless [73 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 2, 2013 06:27
		Why Prince Charles became interested in Islam? [13 words]	Michael	Apr 4, 2013 15:10
	1	The Religion of Charlie Windsor [132 words]	Kepha Hor	Mar 18, 2013 20:44
	15	Prince Charles and islam and Muslims! [347 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 23, 2013 17:37
		Here's what I'm talking about [50 words]	Kepha Hor	Mar 25, 2013 05:53
	7	Muslims and their Mullahs! [35 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 27, 2013 07:06
	4	To Dhimmi no More [133 words]	Kepha Hor	Dec 24, 2013 18:46
	6	Is 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 more	Dec 26, 2013 12:47
	1	All answers are in Pg99 of Al Mawrid Pg426 of Hans Wher [80 words]	Amin Riaz	May 23, 2014 12:04
	5	Is Prince Charles another wannabe Arab? [101 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 16, 2013 16:29
		For Dhimmi No More [278 words]	Kepha Hor	Apr 7, 2017 19:58
		Don't read Yusuf Ali's translation He had no shame [183 words]	dhimmi no more	Apr 9, 2017 11:26
	3	Islam [26 words]	Weight Conversion	Jul 2, 2011 01:39
		Prince Charles is just being him ... servant of God [61 words]	Norodin Lucman	Nov 30, 2010 23:32
	1	why mocking at prince? [53 words]	muhammad	Jun 30, 2010 08:52
	3	Prince Charles is Muslim [26 words]	Rifa'i Kurdi	Jun 25, 2010 16:02
		Possible reason for connecting Islam and environmentalism [339 words]	Vijay	Jun 16, 2010 15:28
		Anything goes [57 words]	Vijay	Jun 12, 2010 18:52
	5	Prince Charles what a mug. [272 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 05:47
	5	Prince of Ignorance [67 words]	Carole	Jun 11, 2010 17:58
	1	Maybe... [9 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 21:43
	5	'DECEIT' HAS NO CLASS BOUNDARIES. [168 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 23:29
	1	:-| [6 words]	Adam	Jun 15, 2010 08:03
	5	islam [82 words]	sara (3)	Aug 27, 2010 00:31
	3	The U.K. is doomed ! [33 words]	Phil Greend	Mar 16, 2013 16:12
		Choose this Day. [165 words]	Gordon Weare	Mar 19, 2013 01:34
	2	Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam? [214 words]	Gaye	Jul 10, 2014 08:15
	11	I 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 Greend	Jun 10, 2010 22:27
	2	Gosh, What A Dweeb [48 words]	Duke of Oil	Jun 10, 2010 15:11
	14	If Islam is so peaceful... [342 words]	Silver	Jun 10, 2010 14:00
		Objectivity please... [82 words]	Cem Celebi	Jun 11, 2010 08:35
	3	Behold! donot judge a religion by looking at the followers. [212 words]	karim	Aug 12, 2010 07:30
	3	none is so blind as one who won't see [67 words]	car313	Oct 22, 2011 16:03
	1	Never judge Islam by observing Muslims. Why? [154 words]	Josh	Oct 23, 2011 22:22
	1	Please re-read my post Josh! [28 words]	car313	Oct 25, 2011 00:36
		Objectivity? [95 words]	coolman	Dec 21, 2011 16:34
	2	Behold! Ignore the facts and read the koran instead (not the valid part) [279 words]	truthman	Jun 19, 2012 00:11
		The purpose is not what you may believe [84 words]	Sounding the 7th trumpet	Apr 3, 2010 16:04
	1	NO RELIGION SAYS TO KILL ONLY MEN WHO ARE BRAIN WASHED AND KILL FOR THERE OWN BENEFITS [194 words]	michael temel	Feb 7, 2010 19:20
	1	Smell the Islamic Flowers [92 words]	Peter	May 14, 2013 08:31
		converts to Islam [43 words]	b soetoro	Jan 19, 2010 02:31
		Charles and Secular Britain [57 words]	gsw	Dec 18, 2009 02:22
	5	WESTERN SOCIETY IN DENIAL. [328 words]	gordon weare	Aug 27, 2010 18:40
		find the common ground [272 words]	M.amriotti	Apr 28, 2009 06:53
		God Says [267 words]	mustafa	May 3, 2009 04:16
		revertion [8 words]	shafeeq	Apr 6, 2009 17:06
		islam is not teroris [13 words]	angga priatna	Feb 3, 2009 22:29
		Charles realised the Truth at last and England would be blessed [134 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 22:25
	2	Prince Charles and the Jackson contact with Islam [290 words]	Isaac	Jul 3, 2009 13:42
		Islam [8 words]	Saqib	Jan 16, 2009 10:18
		Islam a NO NO [52 words]	Angel	Nov 11, 2008 20:53
		Islam a No No [17 words]	Watcher	Nov 17, 2008 06:03
		to angel and watcher [68 words]	U.S	Nov 18, 2008 12:38
		king of islam [60 words]	mahmoud rababah. jordan	Feb 5, 2009 17:24
	2	ISLAM IS NOT ABRAHAMIC FAITH [31 words]	citizen	Sep 5, 2008 10:24
		Islam IS the religion of Abraham [146 words]	Muslimah	Nov 7, 2008 16:52
	1	muslimah [295 words]	btilly`	Nov 8, 2008 09:51
		Ah, ah, ah.... [45 words]	Ynna tchkah	Nov 8, 2008 11:34
	2	Islam is the religion of Mohammad [46 words]	Lynn	Nov 9, 2008 16:18
		Prediction of the displacement of the Jewish race [195 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 18:52
		you are mess up btilly [191 words]	Texas	Nov 14, 2008 14:20
	1	And to you a warning from Jesus. [89 words]	Lynn	Nov 19, 2008 10:04
