Spain's Muslims brace for backlash

NYT/IHT.com ^ | March 15, 2004 | Lizette Alvarez

[veronica]

MADRID Ali Mrazl, a Moroccan who has built a tranquil, solid life in Spain over the course of 16 years, wishes he could turn back time. .

"People think less of you here now if you are Moroccan," said Mrazl, a store worker who lives in Madrid's immigrant quarter of Lavapies, where the police arrested three Moroccans with possible terrorist ties on Saturday. .

[cyborg]

Yep. exactly.

[expatpat]

....and they will be beheaded with the other "infidels

Actually, they will be first. The Islamists abominate feminism, atheism, and licentiousness and homosexuality -- the cornerstones of the liberal belief system.

[B Knotts]

I suspect "Moros fuera de España" will become a more common phrase in Spain.

[wagglebee]

Maybe Dan Rather will get his "desert wear" out and go undercover again and find out first hand about the "peace-loving" Muslims.

[vanmorrison]

You've got that right. The Spanish have just overturned a thousand years of their own history. They've thrown in the towel and capitulated to the Moslems. The policy of the new generation of Spaniards is appeasement and surrender. Why should the Moors back down now? What exactly do they have to fear for their murderous actions? What the hell kind of backlash against mass killing can we expect from a country that just threw out a government dedicated to carrying on the fight against terrorism? Expect more of the same murder, with the threshold constantly rising from now on.

[joesnuffy]

The muslim's socialist bros will look after them....after all they all know muslims are the victims
here..they were forced into killing Spaniards....its not their fault...its the fault of those who fight back against the terrorists that cause terror....

What the hell is wrong with these people? Let me count the ways...

[Alouette]

Spain's Muslims brace for backlash

Well, don't disappoint them.

[Texasforever]

Backlash hell, they just won big.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

Great thinking.

The economics of this could be huge.

For only $150 investment, the payback would be around 11 days in reduced social costs, assuming ($150 airplane ticket) / ($4800 net social costs per year / 12 months to a year / 30 days to a month).

We could even give them $1,000 resettlement fees and still win big time.

They would unlikely come back across the border the next day.

Hoppy

[Coeur de Lion]

It's very interesting how an amble number of facts from history can be taken out of context(not intentionally so) and lead to conclusions and so distort the history or the lesson(s) that should be learned from it. Yes, the Moors ruled Spian for 800 years. The Muslims and Jews were expelled. The Inquisition came about and resulted in the persecution of people. And that quote from the New York regarding Moorish rule in Spain .... "while the rest of Europe thrashed about in the Dark Ages", is all true. That part about the Dark Ages though, is pretty much cliche and that has to do with the point I'm going to make and I'll try to do it in a "nutshell": The Moors invaded Spain occupying it for 800 years. The Christian Kingdoms finally expelled them in 1492. The Jews and Moslems that were expelled were those who refused too convert to Christianity (in today's current lexicon Roman Catholicism). And the Jews and Muslims that were persecuted by the Inquisition were those who had converted to Christianity, but were considered suspect of not a true conversion i.e. they were practicing their original faith in secret. What a difference a "fair and balanced" view of history makes.

As for Moslems fearing a backlash they probably should but not from Spain's historical relationship with Moslems. No, that's what inspired the bombings. The backlash will come because maybe Al Qaeda, with its obvious connection with Islam, just pissed them off. I'm sure that some Spanish Moslem just might say, " Please don't beat me Senor, it may be true I'm a Moslem, but I have no connection with Al Qaeda." Now, that may be likely and he probably shouldn't get beaten. But, really--Give me a break!