Charles, Defender Of The Faiths.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)

War on Terror: Prince Charles will waltz across the pond today to lecture Americans on the joys of Islam. Great timing: Islamic nuts just beheaded three Christian girls in Indonesia and blew up 60 Hindus in New Delhi.

It wasn't but a few months ago that they blew up more than 50 of the prince's countrymen. But never mind. He says we're all failing to appreciate the terrorists' faith.

Americans in particular have been too intolerant of Islam since 9-11, he says, succumbing to "unthinkable prejudices" against a religion of peace and tolerance.

Yes, we know that not all followers of Islam are bad -- or terrorists. Most Muslims are law-abiding and hard-working, good citizens of the countries they live in. But that doesn't mean Islam doesn't have problems. It does.

And it's become politically incorrect to point those problems out.

Just last week, the president gushed at his annual Ramadan dinner (he's held one for Muslim leaders every year since 9-11) that he was adding a copy of the Quran to the White House library "for the first time in our nation's history."

At the Ramadan dinner, after praising the "compassion of Islam," Bush intoned: "Many Muslim scholars have already publicly condemned terrorism, often citing Chapter 5, Verse 32 of the Quran, which states that killing an innocent human being is like killing all of humanity."