	28	Jesus was sent to the house of Israel ony not to the whole world [259 words]	esan	Dec 7, 2008 14:33
		Keep reading. [86 words]	Lynn	Dec 8, 2008 10:22
	3	How can you be so sure Abraham was a muslim? [145 words]	Zen	Dec 14, 2008 22:22
	1	Was Allah a Pre-Islamic pagan deity? response to citizen [373 words]	Anne A.	Dec 19, 2008 12:12
		Yes there are warning signs from Jesus--response to Lynn [211 words]	Anne A.	Dec 19, 2008 12:37
	1	What a joke.... [86 words]	Jaime	Dec 27, 2008 16:44
		bTILLY [219 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 22:20
		texas [103 words]	btilly	Jan 30, 2009 10:35
		to bittly [70 words]	texas	Jan 31, 2009 00:29
		God of Abraham... [161 words]	RMS Rahman	Feb 5, 2009 13:14
		islam does not have a name [60 words]	lisa	Jan 29, 2010 10:19
		The Bible is correct [55 words]	Andy	Sep 12, 2011 05:16
	2	Jesus Christ did not die.... [139 words]	Andy Welikala	Feb 17, 2014 13:01
		Jesus did help non Hebrews [21 words]	Candice	Jul 28, 2014 22:20
		I Think You May Be Right [134 words]	John Higgins	Aug 9, 2016 02:43
	1	Jesus not sent only to Israel Matthew 15:24 [156 words]	kevin	Feb 21, 2017 22:36
		To esan [81 words]	Kepha Hor	Apr 7, 2017 20:06
	1	Jesus was sent to the house of Israel ony not to the whole world [176 words]	Alan	Aug 5, 2017 15:55
		A Prophetic Word unto You who are the GENTILE NATIONS of the WORLD, called MANKIND, and unto the JEWS, I AM MESSIAH [7516 words]	Prophetess Deborah	Apr 15, 2018 23:59
		Jesus was sent for the lost house of Israel only. [248 words]	Andrew John	Apr 28, 2018 10:35
		painfully obvious truth [206 words]	JJ	Jan 28, 2019 00:00
		Why 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 more	Jan 28, 2019 16:06
		wrong [77 words]	shaikh rahman	Aug 7, 2008 19:43
		Is the prince a believer in the truth? [188 words]	isaac	Apr 30, 2008 08:44
		Really? Really? [53 words]	Silver	Jun 10, 2010 19:31
	2	what TRUTH would that be?? [19 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 10:43
		Right to the throne [19 words]	Shaka	Apr 28, 2008 22:26
		abdication? [17 words]	2008	Sep 5, 2008 01:39
	4	Prince Charles a muslim ? [139 words]	Phil Greend	May 27, 2007 09:17
		Freedom of speech [45 words]	Cape' Dey	Jan 16, 2008 23:20
		Non-muslims often do the biggest favor to Islam [303 words]	Som Gupta	Mar 15, 2008 18:48
	3	Re: Non-muslims often do the biggest favor to Islam [271 words]	Shams	Mar 25, 2008 02:35
	1	So what if He is muslim? [62 words]	Waqar Qazi	Jul 17, 2011 07:34
		A New British Age of Religion? [139 words]	M Tovey	Apr 12, 2021 19:11
		islam always respects other religions [151 words]	fahadhamzaph@hotmail.com	Apr 21, 2007 01:10
		To Fahad sure it is but... [139 words]	Simon	Jul 16, 2007 22:58
		To Fahad wrong again.... [64 words]	Simon	Jul 16, 2007 23:03
		Must be true? [231 words]	veronica	Sep 1, 2007 14:11
	1	"The original Bible" in Vatican? [151 words]	Moshe	Sep 2, 2007 16:24
	1	May Allah forgive you! [273 words]	Ibrahim Fares	Nov 3, 2007 23:02
	1	Gem time from our dear Fahad [607 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 15, 2008 09:16
		Our dear Ibrahim and the word islam [75 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 15, 2008 09:28
	1	dhimmi no more.... a poor foolish [85 words]	fahad	Mar 17, 2008 13:38
		which version of the Bible [227 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 19:12
	2	"The original Bible" in Vatican? Or is this the original Bible at hand [205 words]	Mustafa	Dec 19, 2008 18:05
		Ibrahim Fares-Reply [392 words]	Ifrahim	Dec 26, 2008 21:44
		islam and science [15 words]	MUHAMMAD JAWAD QAMAR	Jan 2, 2009 00:48
		Moshe [79 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 17:09
	2	Your miss understanding of Islam has crippled your visions [1154 words]	A follower of the true truth	Jan 4, 2010 04:47
		few manuscript [14 words]	tikyo	Jun 3, 2010 02:29
		why [22 words]	x muslim	Jun 16, 2010 22:23
	2	The plight of the cuckolds [139 words]	car313	Oct 22, 2011 15:57
		Separation [129 words]	sever2morrow	Apr 20, 2007 11:47
		Its his life [56 words]	miles	Apr 14, 2007 21:24
		Miles off... [121 words]	sever2morrow	Apr 20, 2007 11:55
		A Throne, A Throne, my very Faith for a Throne [214 words]	M.D. Anthony	Mar 2, 2007 00:16
		PLEASE, MD Anthony....Brush up on your History and get the Facts right ! [122 words]	Bigbazza Oz	May 19, 2007 23:06
	1	Funny to relate the bombers to Islam [305 words]	Someone	Dec 5, 2006 22:57
	2	Not a valid comparison [240 words]	Terry	Apr 17, 2007 18:01
	1	So few Christians... [18 words]	donvan	Jul 20, 2007 14:06
		Thank you note [30 words]	nk	May 30, 2008 11:02
		So few Christians--Donvan [246 words]	Debbie	Jul 30, 2008 17:56
		Prince Charles and Islam [85 words]	Mrs. Marlene Fleming	Nov 29, 2006 14:56
	2	Charles the Jester [174 words]	dfwhite	Nov 10, 2006 15:08
