Britain’s future king on Thursday issued a heart-felt plea against religious persecution, warning against going back to the “dark days of the 1930s,” in his special Christmas message.
Talking on BBC’s ‘Thought of the Day’ segment, Prince Charles urged respect for those of different faiths or risk repeating the “horrors of the past”. “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. All of this has deeply disturbing echoes of the dark days of the 1930s,” the 68-year-old royal said. He added, “I was born in 1948, just after the end of World War II, in which my parents’ generation had fought and died in a battle against intolerance, monstrous extremism and an inhuman attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.”