Given all his comments about Islam and how the the UK has been overrun with Muslims, id venture a guess that he is.
In case you haven't seen his quotes on Islam, here are a few
On Islam’s spiritual and intellectual heritage (2010 speech at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies):
“The Islamic world is the custodian of one of the greatest treasuries of accumulated wisdom and spiritual knowledge available to humanity. It is both Islam’s noble heritage and a priceless gift to the rest of the world.”
On what the West can learn from Islam (1993 speech “Islam and the West” at Oxford):
“Islam can teach us today a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is the poorer for having lost.”
On Western misunderstandings and cultural debt (1993 speech):
“If there is much misunderstanding in the West about the nature of Islam, there is also much ignorance about the debt our own culture and civilisation owe to the Islamic world.”
On Islam as integral to Europe (1993 speech):
“Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart.”
On medieval Islamic tolerance (from his writings/speeches on Islamic civilization):
“Mediaeval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which we in the West today would do well to remember.”
On Islamic contributions to science and the Renaissance (speech at Markfield Institute):
“Anyone who doubts the contribution of Islam and Muslims to the European Renaissance should, as an exercise, try to do some simple arithmetic using Roman numerals. Thank goodness for Arabic numerals and the concept of zero introduced into European thought by Muslim mathematicians!”
On the preservation of knowledge (2006 speech at Al-Azhar University):
“We need to remember that we in the West are in debt to the scholars of Islam, for it was thanks to them that during the Dark Ages in Europe the treasures of classical learning were kept alive.”
On Islamic views of the natural world and environment (1996 speech “A Sense of the Sacred”):
“I start from the belief that Islamic civilisation at its best... has an important message for the West in the way it has retained a more integrated and integral view of the sanctity of the world around us. I feel that we in the West could be helped to rediscover those roots of our own understanding by an appreciation of the Islamic tradition’s deep respect for the timeless traditions of the natural order.”
On not equating extremism with Islam (various speeches, including 1993):
“We must not be tempted to believe that extremism is in some way the hallmark and essence of the Muslim. Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions.”
He has also quoted the Quran approvingly (e.g., on saving a life being like saving all humanity, from Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:32) in speeches praising Muslim charitable work, and has repeatedly emphasized the need for greater understanding between the Islamic world and the West while praising the contributions of Muslim communities in Britain.
In the late 80s at that!
He sold out his people, his country, their culture, and the kingdom. British kids will not inherit their forefathers country.
Let’s pray that’s not true.
Given all his comments about Islam and how the the UK has been overrun with Muslims, id venture a guess that he is.
In case you haven't seen his quotes on Islam, here are a few
“The Islamic world is the custodian of one of the greatest treasuries of accumulated wisdom and spiritual knowledge available to humanity. It is both Islam’s noble heritage and a priceless gift to the rest of the world.”
“Islam can teach us today a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is the poorer for having lost.”
“If there is much misunderstanding in the West about the nature of Islam, there is also much ignorance about the debt our own culture and civilisation owe to the Islamic world.”
“Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart.”
“Mediaeval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which we in the West today would do well to remember.”
“Anyone who doubts the contribution of Islam and Muslims to the European Renaissance should, as an exercise, try to do some simple arithmetic using Roman numerals. Thank goodness for Arabic numerals and the concept of zero introduced into European thought by Muslim mathematicians!”
“We need to remember that we in the West are in debt to the scholars of Islam, for it was thanks to them that during the Dark Ages in Europe the treasures of classical learning were kept alive.”
“I start from the belief that Islamic civilisation at its best... has an important message for the West in the way it has retained a more integrated and integral view of the sanctity of the world around us. I feel that we in the West could be helped to rediscover those roots of our own understanding by an appreciation of the Islamic tradition’s deep respect for the timeless traditions of the natural order.”
“We must not be tempted to believe that extremism is in some way the hallmark and essence of the Muslim. Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions.”
He has also quoted the Quran approvingly (e.g., on saving a life being like saving all humanity, from Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:32) in speeches praising Muslim charitable work, and has repeatedly emphasized the need for greater understanding between the Islamic world and the West while praising the contributions of Muslim communities in Britain.
Oh, no. I have little doubt he converted to Islam.
Makes the whole “head of the Anglican Church” a bit of an odd position.
What I meant was with regard to, “British kids will not inherit their forefathers country.”
To Runnymede!
The People can absolutely hold “the monarch” to account, it just has to be actualized…
Ah my fault! Totally misread your comment then fren!
All they Royals have been prey of the Money Magic for centuries.