		Pasha Charles? Islamic prayer room inside walls of Windor castle' for Muslimah employee' approved by Queen [351 words]	Ben van de Polder	Nov 6, 2006 09:38
		Charles and Orthodoxy [182 words]	ROb	Oct 17, 2006 10:00
		It's just a phase! [286 words]	Ahmad Nabi	May 24, 2006 01:48
		Prince Charles is a great man [69 words]	Hend	Jun 1, 2007 08:05
		Fighting islam up front? [35 words]	L. Drummond	Jul 22, 2007 08:56
	2	Prince Charles & Islam [44 words]	David Snyder	May 21, 2006 17:06
	2	An Opportunity Missed [43 words]	Bill Corr	Apr 8, 2006 06:21
	2	Bonnie Prince Charlie: Keeper of the Faith? [235 words]	Stella (USA)	Apr 3, 2006 10:05
	2	Anglicans, Academics and Appeasers [168 words]	Nabil Shawarma	Nov 7, 2006 06:41
		Charles just does not care [181 words]	Terry	Apr 17, 2007 17:42
	1	poor STELLA [82 words]	nidal	Oct 9, 2007 10:34
	1	WHATS WRONG WITH HIM BEING MUSLIM? [77 words]	frank	Mar 31, 2006 11:05
	2	He's a Fool [99 words]	Chris Wills	Apr 1, 2006 09:59
		Still a religion [99 words]	khader`	Apr 19, 2006 10:08
		problem is... [15 words]	Craig	Nov 10, 2006 20:23
		YOU CANNOT BE BOTH [217 words]	FREE DEBATER	Oct 10, 2010 06:38
		comment [24 words]	Stu	Mar 27, 2006 20:57
	1	King ali charles [58 words]	donvan	Feb 28, 2006 10:02
		British sickness [120 words]	Arun	Feb 26, 2006 13:57
		He is not alone! [85 words]	Antonio	Jun 25, 2007 18:21
		He is not alone..... [93 words]	Jamila Al Aridh Baghdadi	May 13, 2010 22:59
	1	THE PRINCES NEW CLOTHES - [217 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 06:13
		I Dissagree [33 words]	Jack robbinson	Feb 25, 2006 05:55
		The Horse's Mouth [23 words]	Frasnk Mayo	Feb 21, 2006 15:50
	1	why dont you look on the princes side of the story [143 words]	yasmin	Feb 18, 2006 14:32
	2	The last Queen [51 words]	M.K.Korpela, Finland	Feb 17, 2006 07:58
	2	Prince Charles -Royal looney [97 words]	Mike Randall	Feb 10, 2006 08:56
		Islam is for All Humanity [78 words]	Raiza K	Jan 25, 2008 13:41
	1	Islam is for all Humanity [101 words]	Deborah	Jul 3, 2008 22:57
	1	To deborah [179 words]	Raiza k	Jul 15, 2008 16:42
		Lets understand each other religion before making comments [251 words]	esan	Dec 7, 2008 08:23
	2	Yes, let's understand and respect each others religions before we make comments-response to esan [298 words]	Debbie	Dec 8, 2008 09:56
	3	Lets try and come to common terms between us and you [456 words]	esan	Dec 18, 2008 17:25
		lets try and find common terms between us and you- response to esan [426 words]	Debbie	Dec 18, 2008 23:29
		esau-muslims dont accept moses or jesus-they were Jews, not muhammad [169 words]	btilly`	Dec 19, 2008 09:58
		islam [44 words]	mahmoud rababah. jordan	Feb 5, 2009 17:38
		muslims don't accept Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus [40 words]	MSK	Aug 11, 2011 15:04
		Jesus only came to save the Israelites [48 words]	Gilberto Preciado	Nov 16, 2019 16:41
	2	The Prince = Hypocrite [185 words]	Joe (USA)	Feb 9, 2006 02:07
		so where is the pain [22 words]	Harrak	Feb 9, 2006 18:54
		Interesting... [79 words]	Chris Sorensen	Feb 9, 2006 23:35
		a bit exagerating Chris [115 words]	Harrak	Feb 10, 2006 23:17
	1	You have a short memory! [36 words]	Roncesvalles	Feb 12, 2006 15:43
	2	Ill-advised big mouth! [71 words]	Roncesvalles	Feb 12, 2006 15:51
	2	By the way... [160 words]	John	Feb 22, 2006 09:20
		Harrak [110 words]	Daisy	Feb 22, 2006 10:22
		It is really ignorance the problem,illiteracy of islam [328 words]	maha zimaity	May 8, 2006 15:44
		Prince Saud, Jewish? [79 words]	joe kaffir	Nov 6, 2006 16:58
		Islam and christianity [292 words]	kotsami	Mar 14, 2007 04:07
		How about?? [48 words]	John R. Linard	Jun 16, 2007 20:12
		what's different to be a moslem? [181 words]	jackey	Jul 12, 2007 21:40
		question to who? [85 words]	jackey	Jul 15, 2007 05:00
	2	To Jackey. [191 words]	Ynnatchkah	Jul 15, 2007 19:09
		the truth about sulawesi [137 words]	Indonesian	Jul 16, 2007 05:07
	2	Prince Charles has gone looney [39 words]	T.J.	Jul 20, 2007 02:12
	2	Whats different about a Moslem.... [169 words]	donvan	Jul 20, 2007 14:00
	5	Truth about Sulawesi [97 words]	John R. Linard	Jul 21, 2007 15:14
		[89 words]	Jackey	Jul 21, 2007 23:38
		do we actually know everything about Islam? [104 words]	Jackey	Jul 21, 2007 23:49
	1	Thank you .. [165 words]	donvan	Jul 23, 2007 08:34
		Which Koran? [262 words]	jackey	Jul 23, 2007 21:03
	1	here's the thing... [173 words]	donvan	Jul 24, 2007 15:24
		wrong thought [202 words]	jackey	Jul 24, 2007 20:58
		Koran 'instructed' to kill non-moslem or not aren't we? [62 words]	Abuhajira	Sep 21, 2007 23:47
		Destruction in whose name and of whose? [93 words]	Abuhajira	Sep 21, 2007 23:54
	1	Abuhajira - Use the Quran correctly! [275 words]	New Zealand Kiwi	Nov 9, 2007 02:49
