[sono]

Charles, would you kindly get back on your high horse and ride off into irrelevance? Thank you ever so much.

[satchmodog9]

[livius]

Prince Charles has adopted "positions close to Islam and Muslims, something no one else of his importance has done."

This is true. There is some speculation that Charles, ever the nutcase, adopted a Sufi-like form of Islam sponsored by a European convert group, the Marabittun (sp?), some years ago. Fortunately, being Charles, he probably dropped it and moved on to something even loopier.

[cricket]

Shahin said the honorary doctorate was intended to "encourage him to befriend Muslims in Great Britain and to support Islam against the obstacles it faces in Europe."

. . .yes, they could use some help in removing those obstacles which are slowing the emergence of an Islamic Europe. . .and a little help from friends in 'high places' should be not only cultivated; but appreciated.

And for those of us 'here'; who have not yet noticed a mosque in the neighborhood. . .one is coming soon.

[uptoolate]

At what point will the 'honorary' Islamic figurehead Prince Charles strap a belt of bombs around his waist and do us all a favor?

What would really be cool is if he blew himself up while receiving his 'honorary' doctorate.

[MinuteGal]

Remembering history.....there were many Hitler admirers, sympathizers and appeasers in the British royal family, nobililty, upper crust and intelligentia in the years leading up to WWII, even after the war broke out.

Suspicions swirled around the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, for example. So much so that the Duke was conveniently appointed as Governor of the Bahamas where he sat out the war in hot and humid "exile".

One would hope that Charles will be careful of indulging his exotic tastes for certain foreign ideologies more carefully than did the Duke. It may turn up to bite him in his royal posterior some day.

Leni