Father Of Cadet Insulted By Prince Harry: "Sorry's Not Good Enough"

The father of a Sandhurst recruit called a 'Paki' by Prince Harry has condemned it as a 'disgraceful insult'.

Muhammad Yaqoob Khan Abbasi said yesterday that he was 'hurt and angry'.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[eastcoastprogressive]

It is time for the British to abolish the monarchy and join the 21st century.

[stanschurman]

You've got that right except it's most likely their biggest industry. The Queen does her job well, but the rest of them......?

[LeeVing]

Well, at least we now know that America isn't the last home of racism in the world.

[SinisterK9]

Nowhere is the last home of racism. Racism will exist in some form so long as their is mankind.

[southwindow]

you appear to know very little about the world.
america, for all its faults, handles race issues far better than europe is doing currently. australia had series of race riots with between white and indian aussies. In places like India and nepal, remnants of the caste system still make life unbearable for many.
canada seems to be doing quite well, but then again french speakers try to secede every once in a while.
Racism is alive and well everywhere, open a news paper.

[ItsyBetsy]

Harry should have been named Dick

[Ascoli]

Harry is an idiot with a royal crown.
Stupidy is stupidity.
Oh .....maybe he was just being 'one of the fightin boys'.
Pretty stupid right there.

[kernau]

Give us a break. Get over it papa.

[EuroHuffPoFan]

These British Royals are repulsive :(

[jesuswazasocialist]

Come on I am an Republican and not an monarchist but Harry is in the Army and when he said this is was 22 yrs old or something don't be too harsh on him, I reckon his a good bloke and shouldn't have to say SORRY TO ANYONE, st uff them....DO NT SAY SOR RY HARRY..

[jesuswazasocialist]

aNY WAY euro I BET YR GERMAN or french or something anyway. Good on harry.

[FZliveson]

Hey! Hooo oooo
The BBC news has nothing about this right now.
So why should we care?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

[paulalex]

That means nothing happened.

Move along ;-)

[Deaninphilly]

Because it happened years ago, they don't care. It's like reporting the weather 3 months after the fact.

[Seven7s]

MIlitary personal have never been the most intelligent people in the world.

They are trained killers. Look how they behave when they come back from wars. By no fault of their own they are barely even functional.

Waiting for an intelligent comment from someone who has seen battle and is trained to kill and ask questions later (if at all) only makes you look stupid in the end.

[SinisterK9]

You'd be surprised the training and education todays military personnel receive.

[odan]

I see someone with zero millitary experience showing there ignorance.

[RightWingMarine]

have a lot of experience with this do you?

[FZliveson]

Just because the person who fathered you went to Canada instead of "Nam doesn't mean
everyone should bolt. Most of the world you know was built by veterans of WWII, Korea and Vietnam... most of the inventions, hotels, etc. So your pretense is so full of holes it's net funny. AND the word is "personnel" not "personal." Also, if you look through the crop of people in the outgoing government, there were only a few veterans in the whole lot and look at the sociopathic behavior our of that lot. You need to enlist, sonny.

[LarBear]

Seven7s....

Interesting your Opinion of the Military who put their LIFE on the Line, even defending no Class people who think only ignorant people would join the Military and PROTECT sorry behaving people such as you... Guess that makes your Opinion unintelligent, as it is NOT from experience, or you would know different... Were you to Cowardly to Serve, or not Intelligent enough to pass the tests and qualify? Nuclear Schools, Electronic Schools, Officer Schools, Pilot Schools.... Yeah, only unintelligent people can do those.... C R A P....

I bet you spend time as a SNERT, huh?

[renatam]

You can feel Diana's missing influence in episodes like this...repeatedly with this young man. Respect and empathy for all are her lasting legacy despite her challenges. This is most unfortunate - and a true reflection of the corrupting and toxic influence of the British Monarchy.

[JSDKoeln]

Oh Blah. He's a young guy in a rough military life. He's allowed to make mistakes and learn from his mistakes. So he said something he regretted. Can anyone here raise their hand and say that you have never said anything you regretted???????

I think think this dweeb wants some money.

[mouselion]

*rough military life*?

He's a *commissioned officer* who happens to be a prince.

In the most class-oriented organization in the world.

[adamsmith3]

Dramatic much? He said something stupid in an off the cuff manner. We all do things like this even if they aren't ra.cist things, we all say offensive things. But we don't start talking about the dumb things we say in private in such dramatic terms as being "a true reflection of blah blah blah."

[Judyisacutie]

When I first heard about Harry's comments I thought they were in poor tastes and lacked judgment. But when I saw the video and realized he was talking about people not to their faces but while stepping over them as they slept, it seemed much worse. You are most helpless when you are sleeping. To think that someone would use derogatory terms about you while standing over you as you sleep seems almost psychopathic. Those who would like to coddle Harry and make excuses for his behavior aren't helping Harry. What he needs is some help straightening his thoughts out before he gets set in his ways and becomes an anti-social, deranged person.

[renatam]

Like his father.

[Takae]

The friend (or not) whom Prince Harry was referring to was awake and talking to someone else. But please feel free to continuing demonizing that stupid guy if that makes you feel better.

[dylansstp]

Pkease tell me you are not a social worker who councils others. You would have everyone running around thinking their crazy.

[odan]

Give him a break, he was joking on his fellow soldiers; it's not like he T bagged them while they slept.

[FZliveson]

God help us! If this woman would have her way, all the military people in the world would be relegated to throwing rose petals and singing Kumbaya all day, instead of taking care of the necessary work of being prepared to defend our peoples and our property. Men and women in the military need to be taught to be "badass" for a reason. It's not pretty, but it is necessary. This is the formula of human nature, proven by history. A few keyboard strokers like us aren't going to change human nature on this blog. Read some history Judy...You're too cutsie.

[FZliveson]

Excellent wording JZ735! "Would you like to be insulted with a racial slur"

Eleanore Roosevelt said:
"No one can insult you without your permission."
What she meant was that you need to be ready, willing and able
to interpret something that someone else says in such a victim-like
context that you cannot respond with anything stronger than having
your whitie-tighties twisted and act all indignant and debilitated.
We are being made into PC children by all this emotional crap.
Inventory what your terms and tenets are and then rock-on. Who
gives a darn if some idiot says something small? Why honor the comment
with a reaction...You are too busy getting your purpose accomplished
to want to stop by the wayside and scrap over someone else's idiocy.
Step it up!

[octo]

Plenty of Royalists here on HP I see. Jolly Good old chaps. Glad to see we can still depend on the old colony, what?

[Takae]

What the? That's like saying people who defend Bush are patriotic, or those against him are unpatriotic. It's irrelevant.

[jhamm1]

Badly done, Harry. Badly done, indeed.

[ndnndpendent]

Who cares what this glorified welfare recipient thinks anyway?

[missviv]

LOL @ "Glorified welfare recipient". For a young man who really never needs to work a day in his life, you'd think he could at least keep up the posture at all times - it's the least he can do.

[sbmulqueen]

But unlike most people who lead a life of extraordinary privilege - like say the Bush twins - he actually is serving and wanted to serve on the front lines with his whole unit until that idiot Drudge compromised his and all his squad's safety. Not a defense of the war, of course, or even what he said. But at least get the facts straight

[wallygator]

When I went to Texas they called me a Yankee. Waaaah