Defender of the Faith...but which one?
Posted on 11/02/2006 11:21:00 PM PST by CrawDaddyCA
My very serious question is whether Charles may have secretly converted to Islam. Many of his remarks and public appearances give the definite impression that he might have. As I understand my English history, the Act of Settlement, adopted in the early eighteenth century, prohibits anyone other than a Protestant from becoming the English monarch. The English really need to investigate very carefully whether this dubious individual has actually become a Muslim, since that would preclude him from ascending to the throne on his mother's death.
Since MadIvan's a Brit, his views on his would be most appreciated.
I get the feeling the Queen will live to 108, if need be, to prevent her son becoming King.
I do think William will be our next King.
Regards, Ivan
"Prince Chucky again puts his hoof in his royal mouth."
I think he should be checked for that brain wasting disease over there.
But according to the US media, the problems will be solved only when people vote democrat.. Then people will stop trying to kill us, the crippled will walk again and the oceans will fill with fish and there will be no homeless and a cure for all cancers..
Charles is a twit, but I doubt very seriously if he actually said precisely this. Notice that it's not a quote? He probably said that if people actually followed the true teachings of their religion, including those of Islam, then the problems facing the world could be solved.
Remember the source: The Pak Tribune, as in Pakistan. Hey, I don't trust the Christian Science Monitor. Why should I trust what these jamooks tell me?
Coupla more comments here - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731030/posts
Since I last posted, one other thing has come to mind. As I remember my English history, the title, "Defender of the Faith" was bestowed on the young Henry VIII by the Pope because of a tract Henry had written denouncing Protestantism. Thereafter the English monarchs hung onto it, even though they became Protestants (sort of--see highly syncretistic history of Church of England). Once the Stewarts ended their reign with James II being booted out of the country the title took on the new, and very important, meaning of being the defender of the Protestant faith embodied in the Church of England. All of this later history is basically something Parliament imposed on the Hanover family as a condition of their becoming the English royal family, along with the Act of Settlement. How then does Charles, a Hanoverian who will owe his succession to the English Parliaments of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, even have the power to change "Defender of the Faith" to "Defender of faith?" It would seem he's seriously mucking with the legal basis of his own succession if he tries it. In other words, the historic title will be legally and historically imposed on him and he appears to have no legal right to change it without an act of Parliament.
Now we know the reason the Queen doesn't seem to want to leave him the throne, he is obviously a slack-jawed idiot.
What a dumbass.
"clash of civilizations could be averted by following the teaching of Islam and Quran."
Yes. When all Christians and Jews are dead there will be no more clash of civilizations, no more head choppings, no more neck slicings, no more forced conversions. All will be in peace. What a damned fool! he would willingly give away his once-great country to barbarians!
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