The Islamophilia of King Charles
He has long seen Islam as a reactionary corrective to Western modernity.
Charles was not making a case for mere cultural relativism, different strokes for different folks. He was actively championing the Islamic worldview as superior to that of the post-Enlightenment West. It ‘can teach us today a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is the poorer for having lost’, he said. ‘Western civilisation has become increasingly acquisitive and exploitative in defiance of our environmental responsibilities’, he continued, before claiming that ‘we can relearn from Islam’ a ‘wider, deeper, more careful understanding of our world’.
Time and again over the past few decades, Charles has returned to this theme, pitching Islam as a corrective to the modern world. The Islamophilia of King Charles is fast becoming all of our problem.