{"id":3591,"date":"2009-01-13T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T10:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/13\/apology-over-prince-harry-thug-comment\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:29:43","slug":"apology-over-prince-harry-thug-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/13\/apology-over-prince-harry-thug-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology over Prince Harry \u2018thug\u2019 comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Ramadhan Foundation Chief apologises<\/h3>\n<div><strong>THE head of a Manchester-based Muslim youth organisation has apologised over comments directed at Prince Harry in the wake of the recent race row.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mohammed Shafiq, Chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation issued a \u201csincere and unreserved\u201d apology after calling the prince a thug.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Shafiq\u2019s initial comments came in the wake of the weekend\u2019s race row after The News of the World published video footage of the Prince calling a fellow Asian soldier a \u2018Paki\u2019.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>At the time Mr Shafiq, 29, said: &#8220;He (Prince Harry) is trying to portray this image of being caring like his mother, who was a great woman, or his father who&#8217;s a person who&#8217;s widely respected across the world. He&#8217;s a thug.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But yesterday he issued an apology saying \u201cI allowed my emotions to get the better of me\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He added: \u201cOn reflection I wish to issue a sincere and unreserved apology to Prince Harry for any offence I have caused him. I recognise that when we make mistakes we should be honourable and decent to accept them and I hope that this apology is accepted in that way, I never intended to offend Prince Harry in this way.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Prince Harry has apologised over the incident, which was filmed in 2006. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/article.aspx?articleId=1213\">PM defends Prince Harry as race row grows<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramadhan Foundation Chief apologises THE head of a Manchester-based Muslim youth organisation has apologised over comments directed at Prince Harry in the wake of the recent race row. &#13; Mohammed Shafiq, Chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation issued a \u201csincere and unreserved\u201d apology after calling the prince a thug. &#13; Mr Shafiq\u2019s initial comments came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}