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| Friday Prayer in a Madrid Mosque |
Posted on 08/29/2004 2:42:28 PM PDT by dennisw
By Mohammed Ayub Khan
The American Muslim Magazine
Never has history “chosen” to eliminate a race of people as in the Spanish Inquisition. One wonders why the silence has remained so strong about a people who brought glory and art to Europe for over 900 years. When western students open their history books and read about the “Moors,” few are ever taught that what they are reading has any relevance to Islam. Even today, on architecture frames found in Spain, one can still see the secretive Arabic inscriptions written during the days of the Inquisition: “La ghalab illa’illah” (There is no conqueror but Allah).
The resurgence of Spain’s Muslim community began in 1976 in Cordoba, when five young men became Muslims through the da`wah of Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi and followed his instructions to spread Islam among their people. They were the first known Spaniards to enter Islam since the time of al-Andalus. Their efforts resulted in many people embracing Islam and the establishment of a Muslim community in Granada. Through as-Sufi’s initiative, the community bought land in the very heart of the old Muslim city, Albaycin, with the intention to build the first mosque built by Muslims since the Inquisition.
Although their efforts were hindered by public and governmental opposition for 18 years, their project recently succeeded and the community, which has gained some respect, is on the brink of establishing a whole Islamic institution consisting of a mosque, an attached school, an Islamic college, and a da`wah and training center.
After 500 Years, a New Mosque Opens in Granada
The opening of a new mosque in Europe should not necessarily make the news. After all, with over 15 million Muslims scattered throughout Europe, mosques are nothing new. But the opening of this mosque has a special symbolic value for Spanish Muslims, and has struck a nerve with some Spaniards who fear that this is the beginning of an Islamic reconquista of al-Andalus. “This is the first mosque to be opened by Spanish Muslims in over 500 years,” said Abdul Haqq Salaberria, a spokesman for the Islamic community in Spain. “We hope that Spaniards will understand ... that we do not want to re-conquer al-Andalus, but we do want recognition.”
The mosque is opening amid much fanfare and after many years of struggle. The Granada Muslim community consists mainly of North African immigrants and European converts. Some local people have greeted this mosque project with fierce opposition, such as by painting "Moros Fuera" (Moors Out!) in the old Muslim quarter. And last year, when Muslims tried to pray the Friday prayer in the ancient Cordoba Mezquita Cathedral, there was another uproar. But now, on Fridays the adhan (call to prayer) will sound in this historic Islamic city for the first time in 500 years. “The mosque is to show [that] it is not so strange to have Muslims in Spain,” said Abdul Haqq, a Basque convert. “We want to say [that] we are as much Spanish as you are.”
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| Friday Prayer in a Madrid Mosque |
Just like cancer....mohammedans are every bit as malignant, and this time, Spain's gonna have as hard a row ro hoe as they did for 700 years until they kicked that accursed cult of death out of their country. I hope they still have the cojones to do it, but I'm afraid they don't, post-3/11.
A large group of Spaniards resemble Arabs with their facial features.
Soulless demented fiends praying to a soulless demented moon god.
"...five young men became Muslims through the da`wah of Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi and followed his instructions to spread Islam among their people.'
At least we know who to blame.
THIS is the enemy we face. A violent, vicious, utterly implacable ideology that wants to send us screaming back to the Eigth Century. Some of you have noticed that I refer to Democrats as "DhimmiRATs". I've taken the DemocRAT usage, but combined it with the mohammedan term "Dhimmi". A Dhimmi is a religious minority in a mohammedan country. The Dhimmis are treated in a manner similar to the way Jews were treated in Germany during the 30s and 40s. And worse, there are leaders in the Dhimmi communities who argue that subordination to mohammedans is the proper place for their people (sound like a certain party here, and how they hold up Islam as a "religion of peace"? Shame on you, GW, for buying in to that filth!).
This isn't the "War Against Terror", nor should we think of it that way. This is no more the "War Against Terror" than WWII was the "War Against Banzai Charges." This is a war of civilized nations against Islam....it's a war for the survival of almost 2000 years of rebuilding Western civilization after the fall of the Roman Empire. It's effectively World War III (or WWIV, if you count the Cold War....I'm not so sure of that). We had better catch on to who the real enemy is...UBL is just a general...suicide bombers are just privates....the real enemy is Islam, and any Muslim should be viewed as a potential enemy soldier.
I used to work with a guy whose roots were from Galicia in Spain. It was his considered belief that the best thing the Spaniards ever did was kick the Moslems out of the country.
Personally, I'm tired of hearing about the "GOLDEN AGE" OF Islamic Spain...Note: we never hear about the glory of Islamic civilization in Greece, Serbia Hungary...as late as
the 1980's the Bulgarians were kicking the ethnic Turks out of their country. Oh yes, the Moslems are all for toleration in those countries in which they are a minority... While they treat the religious minorities in their own lands like 3rd class citizens. Yes... the diaperheads were very progressive for the 8th century, but the world's changed a bit since them.
