http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2006/03/prince_charles_.html#more
[Times Online] March 21, 2006--On tour in Egypt with the Duchess of Cornwall, the Prince of Wales has called for greater tolerance between the Islamic and Western worlds. In a speech at Al-Azhar university in Cairo, he has also had a go at those who published the Danish cartoons, expressing concern over the 'failure to listen and to respect what is precious and sacred to others.' This is commented on in our main leader today. It is all most commendable, but I just can't help but wonder how Abdul Rahman, facing the death penalty in Afghanistan for apostasy, feels about the Prince urging us to more tolerance. It seems bizarre that in Afghanistan, as the Bishop of Rochester told me yesterday, British soldiers, fighting under the banner of our monarch, are being injured and killed for the sake of upholding a regime that executes apostates who convert to Christianity.
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