It seems every time our sovereign speaks, he shoehorns Islam into the conversation. His love for this repellent religion was made plain this year during Ramadan, the annual competition between Muslims to be more virtuous than other Muslims when they deprive themselves of food during the day – a little like many pensioners now must do – and then stuff themselves all night – unlike many pensioners.
Charles and Camilla were seen selecting Iftar dates, the food used to break the fast each day of Ramadan, for Muslim patients in hospital. He gave a long treatise on his admiration for British Muslims and the great contribution they have made to British society. However, his speech was somewhat lacking in examples. But here’s one: Our King appears committed to the Islamification agenda, having founded Mosaic, a leadership programme for Muslim men and women across ethnic and theological lines.
A key figure is Asif Aziz—dubbed the “meanest landlord in Britain”—whose Aziz Foundation supports Mosaic, pushed for a mosque at Piccadilly Circus, and backed the APPG on Islamophobia, which critics say suppresses scrutiny of Islam while criticism of Christianity remains acceptable. The Foundation also funded Sadiq Khan’s Ramadan lights and has links to the government-proscribed Muslim Council of Britain.
Other notable contributions of British Muslims include running wings of many of our prisons, maintaining order in the only way they know how: violence and oppression, thus saving HM Prison Service the bother. Of course, Muslims allegedly keep our NHS going and we could not manage without them.
This is so much the case that – rather than being reminded they did not live in a Muslim country – they were specifically thanked for working through Ramadan. We are referring here to 3.3% of the NHS workforce. We never hear about the 74.3% white British staff who work in the NHS – I imagine we’d be in serious trouble without them, but that never gets a mention.
But back to Charlie, who seems increasingly to be the voice of British Islam and lead gaslighter of the British population who are expected to lap all this up and accept it. His Maundy Thursday address in Durham Cathedral was a prime example. He said:
“On Maundy Thursday, Jesus knelt and washed the feet of many of those who would abandon Him. His humble action was a token of His love that knew no bounds or boundaries and is central to Christian belief.
The love He showed when he walked the Earth reflected the Jewish ethic of caring for the stranger and those in need, a deep human instinct echoed in Islam and other religious traditions, and in the hearts of all who seek the good of others.”
Not only does he manage to put the spiritual spotlight on Islam, but he also gives Judaism a walk on part. And his only mention of Christianity was as above; each religion was mentioned once each. Clearly, our King is living up to his desire to be the ‘Defender of Faith’ rather than, in his role as head of the established church, the Church of England, Defender of The Faith.
Of course, it all fits perfectly with his one world, globalist, syncretistic, environmentally obsessed outlook on the world. There is, surely, considerable symbolism in his mention of each of the Abrahamic faiths once each: he clearly sees them as being equivalent. He no longer, if he ever did, consider Christianity superior to both, and equally clearly, is no longer willing to accord it primacy in the hierarchy of religions.
In any case, and perhaps he does not care, his interpretation of Jesus’s apparently servile act at The Last Supper was nothing to do with Jewish or Islamic – both Semitic religions – customs. The last thing a wealthy Jew of Biblical times would have been seen doing was washing the dusty feet of a visitor to his house. That job would have been assigned to a servant.
According to the Catholic interpretation of the act, the washing of feet by Jesus symbolizes humble service, self-giving love, and the call for all believers to lead through serving others. Jesus was deliberately lowering himself in human terms to show how his disciples must carry on his mission. It was a unique act with neither precedent nor equivalent in the customs of his time on earth.
As for including Islam, he is right because they are a very hospitable people; the ones not running about with machetes and Kalashnikovs that is. I have seen this hospitality in many Arabic countries. But it as far from Jesus’s act of washing the feet of His disciples as the Islamic call to prayer is from the Roman Catholic Angelus bell.
Our King is many things but, while not exactly the sharpest tool in the intellectual shed, he is far from stupid. He knows exactly what he is doing and saying, and his speeches will be carefully crafted to achieve the right effect.
Naturally, we cannot expect him to scream blue murder with respect to Islam or any other non-Christian faith from the throne or the pulpit; many people of those faiths are his subjects. But is his mission to be the defender of faith really a mission to destroy the one true faith?
Roger Watson is a retired academic nurse who lives in the UK.
He is currently engaged in a range of professional consultancies in the UK, Europe and China. He writes regularly for several outlets including The Daily Sceptic, The European Conservative, Country Squire Magazine and The New Conservative.