		NewZealand Kiwi [517 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 9, 2007 18:31
		Abuhajira - Scholars [252 words]	Kiwi	Nov 10, 2007 18:33
		Response to Mr Kiwi [981 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 12, 2007 11:17
		Divine [130 words]	NZ Kiwi	Nov 13, 2007 21:46
		Response to "Divine" [819 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 19, 2007 01:34
		Kia Ora means good day in the Maori language [172 words]	Kiwi	Nov 21, 2007 02:34
		Response to Kia Ora... [1079 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 22, 2007 03:22
	1	Kia Ora Abuhajira [427 words]	Kiwi	Nov 23, 2007 04:26
		Final Reply to this tit for tat... [307 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 24, 2007 02:25
		Kia ora, Kiwi! [19 words]	Bystander	Dec 21, 2007 15:29
		Thank you, Bystander [53 words]	Kiwi	Dec 28, 2007 20:30
		complement to Abuhajira [53 words]	Aisha	Mar 12, 2008 18:55
		Subhan Allah... [84 words]	Zaki	Apr 4, 2008 09:36
		Moroccans... [43 words]	Abuhajira	Apr 6, 2008 04:37
	1	Zaki, my dear [326 words]	Kiwi	Apr 7, 2008 21:37
		To Kiwi dearest [42 words]	BA	May 19, 2008 12:10
	1	BA Darling [143 words]	Kiwi	May 19, 2008 19:54
		Kiwi dearest [128 words]	BA	May 29, 2008 15:42
		In the bible you will find terrors [88 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 18:26
	3	The fall of Islam [295 words]	Stu	Dec 1, 2008 16:53
	2	The Fall of ... [66 words]	Kamel	May 17, 2009 18:33
	4	peaceful religion....yeah right [245 words]	Stu	May 18, 2009 23:46
		Supression [72 words]	Stifler	Dec 31, 2009 08:54
	2	can you please tell that to the extremists? [66 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 08:48
		to SILVER: uncovered doesn't mean inexist [106 words]	argun	Aug 5, 2010 08:55
	3	THE DANGER OF RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY [237 words]	Lyle Sharky	Oct 1, 2010 04:58

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Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam?

by Daniel Pipes
Jan 24, 2003
updated Sep 13, 2022

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In 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.

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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.

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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 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.​

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 20^th century, our nations stood together to ensure that fascism did not prevail in Europe. In the second half of the 20^th 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 21^st 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 30^th 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."

1. Writing from Konya, Turkey, about Prince Charles' visit there to the shrine of Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi during the 800^th 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."
2. 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 Diana

held 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 8^th century." [Should be 7^th. 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."

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		Faith. [76 words]	AlbertE.	Sep 21, 2022 17:04
	1	The most devout Christian that I have ever known about is king Charles the III. [584 words]	Prashant	Sep 12, 2022 00:41
		The most devout Christian... [22 words]	Aisha Siddiqui	Sep 13, 2022 14:28
		Please explain how [77 words]	Prashant	Sep 13, 2022 21:48
		Religious Perceptions of Superiority of Belief are Lost Causes in Modern Examination of Spirituality [430 words]	M Tovey	Sep 14, 2022 14:45
	1	Decision God save the King, but which God? [81 words]	Harvey	Sep 11, 2022 21:50
		Saving the King - or Saving the Country - Heart of the Regent Not Determined by Rituals - But Duty Should Reign Supreme [261 words]	M Tovey	Sep 12, 2022 13:48
		What are you expecting?. Honestly! [280 words]	Harvey	Sep 12, 2022 18:43
		Expectation that Salvation the Only Reality that Has a Chance of Survival [298 words]	M Tovey	Sep 12, 2022 19:43
		Speaking as a Christian [142 words]	Harvey	Sep 13, 2022 18:53
		Now King Charles it remains to be seen now this plays out [14 words]	Beverly McCaffrey	Sep 10, 2022 17:43
		Bonnie Prince Charles [68 words]	Charles Ford	Sep 9, 2022 15:58
	1	When unprincipled living becomes a habit [295 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Prashant	Jun 27, 2022 15:02
	1	Prashant's Moralizing over King Charles III [438 words]	Robert	Sep 26, 2022 11:44
	1	If Charles-III accepted the suitcase full of cash from Qatar then... [72 words]	Prashant	Sep 27, 2022 23:41
