Posted on 08/18/2006 9:31:38 PM PDT by Let's Roll
Subject: Fwd: Spanish newspaper article on Judaism (In English)
All European life died in Auschwitz
By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have turned our beautiful Spanish cities into a third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs. What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
All American Patriots must pay attention and come together or they will eventually lose their great country as well. Spain has gradually allowed their country to be absorbed by liberal polices, ideals and a permissiveness that presented the current dilemma.
OK, wait, uh, Mexicans are Jews? I'll have to think this over.
Good article--passing it along.
CRAP - every culture has changed the world, and all of them for the better. Conflicts will occur when one thinks that "mine is better then yours" but the outcome is the same. Basic Darwin in the long run.
Thanks for posting. You've got to feel sorry for the people in Europe that see the insanity.
The propagation of Jews in our world belies his well-intentioned points. The Jewish people, nor their culture, was destroyed. It is a testament to Jewish resiliency and character that they not only survive, they flourish in doing so.
"The author mentions Europe, but how about the Spanish alone? They persecuted Jews--"
The Inquisition only sought to find Jews who were pretending to have converted to Christianity but were secretly remaining Jews.
No one who could say, "I have always been a Jew and never claimed to be anything else" was touched by the Inquisition.
Can you give a source? In the late 1990's, according to Guiness Book of World Records, the Spanish population was around 99% percent Roman Catholic (which seems to be an exaggeration; the only higher one reported was Saudi Arabia with 100% Muslim, almost definitely made up). What happened to the sizeable Jewish, Muslim, and Protestant minorities, then?
If anyone has spent any time in Europe outside the touristy areas, you'll know how bad it is. I didn't think Spain was too bad, but I had my brushes with African and Arab trash in France. The police are lazy cowards, too. The country is lost because they won't fight for it, to win it back. I don't ever want to go back to France because it is depressing to see how screwed up it is. If you take a train into Paris, you'll see the Arab and African ghettos. The weird thing is that I've talked to a LOT of Europeans, and every single one was disgusted by their immigration, yet the problem is only getting worse. I think soon you'll see kooks like Jean-Marie Le Pen and Joerg Haider getting elected because the population is really angry. Maybe they'd be better than the current kook politicians they have.
Something to remember: Spain was under muslim domination for 700 years prior to the inquisition.
A little research will show you that the muslims had their own type of inquisition, in the form of a set of questions asked of spiritual leaders. This inquisition is known as the "Mihna", and was invented by a islamofascist known as Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun in 833 AD.
This was 100 years after Spain was overrun by islam, and nearly 650 years before the Spanish inquisition.
Those who "passed" were encouraged to join the fight against "infidels". Those who "failed" - answered in some unacceptable fashion - were beaten, imprisoned, and killed.
I have come to believe that the worst of Spanish behavior came from muslim influence.
The Inquisition had nothing to do with the forced conversions. Strictly speaking the Inquisition had no jurisdiction regarding none Christians, Jews only appeared in Inquisition trials as witnesses most often against the defendant. In any case most of the forced conversions took place well before Isabella during a period of riots in the 1350s. And it was not a government sponsored action either, but a spontaneous serious of peasant revolts which had to be put down by royal troops.
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There was never a “sizable” protestant minority in Spain. As for the nature of the Spanish Inquisition and its relationship to the Jews of Spain go check out Henry Kamen's The Spanish Inquisition. The author is Jewish and is one of the new bread of Inquisition historians who does not rely solely on contemporary English and Dutch anti-Spanish political propaganda.
1. How has the culture of any of the various Amazon jungle tribes "changed the world"?
2. How did the Australian aboriginal cultures made the world "better"?
You've taken politically correct multicultural hypertolerance to a new level, where discernment and reason are left behind in exchange for the rambling nonsense.
"No one who could say, "I have always been a Jew and never claimed to be anything else" was touched by the Inquisition."
Stop with the BS. Pope John Paul apologized for it. Was he lying?
Jews who did not eschew their faith were thrown out of Spain. Getting thrown out of your home, your country seems like being "touched" to me.
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In the same month in which their Majesties [Ferdinand and Isabella] issued the edict that all Jews should be driven out of the kingdom and its territories, in the same month they gave me the order to undertake with sufficient men my expedition of discovery to the Indies." So begins Christopher Columbus's diary. The expulsion that Columbus refers to was so cataclysmic an event that ever since, the date 1492 has been almost as important in Jewish history as in American history. On July 30 of that year, the entire Jewish community, some 200,000 people, were expelled from Spain.
Tens of thousands of refugees died while trying to reach safety. In some instances, Spanish ship captains charged Jewish passengers exorbitant sums, then dumped them overboard in the middle of the ocean. In the last days before the expulsion, rumors spread throughout Spain that the fleeing refugees had swallowed gold and diamonds, and many Jews were knifed to death by brigands hoping to find treasures in their stomachs.
The Jews' expulsion had been the pet project of the Spanish Inquisition, headed by Father Tomas de Torquemada. Torquemada believed that as long as the Jews remained in Spain, they would influence the tens of thousands of recent Jewish converts to Christianity to continue practicing Judaism. Ferdinand and Isabella rejected Torquemada's demand that the Jews be expelled until January 1492, when the Spanish Army defeated Muslim forces in Granada, thereby restoring the whole of Spain to Christian rule. With their most important project, the country's unification, accomplished, the king and queen concluded that the Jews were expendable. On March 30, they issued the expulsion decree, the order to take effect in precisely four months. The short time span was a great boon to the rest of Spain, as the Jews were forced to liquidate their homes and businesses at absurdly low prices. Throughout those frantic months, Dominican priests actively encouraged Jews to convert to Christianity and thereby gain salvation both in this world and the next.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/expulsion.html
"What happened to the sizeable Jewish, Muslim, and Protestant minorities, then?"
The mooselimb scum were finally expelled from Spain in 1492, the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue. After that, the Jews were ordered to convert or leave. Protestant heresies were still to come.
Thanks. Reminds me of Fallaci's more graphic descriptions of the affect of Muslims on Europe's streets -
“yellow streaks of urine that profaned the millenary marbles of the Baptistery"
"You've taken politically correct multicultural hypertolerance to a new level, where discernment and reason are left behind in exchange for the rambling nonsense"
Nope - sorry -
You seem to be upset that I have not expressed how every single culture of the world has not contributed.
...and you point out a few that you say have not contributed..
Perhaps you should look further
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