Years ago, I enjoyed Wagner's Ring Cycle on TV because I was able to follow the plot thanks to sub-titles. (I would not have been carried along by the music alone.) Adzel, a Wodenite who resembles a dragon, sings Fafner when he is a student on Earth.
In The Earth Book Of Stormgate, Chinese New Year is celebrated in San Francisco Integrate and Christmas on the planet Ivanhoe. We celebrate both in Lancaster.
We recognize Sikh men by their turbans and their karas. Ensign Flandry takes orders from Commander Singh when no superior officers survive in a space battle.
Kossara Vymezal encounters an extremely unpleasant human subject of the Merseian Roidhunate named Muhammad Snell (Eriau name: Kluwych). We are more fortunate in our Muslim neighbours who share food at Eid.
Kossara, later canonized, lies in state in St. Clement's Cathedral in Zorkagrad on Dennitza. In Lancaster, we have a Priory Church, a Cathedral of St. Peter and a Polish language Catholic Church among others.
The Terran Emperor celebrates his Birthday by following daylight around the globe. The King of England visited Lancaster where he is Duke.
Our multi-cultural society prefigures their multi-species society.
Humanity will survive the Long Night but might not survive the Chaos.
Sayonara.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I take a cold view of Islam as Islam. Fanatical Muslims massacred Christians in Nigeria on Palm Sunday. And the danger of death faced by Christians in all Muslim controlled nations (except, possibly, Malaysia) ranges from High to Very High.
It's good not all Muslims are like those Nigerian killers, but the brutality baked into Islam by Mohammed is ineradicable. A UK which became the United Emirate of Great Britain would not be good.
"Multiculturalism" is not necessarily an unmixed blessing.
Ad astra! Sean
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