How the new Monarch is continuing a respect for Islam
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A mosque in East London. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia.
More than three million people of Islamic faith live in Britain, and many others are spread across nations with ties to the UK.
Though the British Monarch traditionally serves as the head of the Church of England, the Queen was noted for her engagement with Muslim communities in the UK.
She was the first royal to visit a mosque in the UK, according to Zara Mohammed, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, reports BBC.
"We at the Muslim Council of Britain remember how the Queen devoted her life to public service and sought unity among British communities," she told R4 Sunday.
That legacy of engagement appears poised to continued under the new Monarch, King Charles III.
The King has long been an advocate of interfaith dialogue, remarking in a 1993 speech that he "wholeheartedly" believed that links between the Christian and Islamic worlds mattered greatly, "because the need for the two to live and work together in our increasingly interdependent world has never been greater".
According to the Cambridge Central Mosque, the King has studied Arabic to understand the Koran.
As Ben Judah of the Atlantic Council, a think tank, noted, the King has traditionally gives a speech welcoming the Muslim festival of Eid each year, is a patron of the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies and has spoken frequently of the learning from Islam.
