> All human beings are equal, but all cultures
> and religions are not.

William A. Henry put it like this: "It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose."

I am at a complete loss when I try to come up with some reason I should care about what Charles does or says. He's a famous, royal, rich guy who married some young girl he didn't love and cheated on her with his mistress.

Did I miss something?

Bart Simpson is more enlightening.

Well Mark, TECHNICALLY he's next in line to be the ruler of the British Empire.
While this position doesn't have much in the way of power any more it does make him really really really rich. And aren't we supposed to love and adore rich people and forgive them their foibles (like the aforementioned young lady and their crazy beliefs)?
I thought that's how modern society works now?

DEER LORD, BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE IS A MORON.

Sorry, I had to shout. Don't even get me started on "anthropogenic global warming".

>>A culture that celebrates femininity and considers women to be the masters of their own lives

Who could not agree? However, to obtain this, we no longer celebrate masculinity nor do we consider men to be the masters of their own lives. It's all about her.

While I have not been physically in a Muslim nation, I suspect it's as hard to get men there to admit women are mistreated as it is to get women in the US to admit men are being mistreated.

So His Royal Highness, the Dunce of Wales, wants all the Saudi princes to get off their golden toilets in Mecca and give us a stern lecture on Western materialism.

Why won't this pompous parasite take his own advice, give away all his possessions to the poor, and go live in a cave in the Scottish Highlands?

Next in line to be ruler of the British Empire is a good paying gig, but I wouldn't trade places with the guy.

I don't know anyone who loves and adores the rich. Perhaps I hang with the wrong crowd. I don't resent or envy those who earned it, until they assume that that gives them the right to tell me what to do (yes, I mean you, Al Gore and Hollywood.) At that point, I vote for the second coming of the French Revolution in the neighborhood.

From the article: "The Prince told the audience the West could learn from the Islamic approach to nature."

Wasn't it an Islamic ruler who set the Iraqi oil wells on fire and released oil into the Tigris-Eurphrates delta?

Apparently, BP did learn from the Islamic approach to nature.

From the article: "I would like you to consider very carefully whether a big part of the solution to all of our worldwide crises does not lie simply in more and better technology.... Our science and technology cannot do this."

And wasn't it Western technology and science that put out those fires and cleaned up the delta?

I used to feel a bit sorry for Prince Charles. Having to wait until your mother dies to start the only job you've been trained for must suck.

But he is becoming a bigger twit every day, and this is yet another proof.

the West could learn from the Islamic approach to nature.
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... which is why the Muslim world is largely barren desert - stripped bare by a culture that hasn't built anything of value for centuries.

Every time I see or hear Charles, I'm reminded of the Monty Python sketch about The Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest.

Most Americans do not understand that fundamentalist Islamist Mullahs are correctly interpreting the Koran. "Moderate Muslims" are actually turning their backs on elements of Koranic instruction.

One bit of evidence: Bill Whittle interviewed of a U.S. Government whistleblower ( http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=56 ) who was tasked with finding Islamic doctrinal arguments which the U.S. Government could market to the Islamic world in such a way as to decrease numbers of Islamic fundamentalists and to increase numbers of moderate Muslims.

Ultimately, the whistleblower was shocked by his own findings:

Over a long period of time, I ended up collecting a large body of Islamic law - an enormous amount of it available in English - and realized that: if Islamic law is the criteria by which you measure legitimacy or illegitimacy, you can't show that the moderates have a doctrinal basis to the position they hold; and you can't show that, on the statement of the law, the radicals are wrong.

I was expecting to find competing views that had some merit. I was expecting to find that the moderate view would be the dominant view, and that we would have to figure out these and how to make these arguments so that the people in the Middle East would know what it was -- and [I] could not find it. Now, I could find that you're not allowed to fight a jihad you can't win. And thats a limiting factor. But when you get to actually what published Islamic law says: it supports the radicals in what they say. And, you come to find, after you get a sense for the language of jihad, and for a sense of how the language of Islamic law works, that it's [the language of jihad] pervasive, even in the U.S. Muslim community.

Whittle:
Inside the Dept. of Defense ... what were the consequences of you coming back with this information?

Whistleblower:

Shock, [and then] complete unresponsiveness to facts. If you are professionals, then you have a duty to be competent that includes the duty to know. And if you are National Security Analysts who are professionals: your violation of your oath to be competent is a violation of your oath to protect and defend. It just seems that they completely picked up our whole national security apparatus and moved it from a factual legal basis to one that supports narratives. And it just struck me that, when you hit a certain level - and I don't want to sound too cynical, but, at the same time: it seems that the point at which your future promotion was dependent upon [orienting around] a narrative, as opposed to orienting on facts - well, I witnessed a complete shutdown. A friend of mine called my brief "the red pill brief", or "the guilty knowledge brief".

Prince Charles is rumored to have secretly converted to islam several years ago; statements like this do not help that perception. If he starts showing a raisin (prayer rug burn on the forehead) i will not be suprized.

... which is why the Muslim world is largely barren desert - stripped bare by a culture that hasn't built anything of value for centuries.

Posted by: Ben David

Wait, when have they ever create anything of value