Al-Azhar-universitetet i Kairo har besluttet at gøre prins Charles til æresdoktor som følge af hans forsonende udtalelser i forbindelse med Muhammedstriden.
Storbritanniens prins Charles indledte mandag et besøg i Egypten med at opfordre folk til at bygge bro mellem Vesten og den muslimske verden. Opfordringen kommer i forlængelse af striden om Jyllands-Postens Muhammedtegninger.
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Dette bringer jo mere ved til de vedvarende rygter om at Prins Charles er konverteret til islam.
“This claim was put forward by no less a personage than the grand mufti of Cyprus: “Did you know that Prince Charles has converted to Islam. Yes, yes. He is a Muslim. I can’t say more. But it happened in Turkey. Oh, yes, he converted all right. When you get home check on how often he travels to Turkey. You’ll find that your future king is a Muslim.”3 “Nonsense,” replied a Buckingham Palace spokesman, denying Charles’s supposed conversion. Lord St. John of Fawsley, a constitutional expert, is no less dubious, commenting that “The Prince of Wales is a loyal member of the Church of England.”4 Some time later, a leak to the press told of Charles’s “desire to play a greater role in the Church of England,” an apparent attempt to reinforce the prince’s Anglican credentials.5
Rumors about the Prince of Wales’s conversion to Islam may well be inaccurate; even so, the fact that spokesmen official and unofficial felt compelled to deny this fact results from persistent speculation about Charles’s religious loyalties that arises out of his statements and actions of recent years. And these, in turn, reflect a larger trend in Western society.”
The Prince of Wales then explained the causes for this distorted understanding:
Our judgement of Islam has been grossly distorted by taking the extremes to the norm. . . . For example, people in this country frequently argue that the Sharia law of the Islamic world is cruel, barbaric and unjust. Our newspapers, above all, love to peddle those unthinking prejudices. The truth is, of course, different and always more complex. My own understanding is that extremes, like the cutting off of hands, are rarely practised. The guiding principle and spirit of Islamic law, taken straight from the Qur’an, should be those of equity and compassion.
Charles suggests that European women may even find something to envy in the situation of their Muslim sisters:
Islamic countries like Turkey, Egypt and Syria gave women the vote as early as Europe did its women-and much earlier than in Switzerland! In those countries women have long enjoyed equal pay, and the opportunity to play a full working role in their societies.
Charles considers Christianity inadequate to the task of spiritual restoration and denigrates science for having caused the West to lose its spiritual moorings. Echoing a common Muslim theme, he declares that “Western civilisation has become increasingly acquisitive and exploitive in defiance of our environmental responsibilities.” Instead, he praises the “Islamic revival” of the 1980s and portrays Islam as Britain’s salvation.
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“Charles has also indicated he would like as future king to see a new approach to religion, styling himself “Defender of Faiths” rather than “Defender of the Faith” a title bestowed by the Pope on Henry VIII before he broke away from the Roman Catholic Church to establish the Church of England in the 16th century.”
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Jeg synes, vi skal være glade for det danske kongehus, de har da ikke indtil videre udvist dhimmi-tendenser.
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I am not actually excellent with English however I find this real easy
to understand.