Prince Charles and Camilla visit Al Azhar mosque / Charles adresses group of Muslim scholars

Prince Charles and Camilla visit Al Azhar mosque / Charles adresses group of Muslim scholars; EGYPT: Cairo: Al Azhar mosque:EXTPrince Charles, Prince of Wales along next Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (wearing pale blue jacket and headscarf) as chatting to unidentified Egyptian man / Charles PAN Camilla wearing head scarfINTLarge audience of Muslim scholars and students listening to Prince Charles speech SOTPrince Charles, Prince of Wales speech SOT- I first voiced my thoughts publicly on relations between Islam and West in 1993, in speech at Oxford / Something I said then has troubled me ever since / I said despite advances in technology and mass communication in second half of 20th century, despite mass travel and intermingling of races, misunderstandings between Islam and West continue - indeed they may be growing / Tragicaly the intervening 12 years have confirmed my fears, and for many those years have been profoundly bleak / My heart is heavy from witnessing the neverending death and destruction, the kind of death and destruction I understand only too well, having experienced loss of my great uncle Lord Mountbatten at hands of terrorist bombers in 1979 / Images of communities torn apart by religious conflict are deeply harrowing - evidence of just how far misunderstandings have continued and escalated / Violence so often justified in name of religion effects a terrible hardening of hearts - what good can possibly come of all this / Respect for others, and for what is precious to others, in other words good manners, civility and willingness to listen ensures respect to our own values and ideals / Recent ghastly strife and anger over Danish cartoons shows danger of our failure to listen and to respect what is precious and sacred to others / In my view, the true mark of a civilised society is respect it pays to minorities and to strangers - generous, hospitable welcome to strangers is justifiably a proud element of Arab culture- We in Britain h...