Back Again, After 500 Years A new mosque opens in Spain.(July 2003)

opinion journal ^ | Friday, July 18, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT | MELIK KAYLAN

[dennisw]

Back Again, After 500 Years A new mosque opens in Spain. Good news? Not necessarily.

For the first time in six centuries the muezzin's cry echoed over Spanish Granada with the inauguration in that city of a new mosque last week. The call to prayer hadn't been heard in the old capital of Moorish civilization since the last Muslim king was expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492.

[dennisw]

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Not only has Spain uncovered a string of al Qaeda plots on its soil but it has publicly backed the invasion of Iraq to the anger of its growing Muslim population, some 500,000 at last count. Indeed, the entire new-mosque venture is now freighted with sensitive historical and political questions.

[dennisw]

Posted last year here--->>>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/948481/posts

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We allow more of these people in the West at our own peril.

[Kakaze]

" Here, then, is a precise illustration of the West's complicity in its own troubles. The mosque seems customized for Spanish soil and the traditions of Spaniards only aesthetically. Spiritually and politically--which are the same thing to hardline Islamists--the mosque remains a product of forces from outside Spain. "

Basically a pig wearing lipstick is still a pig.

[joesnuffy]

Why doesnt Spain start up huge ranches for bubonic plague infected RATS
Since they yearn so much to re-create historically events that dang neared wiped them out
and made the people suffer horribly

After that they can re create the Spanish Inqusition

Suicidal morons overun the old world