	1	The Royal Family of the United Kingdom [207 words]	Robert	Sep 28, 2022 12:39
		Regal Widowhood - Victoria Then; Elizabeth II Now [146 words]	M Tovey	Apr 22, 2021 17:51
		Endangerng the Legacy of the Crown - Tarnished Reputation Notwithstanding - 3 Million Seems Paltry [209 words]	M Tovey	Jun 28, 2022 10:19
		All Speculations Aside - Reality of British Monarchy Now in Focus as Next In Line Is To Be Revealed [80 words]	M Tovey	Sep 8, 2022 13:55
		Twirling [39 words]	jo	Sep 7, 2020 17:02
	2	Prince Charles celebrating the sword [79 words]	jo	Sep 7, 2020 16:58
	1	The first monarch to think about religion since Henry VIII [287 words]	Luqman	Jan 5, 2020 05:43
	8	Whom you are trying to fool, Mr Laqman? [87 words]	Prashant	Jan 8, 2020 07:02
		the conspiracy is wrong [249 words]	1947	Dec 25, 2019 17:45
		Prince Charles' statements regarding Islam [93 words]	Prashant	Oct 20, 2018 11:10
	1	An Islamic Constantine? [16 words]	Reynald de Chatillon	Mar 29, 2018 00:47
		Charlie [8 words]	Lynny	Mar 28, 2018 10:08
	1	Please Sir, please educate Charles on Islam. [12 words]	Kim	Mar 26, 2018 19:17
	1	King Charles [24 words]	AlbertE.	Mar 23, 2018 12:56
		Charles may not be Muslim, but he sure likes carrying the Islamists' water... [40 words]	Leslie	Nov 19, 2017 07:33
	1	Charlie Windsor's religion [72 words]	Kepha	Nov 14, 2017 20:43
		Prince Charles - Follow Islam to save the World - Thank You Brother [14 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Daniela Todescu	Apr 2, 2017 15:41
		Nowhere in this video Prince Charles suggested that anyone should follow Islam [50 words]	Prashant	Apr 4, 2017 01:05
		The missing names: Martin Lings and... [11 words]	Flavio	Mar 23, 2017 19:29
	1	Royal Dhimmitude [72 words]	Frank Hepple	Dec 28, 2016 02:45
	5	Does Amercia already have a Muslim Government?? [564 words]	Martin Lauchenauer	May 6, 2016 02:13
		Quote by Obama taken out of context [155 words]	Esther Sie	Nov 12, 2016 15:24
		Prince Charles & islam [19 words]	ashton alkin	Jun 19, 2015 17:01
		not so [182 words]	rw	Feb 15, 2015 18:05
	1	The fool has found a new hobby [78 words]	Doramin	Feb 14, 2015 10:43
		they already serve the same god [140 words]	chip griffin	Jan 8, 2015 21:24
	1	Raising awareness of Islam [121 words]	Michael S	Jan 8, 2015 17:59
		Good for HRH--finally [55 words]	Kepha Hor	Dec 21, 2014 20:38
	1	Christians in the Middle East [214 words]	dhimmi no more	Dec 21, 2014 11:46
		Both William and Charles are Muslim [32 words]	Little Bright Feather	Nov 5, 2014 01:23
	3	Charles is not a muslim [140 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	rw	Jun 20, 2014 01:16
		Pish. The Royal Family DEFINES English Christianity, whatever they believe [80 words]	Michael S	Feb 11, 2015 10:04
		of monarchs and primates [422 words]	rw	Feb 14, 2018 05:29
		PRINCE CHARLES OF ENGLAND [52 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Ameer Labeeb Hassan	May 18, 2014 00:56
		What's with the bandolier? [22 words]	Keith	Feb 20, 2014 07:39
	4	Justin Trudeau is clueless [73 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 2, 2013 06:27
		Why Prince Charles became interested in Islam? [13 words]	Michael	Apr 4, 2013 15:10
	1	The Religion of Charlie Windsor [132 words]	Kepha Hor	Mar 18, 2013 20:44
	15	Prince Charles and islam and Muslims! [347 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 23, 2013 17:37
		Here's what I'm talking about [50 words]	Kepha Hor	Mar 25, 2013 05:53
	7	Muslims and their Mullahs! [35 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 27, 2013 07:06
	4	To Dhimmi no More [133 words]	Kepha Hor	Dec 24, 2013 18:46
	6	Is 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 more	Dec 26, 2013 12:47
	1	All answers are in Pg99 of Al Mawrid Pg426 of Hans Wher [80 words]	Amin Riaz	May 23, 2014 12:04
	5	Is Prince Charles another wannabe Arab? [101 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 16, 2013 16:29
		For Dhimmi No More [278 words]	Kepha Hor	Apr 7, 2017 19:58
		Don't read Yusuf Ali's translation He had no shame [183 words]	dhimmi no more	Apr 9, 2017 11:26
	3	Islam [26 words]	Weight Conversion	Jul 2, 2011 01:39
		Prince Charles is just being him ... servant of God [61 words]	Norodin Lucman	Nov 30, 2010 23:32
	1	why mocking at prince? [53 words]	muhammad	Jun 30, 2010 08:52
	3	Prince Charles is Muslim [26 words]	Rifa'i Kurdi	Jun 25, 2010 16:02
		Possible reason for connecting Islam and environmentalism [339 words]	Vijay	Jun 16, 2010 15:28
		Anything goes [57 words]	Vijay	Jun 12, 2010 18:52
	5	Prince Charles what a mug. [272 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 05:47
	5	Prince of Ignorance [67 words]	Carole	Jun 11, 2010 17:58
	1	Maybe... [9 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 21:43
