Monday, November 10, 2003
PRINCE OF WALES, ISLAMIC SYMPATHIZER
I knew I didn't like Charles. He's a luddite, a widely-held view. That was bad enough. But Allah has turned us on to the fact that "the Prince, a practising Anglican, said there had been a 'loss of meaning' in Western society and cited traditional Islamic culture as an example of how spirituality can be integrated with modernity." (From an article in The Times about Charles' speech regarding Islam in 1996). Here are some choice quotes from the speech:
[T]he danger that the gulf between the worlds of Islam and the other Eastern religions on the one hand and the West on the other will grow ever wider and more unbridgeable is real, unless we can explore together practical ways of integrating the sacred and the secular in both our cultures in order to provide a true inspiration for the next century.
Islamic culture in its traditional form has striven to preserve this integrated, spiritual view of the world in a way we have not seen fit to do in recent generations in the West. There is much we can learn from that Islamic world view in this respect. There are many ways in which mutual understanding and appreciation can be built. Perhaps, for instance, we could begin by having more Muslim teachers in British schools, or by encouraging exchanges of teachers. Everywhere in the world people want to learn English. But in the West, in turn, we need to be taught by Islamic teachers how to learn with our hearts, as well as our heads.
What a crock. First lumping Islam in with "other Eastern religions" is a typically foggy-headed and fundamentally ignorant move by romantic, anti-scientific twits like Charles. Islam has nothing in common with Buddhism. Nothing. To put Buddhism into the same category as Islam is a deep insult to Buddhism. That this moron could make such a statement makes me sick. Then the heir to the throne tells us England ought to have more Islamic teachers in its schools. Right. Brilliant move, Charlie. Let's just eat a big culture of mind-virus -- no, let's feed it to our children.
Oh, by the way, I could care less about his sexual habits, but that seems more important to most people. I suppose that's good, given what a dangerous man his idiocy could make him otherwise.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:14 PM
