From the London Telegraph comes this report that Prince Charles will plead the cause of Islam when he meets with President Bush this week.
The Prince of Wales will try to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam this week because he thinks the United States has been too intolerant of the religion since September 11.
The Prince, who leaves on Tuesday for an eight-day tour of the US, has voiced private concerns over America’s “confrontational” approach to Muslim countries and its failure to appreciate Islam’s strengths.
Here’s where the unemployed gentleman from Windsor gets it wrong from the beginning. We are not at war against Islam, we are at war against Islamofacsism, an ideology that is as much political as it is religious and which is dedicated to violent confrontation with the Western world. Talk all you want about Western Civilization’s debt to Islam, we are not dealing with the Islam that preserved the works of Aristotle, we are dealing with people who would prefer to burn the works of Aristotle, and any other infidel philosopher they can get their hands on. Making peace with people such as this is impossible.
More importantly, though, why should we care what this man has to say ? Didn’t we fight a war about two centuries ago so that we wouldn’t have to listen to this man’s family ? Let him come and throw a cocktail party at the British Embassy if he wishes but otherwise, Chuck, please shut up.
Captain Ed has this to say (and more) about the Royal Appeaser:
May I suggest that if the Prince wants to kiss the rear ends of imams that he continue to do so in his own country. We’re not beating Muslims in the streets here. We understand that moderate, law-abiding Muslims don’t represent any problem; we have many here who contribute to our society when they assimilate and accept religious tolerance. If Charles wants to debate traditions of religious freedom, perhaps he would like to bone up on a little bit of British history — including the debacle the British created in Northern Ireland, which continues to this day.
What he said.
Update: If you have any doubts whatsoever about who and what we are fighting against, check out this post at Outside the Beltway (be warned that the images the story links to are quite graphic), where James Joyner also has this to say in connection with the visit of the Prince of Wales:
It seems to me that President Bush has gone beyond the bounds of rationality in asserting that Islam had no part in the 9/11 attacks and that, despite millions of Muslims rooting for Osama bin Laden and his ilk, it is a Religion of PeaceTM.
Harsh words perhaps, but in light of events over the past 4 years, I believe they are also true.