	5	'DECEIT' HAS NO CLASS BOUNDARIES. [168 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 23:29
	1	:-| [6 words]	Adam	Jun 15, 2010 08:03
	5	islam [82 words]	sara (3)	Aug 27, 2010 00:31
	3	The U.K. is doomed ! [33 words]	Phil Greend	Mar 16, 2013 16:12
		Choose this Day. [165 words]	Gordon Weare	Mar 19, 2013 01:34
	2	Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam? [214 words]	Gaye	Jul 10, 2014 08:15
	11	I 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 Greend	Jun 10, 2010 22:27
	2	Gosh, What A Dweeb [48 words]	Duke of Oil	Jun 10, 2010 15:11
	14	If Islam is so peaceful... [342 words]	Silver	Jun 10, 2010 14:00
		Objectivity please... [82 words]	Cem Celebi	Jun 11, 2010 08:35
	3	Behold! donot judge a religion by looking at the followers. [212 words]	karim	Aug 12, 2010 07:30
	3	none is so blind as one who won't see [67 words]	car313	Oct 22, 2011 16:03
	1	Never judge Islam by observing Muslims. Why? [154 words]	Josh	Oct 23, 2011 22:22
	1	Please re-read my post Josh! [28 words]	car313	Oct 25, 2011 00:36
		Objectivity? [95 words]	coolman	Dec 21, 2011 16:34
	2	Behold! Ignore the facts and read the koran instead (not the valid part) [279 words]	truthman	Jun 19, 2012 00:11
		The purpose is not what you may believe [84 words]	Sounding the 7th trumpet	Apr 3, 2010 16:04
	1	NO RELIGION SAYS TO KILL ONLY MEN WHO ARE BRAIN WASHED AND KILL FOR THERE OWN BENEFITS [194 words]	michael temel	Feb 7, 2010 19:20
	1	Smell the Islamic Flowers [92 words]	Peter	May 14, 2013 08:31
		converts to Islam [43 words]	b soetoro	Jan 19, 2010 02:31
		Charles and Secular Britain [57 words]	gsw	Dec 18, 2009 02:22
	5	WESTERN SOCIETY IN DENIAL. [328 words]	gordon weare	Aug 27, 2010 18:40
		find the common ground [272 words]	M.amriotti	Apr 28, 2009 06:53
		God Says [267 words]	mustafa	May 3, 2009 04:16
		revertion [8 words]	shafeeq	Apr 6, 2009 17:06
		islam is not teroris [13 words]	angga priatna	Feb 3, 2009 22:29
		Charles realised the Truth at last and England would be blessed [134 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 22:25
	2	Prince Charles and the Jackson contact with Islam [290 words]	Isaac	Jul 3, 2009 13:42
		Islam [8 words]	Saqib	Jan 16, 2009 10:18
		Islam a NO NO [52 words]	Angel	Nov 11, 2008 20:53
		Islam a No No [17 words]	Watcher	Nov 17, 2008 06:03
		to angel and watcher [68 words]	U.S	Nov 18, 2008 12:38
		king of islam [60 words]	mahmoud rababah. jordan	Feb 5, 2009 17:24
	2	ISLAM IS NOT ABRAHAMIC FAITH [31 words]	citizen	Sep 5, 2008 10:24
		Islam IS the religion of Abraham [146 words]	Muslimah	Nov 7, 2008 16:52
	1	muslimah [295 words]	btilly`	Nov 8, 2008 09:51
		Ah, ah, ah.... [45 words]	Ynna tchkah	Nov 8, 2008 11:34
	2	Islam is the religion of Mohammad [46 words]	Lynn	Nov 9, 2008 16:18
		Prediction of the displacement of the Jewish race [195 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 18:52
		you are mess up btilly [191 words]	Texas	Nov 14, 2008 14:20
	1	And to you a warning from Jesus. [89 words]	Lynn	Nov 19, 2008 10:04
	28	Jesus was sent to the house of Israel ony not to the whole world [259 words]	esan	Dec 7, 2008 14:33
		Keep reading. [86 words]	Lynn	Dec 8, 2008 10:22
	3	How can you be so sure Abraham was a muslim? [145 words]	Zen	Dec 14, 2008 22:22
	1	Was Allah a Pre-Islamic pagan deity? response to citizen [373 words]	Anne A.	Dec 19, 2008 12:12
		Yes there are warning signs from Jesus--response to Lynn [211 words]	Anne A.	Dec 19, 2008 12:37
	1	What a joke.... [86 words]	Jaime	Dec 27, 2008 16:44
		bTILLY [219 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 22:20
		texas [103 words]	btilly	Jan 30, 2009 10:35
		to bittly [70 words]	texas	Jan 31, 2009 00:29
		God of Abraham... [161 words]	RMS Rahman	Feb 5, 2009 13:14
		islam does not have a name [60 words]	lisa	Jan 29, 2010 10:19
		The Bible is correct [55 words]	Andy	Sep 12, 2011 05:16
	2	Jesus Christ did not die.... [139 words]	Andy Welikala	Feb 17, 2014 13:01
		Jesus did help non Hebrews [21 words]	Candice	Jul 28, 2014 22:20
		I Think You May Be Right [134 words]	John Higgins	Aug 9, 2016 02:43
	1	Jesus not sent only to Israel Matthew 15:24 [156 words]	kevin	Feb 21, 2017 22:36
		To esan [81 words]	Kepha Hor	Apr 7, 2017 20:06
	1	Jesus was sent to the house of Israel ony not to the whole world [176 words]	Alan	Aug 5, 2017 15:55
		A Prophetic Word unto You who are the GENTILE NATIONS of the WORLD, called MANKIND, and unto the JEWS, I AM MESSIAH [7516 words]	Prophetess Deborah	Apr 15, 2018 23:59
		Jesus was sent for the lost house of Israel only. [248 words]	Andrew John	Apr 28, 2018 10:35
		painfully obvious truth [206 words]	JJ	Jan 28, 2019 00:00
		Why 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 more	Jan 28, 2019 16:06
		wrong [77 words]	shaikh rahman	Aug 7, 2008 19:43
		Is the prince a believer in the truth? [188 words]	isaac	Apr 30, 2008 08:44