ISLAM IS LOVE
“Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.”
- President Bush, September 10, 2002
President Bush's Roundtable with Muslim Leaders -
"All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith -- face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate."
- President Bush,
September 10th, 2002
ISLAMIC NATIONS DESERVE FREEDOM
“The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.”
- President Bush, June 1, 2002
A WAR AGAINST EVIL
“All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.”
- President Bush, November 6, 2001
NOT AT WAR AGAINST ISLAM
“Because this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people.”
- President Bush, January 5, 2002
ISLAM IS OF CHARITY
“The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur’an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace.”
- President Bush, November 15, 2001
AMERICA’S MUSLIMS
“There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and they know what I know -- that the Muslim faith is based upon peace and love and compassion.”
- President Bush, September 28, 2001
TERRORISTS HIJACKING ISLAM
“The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends.”
- President Bush, September 20, 2001
WAR ON TERROR, NOT MUSLIMS
“I've made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it a war against Arabs. It's a war against evil people who conduct crimes against innocent people.”
- President Bush, September 19, 2001
ISLAM IS PEACE
“The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.”
- President Bush, September 17, 2001
1) It's now, not in history
2) Israel is situated much closer to the heart of Islam, not on the periphery
3) Jews are very small in numbers compared to Christendom yet they rule what was Mohammedan turf.
Ever read the Hadiths? The Sunnah?
I have....Islam is not peace, it is not love, it is not charity. Islam is hate. (Quran, Sura 9:25) Islam is war. Islam is slavery. Islam is death.
Sunnah=Muhammad's example. Which all faithful Muslims must emulate. he was the finest example of a human being thus all should emulate and copy his life as much as possible.
The Qur'an orders Muslims to follow Muhammad's example, and the example he set in his Sunnah is that of a terrorist. That is why Osama bin Laden said, "They men who executed the suicide bombings of 9-11 were good Muslims following Muhammad's example." It's why the most senior clerics in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran agree.
Thank God for the crusades.
Why? The Crusades managed only to push Islam out of a small strip of the Mediterranean coast, establish some short-lived Christian kingdoms, and weaken to the point of collapse the main Christian bulwark against Islam: the Roman Empire. (I refuse to participate in the Western European charade of pretending the Empire fell when the last Western Augustus was retired to a villa in Naple in 476, and calling the Roman Empire 'the Byzantine Empire" to cover the lie. The Empire fell when the Turks took Constantinople in 1453.)
Islam was generally the expansionist, imperialist power. Most Western actions against Islam are presented as aggressive or imperialistic...in reality, they were long delayed counter offensives that started pushing the Islamic tide back....The crusades, SPAIN, Lepanto, and kicking them away from Vienna twice, lastly in 1683. I'd be more tolerant of Moslems if moslems were more tolerant.
This article would generate only good wishes if Islam weren't a religion that lobotomized its followers and turned them into hate-filled killing machines. The author of the article is schizophrenic...celebrating the resurgence of something out of the Dark Ages. Really sad. Horrible. Like Goebbels and Nazi Germany.
I did have 1 muslim friend before 9/11, and he stated the despised the actions. But when I questioned him on his so called religion and the actions carried out in it name, he would no longer talk to me other than on certain occasions. He kept trying to convince me that the quran promoted peace and would quote me verses, I would respond with the versus that should exactly what islam is about (world domination and control). He finally stopped trying to convince me and tried to start a lawsuit against me on how I was denying him advancement because of his religion. I informed the goat-lover to bring it on, I was head of IT and he was a telemarketer, not the same department. He dropped the suit as I informed him that I would defend myself with the 1st amendment and his beloved quran.
I do now believe that he was as most muslims are, unable to realize the truth and the POS religion they stand for.
A beginning of a peaceful world will only begin when the islamic scum are eliminated.
SledgeCS
Sadly, for us, Americans are the new Jews, and Islam wants to kill at least four million of us right off the bat, men, women, and children, plus maiming several hundreds of thousands. That's just to get our attention, mind you. Then they really play hardball.
I have a Muslim/Iranian friend whose family allowed her to immigrate here with an American Military family. She came as a high schooler and married a blonde hair blue eyed Military boy from Minnesota. She maintained her Islamic beliefs although she never acknowledged to other Muslims her Iranian heritage. Recently, however, she started attending a Bible study, is filled with the Holy Spirit, and interestingly has a real fear of Muslims. This is really interesting since now, in February she and her husband are being transferred to Spain. I've wondered if because of her Iranian features she'll be discriminated against even though now she is a Christian. I'm worried for her.
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