{"id":671,"date":"2006-05-27T13:29:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/27\/murtadd_nazir-ali_on_defending_all_faiths"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:11:02","slug":"murtadd_nazir-ali_on_defending_all_faiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/27\/murtadd_nazir-ali_on_defending_all_faiths","title":{"rendered":"Murtadd Nazir-Ali on defending all faiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/41296000\/jpg\/_41296620_nazir_203.jpg\" align=\"right\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/5022664.stm\">The BBC reports<\/a> that the bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, has some opinions on the Prince of Wales&#39; plan to be &quot;Defender of Faith&quot; when (or if) he takes the throne:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Prince of Wales cannot defend all faiths because the differences between them makes such a position untenable, a senior Anglican bishop has said.<br \/>\nThe Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, said all faiths could not be defended because of serious differences between various religions.<br \/>\nHe said Prince Charles would be obliged to take an oath to defend the Christian church if he succeeded to the throne.<br \/>\nDr Nazir-Ali has also warned against &quot;multi-faith mish-mash&quot; in the UK.<br \/>\nHe told BBC Radio 4&#39;s Today programme the monarchy and the legal system had both emerged from the Judeo-Christian ethic.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that Nazir-Ali is biased or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that the bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, has some opinions on the Prince of Wales&#39; plan to be &quot;Defender of Faith&quot; when (or if) he takes the throne: The Prince of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-aP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42437,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/42437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}