THIS POST BY MATTHEW YGLESIAS leads Aziz Poonawalla to send the following:

I did NOT mean to imply that YOU had accused Charles of anything, but rather that News of the World did. I am worried that others may also draw the same conclusion. Could you post the following clarification on your post?

“News of the World is whom I am defending Charles against. Their article insinuates that that Charles’ anti-war opinions (which reflects the general public opinion in Britain) are caused by his secret Arab (implied: Wahabi) sympathies. They took a photo from a cultural visit to a peaceful Muslim community (mine, BTW) that is fiercely loyal to the UK, and used it out of context to imply its exact opposite.”

It greatly bothers me that your generous favor of linking to my post could open you to unfounded criticism of something you did not do (and which apparently I was not careful enough to make clear in my own post). I apologise.

No apology needed. I didn’t misunderstand. (I didn’t think linking to Aziz’s interesting post was a “generous favor” — except maybe to my readers — either). I didn’t think my post said very much at all (it’s here) since it was pretty much a pure link, but whatever.