Saturday, August 9, 2014

Queen Beatrice is invited to convert to Islam during a concert.

I was told this is the conductor but I am not so sure. I cannot find his name anywhere on the pages I viewed, the man, conductor or not, interrupts a concert to deliver a lecture, a standard testament of faith and proselytization. Beginning with customary victimization, "We tried contacting you directly but we were ignored."

The musicians walk off. The man is escorted out. The place searched for bombs even though the man told them there are none, they're not taking any chances. In other words, he is not taken on faith.



This happened a few months ago. The link came to me just now as a forward, originally a discussion between two friends between themselves, who have little to no interest in such things. I never hear these two talk about politics. It's always either business or nonsense between them. I expected more nonsense. It surprised me, actually. One of them knows I have such interests, the other one wishes I didn't.

As if musicians walking off were as good as the concert they paid to see and troubled to attend, commenters on this thread respond with the following gif:


And this gif tiled to create a full audience.


There is more to the story.

Queen Beatrice takes on the leader of her country's anti Muslim party by dismissing as nonsense their criticism of her wearing a headscarf on visiting a mosque.

Eh. My mum wore headscarves and it had nothing to do with Islam. It had more to do with wind and convertibles, and keeping her do in place. But that was then and this is now, and that was America and this is a mosque in the UAE. When in Rome, as they say. But you have to admit, she does look like the Queen of Tarts in the Photo.

Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile to wreck your concert. The same response would be given a Christian or Jew or Buddhist or whoever pulled this. What thick skull these people have. A concert is a concert, not another opportunity to press and impose one's faith.

All the squiggly backward writing in comments on YouTube to this video is the same wearisome recitation of Quran sutras you see anywhere and everywhere, completely and purposefully missing the point. Commenters talking right past each other.

6 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

You can dress him up but you can't take him out.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

There is a time and a place for everything.

KCFleming said...

Well, they've already got the White House.

Unknown said...

As queen, I'd use my influence in better ways.

Showing respect to a religion that subjugates women would not be on my list.

rcocean said...

Good thing he didn't quote Jesus, the Queen might have walked out too.

Lipperman said...

-Queen Beatrix
-not a conductor but religious nutcase known to the police
-September 2011.