Sadly, as in Irak, it is not about Muslims or Christians, it is about Spanish internal politics. The crisis here is very deep and Zapatero, although having most of the media in his side, is
losing elections. To bother the American government pleases the far left, whilst it is some kind of retaliation against Obama for not attending the show they were setting up for him (they were expecting his visit).
If Zapatero wanted to hold a congruent position, he had to have left Kosovo one year ago, not when he need to stop his falling numbers in the polls.
“The crisis here is very deep and Zapatero, although having most of the media in his side, is losing elections.”
I spoke just yesterday with colleagues in Malaga and Almunecar who said the exact same thing. They, by the way, have been supportive of the government’s refusal to recognize Kosovo though not out of any sense of anti-Americanism but rather because they view the KLA as a successful Balkan version of ETA.