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Dr Gavin Ashenden has called time on the House of Windsor, criticising King Charles III for ignoring Easter after praising Ramadan.

The Queen’s former chaplain issued the fiery response on Good Friday, asking Charles why he had made time to coddle Islam, yet had no time for Christian Britain.

“King Charles issued a warm message to the Islamic community at the beginning of Ramadan this year.”

“He didn’t issue a greeting to the Christians whose Lent parallels it. In fact, he was notably silent,” Ashenden observed.

King Charles, ‘Inclusion’ and UK’s Decay

We’re told King Charles has adopted an inclusive approach to his reign, the former Royal chaplain stated.

So where is it?

Surely, if this were true, he would have issued an Easter message alongside the tribute to Ramadan and Eid.

Pointing out the King’s glaringly obvious contradiction by omission, Ashenden said there is “no sense of even-handedness.”

“Neither this year nor last year did [the King] mention Christianity and Lent.”

“It’s odd,” he remarked.

While the King does acknowledge Christianity, he usually only does so to promote Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Judaism.

“There isn’t anything specifically Christian about his commitment or his public pronouncements”, Ashenden asserted.

“When it’s Christian, it’s a platform for inclusivity. When it’s Islamic, it’s exclusively Islamic.”

Christians are the majority in the United Kingdom, so why does Charles appear to be more “sympathetic to Islam”?

Ashenden added that people were right to wonder whether the King of Christian Britain and defender of the faith was actually a Muslim.

Refusing to honour that oath damages King Charles’ “relationship with his subjects.”

Defender of the faith is not just a title, thundered Ashenden. It’s an oath “to defend the faith to be the supreme governor of the Church.”

“If Charles is the supreme governor of the Church, and he is, it’s part of his coronation covenant, then where is his sense of celebration?”

Where is the encouragement?

Well, Ashenden stated, Christianity in the West, particularly in Britain – Anglicanism above all – is “beginning to sink and decay”.

“All the institutions that have been taken over by the hard left by wokery dislike Christianity.”

Defender of the Faith Missing in Action

In that elitist echo chamber, the King is its last defender.

“You might think that just as an expression of his Christian identity, of the need for Christian civilisation, that he would do something to give some extra confidence or boost.”

While there is no traditional Easter message from the monarch, “this would be the moment to start!”, Ashenden exclaimed.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a “profound moment of hope.”

“It’s the hope that the life of the soul, the life of integrity, the life of the metaphysical survives beyond death.”

“We are more than what we appear to be on the surface. We’re more than biological creatures,” he added.

So why does the King seem to think his people don’t need to be encouraged?

Easter is the perfect time to use his “platform to say, ‘Be of good cheer, my subjects. Jesus rose from the dead. There is hope. There is life after death.’”

Of course, asserting that Jesus is alive means that Mohammad is a false prophet, Ashenden continued.

Islam’s prophet didn’t just claim Jesus’ crucifixion was a trick, a masquerade. Mohammad claimed Jesus lied about his resurrection.

Adding apologetics to protest, Ashenden said the problem for Charles’ multi-faith relativism lies in the fact that “Christianity and Islam contradict each other.”

“Muhammad and Jesus contradict each other. You cannot have them both. One of them is a false prophet.”

“What might contradicting Mohammad cost the King?”, he asked.

This brings us back to Charles refusing to issue an Easter message, said Ashenden.

“Why is the integrity of the Quran a matter of sensitivity to the king?”

Why would saying “Jesus is risen indeed” be that difficult for a supposedly Christian king?

“Is that where his multiculturalism constrains him?”

Sure, the King shows up to church services, Ashenden admitted, “but what’s needed at this time of crisis as Christendom sinks in the West is more than just presence.”

Ashenden: Western Civilisation Won’t Survive without Christianity

Christianity’s assertions about human dignity, charity, justice and humility — as an outworking of the recognition that we are made in the image of God — need asserting.

“This is not the case in Islam.”

For instance, Ashenden explained, “Men do the most dreadful things to women.”

In the United Arab Emirates, as The Telegraph just reported, British-owned schools are required to teach pupils Islam.

Kids are being taught ways to beat a wife, all sanctioned by the Quran.

This is allowable under UAE law as long as the Muslim man who is “disciplining his wife” doesn’t leave bruises.

Christianity is different, Ashenden stated. It affirms respect between the sexes.

“If you lose Christianity, the integrated and integral value of human beings will disappear.”

Abortion already plagues our young. Euthanasia is coming for our elderly “because they’re too expensive to look after.”

Sharpening his point, Ashenden declared, “Only Christianity gives a safeguard and a sanctity to human beings.”

“Only Christianity promises the equal treatment of men and women in terms of the currency of world religions.”

If our civilisation, he said, doesn’t protect Christianity, it will lose it and “disappear into a long dark age”.

“We have left-wing fundamentalism on one side of us, a Neo-Marxist determination to build in an authoritarian society where people no longer have the freedom to speak and think.”

“We have an Islamic theocracy on the other.”

This is a moment of crisis for what’s left of Christendom.

Addressing King Charles directly, the former chaplain pleaded, “It’s Easter, your majesty. Christ is risen. Try saying it perhaps to your subjects to encourage them.”

“Encourage them to live the faith, to talk the faith, to pray the faith, and to rediscover their own value in the eyes of God.”

“Is that not what a king ought to do at a time like this?”

Visibly frustrated, Ashenden warned, “If you cannot find it in your heart on Easter day to wish your Christian country well on a feast of Christ’s resurrection, then maybe you ought to be doing something else in life.”

“Maybe the span of the usefulness of the house of the Windsor has come to an end.”

“You might want to give that some thought.”

Ashenden’s open letter wasn’t delivered in haste.

Long opposed to the Islamisation of the Church, he quit his Queen’s chaplaincy role in 2017 in protest over the Church quoting the Quran in the name of “building bridges.”

At the same time, Ashenden left the Anglican Church, saying on X, “The Church of England left me long before my legal dissolution”.

Adding to his open letter on YouTube, Ashenden also published the pushback on Substack.

Suggesting that widespread criticism sparked by the former chaplain did not entirely fall on deaf ears, the Royal Family posted a half-hearted, Happy Easter message to social media on Resurrection Sunday.

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