King Charles ‘might be a Muslim’, says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani

King Charles ‘might be a Muslim’, says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as a legal advisor to former US President Donald Trump, recently expressed the idea that the English monarch could be Muslim. During an interview on British journalist Piers Morgan’s YouTube show, Giuliani also claimed that Muslims in the UK aim to seize control of the country, branding the Quran as a “cult of death.”

“I have people from England telling me you’re gonna be a Muslim country in 10 years,” he stated, while supporting the US-Israeli campaign against Iran.

Giuliani highlighted that the Roman Catholic Church has surpassed the Anglican Church in size within the UK, suggesting King Charles III might one day become the first Muslim ruler of England. This theory has gained traction online as a widespread conspiracy.

Charles, who leads the Church of England, is known for his respect toward Islam. He even studied Arabic to engage directly with the Quran. In past remarks, he emphasized the shared values among Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, noting their commonalities in spiritual traditions.

“Muslims in Britain are taking over and they wanna take over, and it’s their aim. And Iran is the fuel behind that,” Giuliani asserted. “You take out the Islamic Republic of Iran, the whole thing moves in the other direction.”

Contrasting Giuliani’s perspective, Charles has praised Britain’s Muslim communities as “an asset to Britain,” crediting them with enriching the nation’s cultural identity. He also noted that women in Islam were granted property rights centuries ago, and celebrated the “remarkable tolerance” of medieval Islamic societies.

Giuliani challenged the claim that only five percent of the UK is Muslim, arguing that their influence is disproportionate. He pointed to the presence of Muslim mayors, including London’s Sadiq Khan, as evidence of their growing political power.

“I was in London about a year and a half ago, and it seemed to me there were an awful lot of women with veils on that I’d never seen before,” he said. “Sharia law is a cult of death. And the Quran is a cult of death.”

Charles, however, disagreed with Giuliani’s assessment. In a 1993 address as the prince of Wales, he argued that Islamic law, rooted in the Quran, promotes equity and compassion. He further lamented Western ignorance of the cultural contributions from the Islamic world, which he believes are vital to modern Europe’s heritage.

Giuliani also criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, suggesting he is overly influenced by Muslim interests and fails to promote national unity. “He seems to want to make them happy, make them contented and certainly he doesn’t seem to be trying to make them English,” he remarked.

The king’s views on the US-Israeli war on Iran remain unclear, though he has been reported to privately oppose the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His engagement with Islam is tied to Traditionalism, a 20th-century philosophical movement that emphasizes the universal truths of great religions as antidotes to modern challenges.

“If [Traditionalists] defend the past,” Charles said in a 2006 speech, “it is because in the pre-modern world, all civilisations were marked by the presence of the sacred.”