Prince Charles' Windmill Tilt

FrontPage has a new article up discussing Prince Charles' well-intentioned but ultimately naive attempt to convince "moderate" Muslim scholars to end the practice of murder and intimidation of Muslims who convert out of Islam (as required by classical Islamic law). The "moderate" Muslims in attendence at the prince's secret conference, as reported by the Telegraph, included Zaki Badawi, the sort of scholar who is continually paraded before the Western media as a kind, tolerant, "moderate" Muslim we should all look up to.

Prince Charles is famous for his study of Islam and his promotion of Islamic causes. He has been used, perhaps unknowingly, as a dawah tool by Muslim missionaries, some of whom dishonestly claim that Charles is a "secret" convert to Islam. Perhaps Charles felt his Islamic scholar friends "owed" him something for this.

If so, he was sadly mistaken. He and the other Christian attendees at the meeting got bupkis, of course. Just some vague assurances that the apostasy ruling should be "reinterpreted" but that the matter was best left to internal efforts conducted by the "moderate" Muslims. Meanwhile, Charles and the attending Christians were told to keep their traps shut to the outside world about apostasy and Islam's view of it. As I said, Charles was highly naive to think that anything would come of his intervention. The apostasy rule will never be reformed, because it helps Islamic dawah (missionary outreach) and political control, even if it is privately deplored by many "moderate" Muslims.

Those who are concerned about Islamic apostasy laws, which cause the deaths of hundreds if possibly thousands of people every year, should make a donation to The Barnabas Fund, a UK organization that fights for persecuted Christians in Muslim and Communist lands.

Crossposted at The Adventuress.

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