		Really? Really? [53 words]	Silver	Jun 10, 2010 19:31
	2	what TRUTH would that be?? [19 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 10:43
		Right to the throne [19 words]	Shaka	Apr 28, 2008 22:26
		abdication? [17 words]	2008	Sep 5, 2008 01:39
	4	Prince Charles a muslim ? [139 words]	Phil Greend	May 27, 2007 09:17
		Freedom of speech [45 words]	Cape' Dey	Jan 16, 2008 23:20
		Non-muslims often do the biggest favor to Islam [303 words]	Som Gupta	Mar 15, 2008 18:48
	3	Re: Non-muslims often do the biggest favor to Islam [271 words]	Shams	Mar 25, 2008 02:35
	1	So what if He is muslim? [62 words]	Waqar Qazi	Jul 17, 2011 07:34
		A New British Age of Religion? [139 words]	M Tovey	Apr 12, 2021 19:11
		islam always respects other religions [151 words]	fahadhamzaph@hotmail.com	Apr 21, 2007 01:10
		To Fahad sure it is but... [139 words]	Simon	Jul 16, 2007 22:58
		To Fahad wrong again.... [64 words]	Simon	Jul 16, 2007 23:03
		Must be true? [231 words]	veronica	Sep 1, 2007 14:11
	1	"The original Bible" in Vatican? [151 words]	Moshe	Sep 2, 2007 16:24
	1	May Allah forgive you! [273 words]	Ibrahim Fares	Nov 3, 2007 23:02
	1	Gem time from our dear Fahad [607 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 15, 2008 09:16
		Our dear Ibrahim and the word islam [75 words]	dhimmi no more	Mar 15, 2008 09:28
	1	dhimmi no more.... a poor foolish [85 words]	fahad	Mar 17, 2008 13:38
		which version of the Bible [227 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 19:12
	2	"The original Bible" in Vatican? Or is this the original Bible at hand [205 words]	Mustafa	Dec 19, 2008 18:05
		Ibrahim Fares-Reply [392 words]	Ifrahim	Dec 26, 2008 21:44
		islam and science [15 words]	MUHAMMAD JAWAD QAMAR	Jan 2, 2009 00:48
		Moshe [79 words]	Saara	Jan 18, 2009 17:09
	2	Your miss understanding of Islam has crippled your visions [1154 words]	A follower of the true truth	Jan 4, 2010 04:47
		few manuscript [14 words]	tikyo	Jun 3, 2010 02:29
		why [22 words]	x muslim	Jun 16, 2010 22:23
	2	The plight of the cuckolds [139 words]	car313	Oct 22, 2011 15:57
		Separation [129 words]	sever2morrow	Apr 20, 2007 11:47
		Its his life [56 words]	miles	Apr 14, 2007 21:24
		Miles off... [121 words]	sever2morrow	Apr 20, 2007 11:55
		A Throne, A Throne, my very Faith for a Throne [214 words]	M.D. Anthony	Mar 2, 2007 00:16
		PLEASE, MD Anthony....Brush up on your History and get the Facts right ! [122 words]	Bigbazza Oz	May 19, 2007 23:06
	1	Funny to relate the bombers to Islam [305 words]	Someone	Dec 5, 2006 22:57
	2	Not a valid comparison [240 words]	Terry	Apr 17, 2007 18:01
	1	So few Christians... [18 words]	donvan	Jul 20, 2007 14:06
		Thank you note [30 words]	nk	May 30, 2008 11:02
		So few Christians--Donvan [246 words]	Debbie	Jul 30, 2008 17:56
		Prince Charles and Islam [85 words]	Mrs. Marlene Fleming	Nov 29, 2006 14:56
	2	Charles the Jester [174 words]	dfwhite	Nov 10, 2006 15:08
		Pasha Charles? Islamic prayer room inside walls of Windor castle' for Muslimah employee' approved by Queen [351 words]	Ben van de Polder	Nov 6, 2006 09:38
		Charles and Orthodoxy [182 words]	ROb	Oct 17, 2006 10:00
		It's just a phase! [286 words]	Ahmad Nabi	May 24, 2006 01:48
		Prince Charles is a great man [69 words]	Hend	Jun 1, 2007 08:05
		Fighting islam up front? [35 words]	L. Drummond	Jul 22, 2007 08:56
	2	Prince Charles & Islam [44 words]	David Snyder	May 21, 2006 17:06
	2	An Opportunity Missed [43 words]	Bill Corr	Apr 8, 2006 06:21
	2	Bonnie Prince Charlie: Keeper of the Faith? [235 words]	Stella (USA)	Apr 3, 2006 10:05
	2	Anglicans, Academics and Appeasers [168 words]	Nabil Shawarma	Nov 7, 2006 06:41
		Charles just does not care [181 words]	Terry	Apr 17, 2007 17:42
	1	poor STELLA [82 words]	nidal	Oct 9, 2007 10:34
	1	WHATS WRONG WITH HIM BEING MUSLIM? [77 words]	frank	Mar 31, 2006 11:05
	2	He's a Fool [99 words]	Chris Wills	Apr 1, 2006 09:59
		Still a religion [99 words]	khader`	Apr 19, 2006 10:08
		problem is... [15 words]	Craig	Nov 10, 2006 20:23
		YOU CANNOT BE BOTH [217 words]	FREE DEBATER	Oct 10, 2010 06:38
		comment [24 words]	Stu	Mar 27, 2006 20:57
	1	King ali charles [58 words]	donvan	Feb 28, 2006 10:02
		British sickness [120 words]	Arun	Feb 26, 2006 13:57
		He is not alone! [85 words]	Antonio	Jun 25, 2007 18:21
		He is not alone..... [93 words]	Jamila Al Aridh Baghdadi	May 13, 2010 22:59
	1	THE PRINCES NEW CLOTHES - [217 words]	Gordon Weare	Jun 11, 2010 06:13
		I Dissagree [33 words]	Jack robbinson	Feb 25, 2006 05:55
		The Horse's Mouth [23 words]	Frasnk Mayo	Feb 21, 2006 15:50
	1	why dont you look on the princes side of the story [143 words]	yasmin	Feb 18, 2006 14:32
	2	The last Queen [51 words]	M.K.Korpela, Finland	Feb 17, 2006 07:58
