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How the Eton-educated wartime Aga Khan offered '30,000 armed Arabs' to help Hitler - but still evaded treason trialLast updated at 18:34pm on 8th March 2008 Secret plan to help Hitler: Aga Khan III, pictured at the races   Britain dropped a secret plan to charge the Aga Khan's grandfather with treason despite evidence that he offered to help Hitler in the war, documents just released reveal.  Ministers shelved the proposed prosecution of Sultan Muhammad Shah – who was Aga Khan III at the time – for fear it would inflame Muslims.  The spiritual leader of the world's Zizari Ismaili...

The Last Youth Standing - What the West and Islam share are elites detached from their own demographic realities Mark Steyn - November 20, 2006 I was watching Mansbridge One on One the other day. Don't ask me why. May have been an "encore presentation." Or more likely an encore presentation of an encore presentation. For a 24/7 news network, there's an eerie timelessness about CBC Newsworld: one would be only mildly surprised to switch on and find Mansbridge One on One with Lester B. Pearson or Sir Charles Tupper. Anyway, this week, the one he was on was the...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ignorance and rejectionism lie at the heart of the conflict between the Western and the Islamic worlds, the Aga Khan, spiritual head of the world's more than 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, said. Prince Karim Aga Khan urged a renewed effort to promote pluralism and tolerance through education, while also addressing festering political disputes and desperate poverty which have contributed to rising extremism. Talking to a small group of journalists in New Delhi, he said the world was grappling with "a conflict of ignorance". "It is not a conflict of civilisations. It is an enormous gap...

presented in London by the imam Karim Aga Khan. For a fruitful relationship between the great Muslim tradition and Western civilization ROMA – Last October 19, the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London celebrated its 25th anniversary – like the pontificate of Karol Wojtyla – and for the occasion, the imam of all the Shia Ismaili Muslims in the world, Prince Karim Aga Khan (see photo) gave a speech on the interpretation of the Koran that sounds revolutionary in comparison to the thinking dominant in the Muslim world. It is revolutionary, but perfectly orthodox. The Ismaili are part of...