For the second time in recent months, Prince Charles has issued a warning that people must not forget the atrocities which occurred during the Second World War.
The future King warned the “horrific lessons” of the Holocaust seem to be in increasing danger of “being forgotten” during an impassioned speech at a fundraiser for the World Jewish Relief charity in London.
He then urged people of faith to “extend a helping hand” beyond their own religions to wherever help is needed.
Many are now questioning whether Prince Charles is making a thinly-veiled attempt to warn against the rise of populism and in particular, US President Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ as it’s not the first time he’s issued such a warning.
During his Christmas address to BBC 4’s Thought Of The Day programme, Charles warned about the singling out of minority religions in modern society and how he is concerned we are repeating the “horrors of the past”.
“My parents’ generation fought and died in a battle against intolerance, monstrous extremism and inhuman attempts to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe,” he said.
“We are now seeing the rise of many populist groups across the world that are increasingly aggressive towards those who adhere to a minority faith.”
Another speaker at the event, the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, slammed Trump’s executive order that temporarily bans residents from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering America.
“President Trump appears to have signed an executive order which seems to discriminate against individuals based totally on their religion or their nationality,” he said.
“We as Jews perhaps more than any others know exactly what it is like to be the victims of such discrimination and it is totally unacceptable.”
The heir to the throne’s latest advice comes amid mass unrest in Britain over Donald Trump’s controversial executive order over immigration.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside 10 Downing Street, to protest both the order and his planned state visit to the UK later this year, when he will be received by the Queen and stay at either Buckingham or Windsor Palace.