	2	Prince Charles -Royal looney [97 words]	Mike Randall	Feb 10, 2006 08:56
		Islam is for All Humanity [78 words]	Raiza K	Jan 25, 2008 13:41
	1	Islam is for all Humanity [101 words]	Deborah	Jul 3, 2008 22:57
	1	To deborah [179 words]	Raiza k	Jul 15, 2008 16:42
		Lets understand each other religion before making comments [251 words]	esan	Dec 7, 2008 08:23
	2	Yes, let's understand and respect each others religions before we make comments-response to esan [298 words]	Debbie	Dec 8, 2008 09:56
	3	Lets try and come to common terms between us and you [456 words]	esan	Dec 18, 2008 17:25
		lets try and find common terms between us and you- response to esan [426 words]	Debbie	Dec 18, 2008 23:29
		esau-muslims dont accept moses or jesus-they were Jews, not muhammad [169 words]	btilly`	Dec 19, 2008 09:58
		islam [44 words]	mahmoud rababah. jordan	Feb 5, 2009 17:38
		muslims don't accept Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus [40 words]	MSK	Aug 11, 2011 15:04
		Jesus only came to save the Israelites [48 words]	Gilberto Preciado	Nov 16, 2019 16:41
	2	The Prince = Hypocrite [185 words]	Joe (USA)	Feb 9, 2006 02:07
		so where is the pain [22 words]	Harrak	Feb 9, 2006 18:54
		Interesting... [79 words]	Chris Sorensen	Feb 9, 2006 23:35
		a bit exagerating Chris [115 words]	Harrak	Feb 10, 2006 23:17
	1	You have a short memory! [36 words]	Roncesvalles	Feb 12, 2006 15:43
	2	Ill-advised big mouth! [71 words]	Roncesvalles	Feb 12, 2006 15:51
	2	By the way... [160 words]	John	Feb 22, 2006 09:20
		Harrak [110 words]	Daisy	Feb 22, 2006 10:22
		It is really ignorance the problem,illiteracy of islam [328 words]	maha zimaity	May 8, 2006 15:44
		Prince Saud, Jewish? [79 words]	joe kaffir	Nov 6, 2006 16:58
		Islam and christianity [292 words]	kotsami	Mar 14, 2007 04:07
		How about?? [48 words]	John R. Linard	Jun 16, 2007 20:12
		what's different to be a moslem? [181 words]	jackey	Jul 12, 2007 21:40
		question to who? [85 words]	jackey	Jul 15, 2007 05:00
	2	To Jackey. [191 words]	Ynnatchkah	Jul 15, 2007 19:09
		the truth about sulawesi [137 words]	Indonesian	Jul 16, 2007 05:07
	2	Prince Charles has gone looney [39 words]	T.J.	Jul 20, 2007 02:12
	2	Whats different about a Moslem.... [169 words]	donvan	Jul 20, 2007 14:00
	5	Truth about Sulawesi [97 words]	John R. Linard	Jul 21, 2007 15:14
		[89 words]	Jackey	Jul 21, 2007 23:38
		do we actually know everything about Islam? [104 words]	Jackey	Jul 21, 2007 23:49
	1	Thank you .. [165 words]	donvan	Jul 23, 2007 08:34
		Which Koran? [262 words]	jackey	Jul 23, 2007 21:03
	1	here's the thing... [173 words]	donvan	Jul 24, 2007 15:24
		wrong thought [202 words]	jackey	Jul 24, 2007 20:58
		Koran 'instructed' to kill non-moslem or not aren't we? [62 words]	Abuhajira	Sep 21, 2007 23:47
		Destruction in whose name and of whose? [93 words]	Abuhajira	Sep 21, 2007 23:54
	1	Abuhajira - Use the Quran correctly! [275 words]	New Zealand Kiwi	Nov 9, 2007 02:49
		NewZealand Kiwi [517 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 9, 2007 18:31
		Abuhajira - Scholars [252 words]	Kiwi	Nov 10, 2007 18:33
		Response to Mr Kiwi [981 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 12, 2007 11:17
		Divine [130 words]	NZ Kiwi	Nov 13, 2007 21:46
		Response to "Divine" [819 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 19, 2007 01:34
		Kia Ora means good day in the Maori language [172 words]	Kiwi	Nov 21, 2007 02:34
		Response to Kia Ora... [1079 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 22, 2007 03:22
	1	Kia Ora Abuhajira [427 words]	Kiwi	Nov 23, 2007 04:26
		Final Reply to this tit for tat... [307 words]	Abuhajira	Nov 24, 2007 02:25
		Kia ora, Kiwi! [19 words]	Bystander	Dec 21, 2007 15:29
		Thank you, Bystander [53 words]	Kiwi	Dec 28, 2007 20:30
		complement to Abuhajira [53 words]	Aisha	Mar 12, 2008 18:55
		Subhan Allah... [84 words]	Zaki	Apr 4, 2008 09:36
		Moroccans... [43 words]	Abuhajira	Apr 6, 2008 04:37
	1	Zaki, my dear [326 words]	Kiwi	Apr 7, 2008 21:37
		To Kiwi dearest [42 words]	BA	May 19, 2008 12:10
	1	BA Darling [143 words]	Kiwi	May 19, 2008 19:54
		Kiwi dearest [128 words]	BA	May 29, 2008 15:42
		In the bible you will find terrors [88 words]	esan	Nov 13, 2008 18:26
	3	The fall of Islam [295 words]	Stu	Dec 1, 2008 16:53
	2	The Fall of ... [66 words]	Kamel	May 17, 2009 18:33
	4	peaceful religion....yeah right [245 words]	Stu	May 18, 2009 23:46
		Supression [72 words]	Stifler	Dec 31, 2009 08:54
	2	can you please tell that to the extremists? [66 words]	Silver	Jun 11, 2010 08:48
		to SILVER: uncovered doesn't mean inexist [106 words]	argun	Aug 5, 2010 08:55
	3	THE DANGER OF RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY [237 words]	Lyle Sharky	Oct 1, 2010 04:58

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