The Queen of Denmark gets it
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark gets it when it comes to Islamofascism and its attempts at penetrating Western culture. From this article at
Yahoo/UK/AFP:
Danish queen warns against rise of Islamic fundamentalism
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II warned against the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Denmark and the world in a new book out, saying people must on occasion "show their opposition to Islam".
"It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and very lazy," she said in the authorized biography "Margrethe" written by journalist Annelise Bistrup.
While she did not specifically refer to fundamentalism, she spoke of "these people for whom religion is their entire lives".
"We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance," she said.
"And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction," added the queen, who has reigned since 1972 and celebrates her 65th birthday on Saturday.
Emphasis mine -- that says it all... I have had the pleasure to know a number of moderate Islamics, it is the fascism, utter intolerance and fundamentalism that is the concern.
An interesting parallel can be found in the 1980's writing of Seattle Science Fiction author FM 'Buz" Busby (who sadly passed away last February 2005). His series on the Demu make me think about the Islamist fanatics who move to Dhimmi countries and try to convert the populace. From
this fan site (warning -- it's Tripod so be ready for lots of #@$& pop-ups):
According to their religion, the only true intelligence in the universe is Demu. When they ranged out of their planetary system, they encountered other intelligent beings, and they conceived it their duty to turn these "animals" into Demu through conditioning and plastic surgery.
They feel this is a generous and holy mission, and they are unable to comprehend the resistance of other races to this conversion. Because of this attitude, initial meetings between the Demu and other frontier races were somewhat strained at best.
And more from
this spot-on essay at Authors Den:
A look at the culture of homogenization.
Science fiction author F.M. Busby wrote a trilogy of books involving the relationship between humans and several other species of aliens, most notably a rather pig-headed (not literally, they actually were more crab-headed) race known as the Demu.
What was most notable about these hard-shelled, humourless genocidal maniacs was that they didn't go out into the universe to kill everyone else. They went out to make everything right. In their view.
They were certain that only Demu had souls, had true intelligence. So, they'd capture some aliens and see if they could teach them the Demu language. If they could, then obviously nature made a mistake and it was to them to rectify the problem by surgically altering these poor unfortunates to resemble Demu.
Ghastly enough, but their medical technology was lacking anesthesia. Their idea of mercy was to cause you the greatest pain first, hoping you'd pass out from the shock and then they could finish removing your lips, teeth, body hair, external genitalia and those annoying excess finger joints while you were comatose from shock.
Hat tip to Charles at
LGF for the Queen Margrethe II link.
Posted by DaveH at April 14, 2005 9:24 PM