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While Spanish Muslims are busy trying to Islamize Spain, Spanish politicians are busy removing all references to Christianity from public discourse…The requirement which will be enshrined in Spain's legal code law, represents an unprecedented encroachment of Islamic Sharia law within Spanish jurisprudence. Spanish police have arrested a Muslim immigrant in Mallorca after he claimed to have been sent by Allah to "kill all the Spanish." The arrest follows a series of other Islam-related incidents in recent weeks and months which reflect the mounting challenge that radical Islam is posing to Spain. In the latest incident, police on the Mediterranean island...

...Less than seventy years after the death of Mohammed in 632, his followers had already conquered most of the Middle East and North Africa. In the beginning of the eighth century, the leaders of the new religion turned their eyes to Christian Europe, dreaming of new Moorish conquests. On the other side of the Strait of Gibraltar, Visigoth Catholic Spain was in a state of decadence, undermined by the Arian heresy, steeped in vice, its army and people lax, and its leaders divided. In 711, because of internal divisions, traitors informed the Muslims about the weak points along the Spanish...

MADRID — Spanish police arrested 16 people Monday who are suspected of recruiting Al Qaeda fighters to send to Iraq, officials said. The group's alleged leader, a 25-year-old Iraqi known as Abu Sufian, had access to Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, and probably sent his recruits on suicide missions, the Interior Ministry said. The 16, of several nationalities, sent volunteers to Iraq "to wage jihad as members of the Al Qaeda network," Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso told a news conference. He said the group had two fighters ready to send to Iraq at the time...

MADRID -- Spanish authorities say they are worried about violent "military tactics" used by would-be African immigrants who have taken the small Spanish-ruled enclave of Melilla as a potential means of crossing into Europe. "They're using military tactics and strategies," the governor of the Spanish town on Moroccan territory, Jose Fernandez Chacon, told the Madrid daily El Pais. "We can't rule out the notion that militias with experience of waging African wars are among them." About 300 Africans stormed the double metal fencing surrounding Melilla "trying to cross by force and in a synchronized operation," in which 10 Spanish Civil...

MEDINA AZAHARA, Spain - To hear historians tell it, this buried city three miles west of Córdoba was the Versailles of the Middle Ages, a collection of estates and palaces teeming with treasures that dazzled the most jaded traveler or world-weary aristocrat. Pools of mercury could be shaken to spray beams of reflected sunlight across marble walls and ceilings of gold, according to contemporary records. Doors carved of ivory and ebony led to sprawling gardens full of exotic animals and sculptures made of amber and pearls. "Travelers from distant lands, men of all ranks and professions in life, following various...

Fear of Islamist terror casts shadows on the country that expelled the Moors ALL of Europe, it seems, is fretting about its Muslim population. Spain's is relatively small—less than a million—yet no country has a more complex relationship with Islam. Until two years ago, the muezzin's cry “Allahu akbar” had not been heard in Granada since the reconquista and the expulsion of the last Moorish king in 1492. But then a mosque was erected in the Albaicin quarter near the Alhambra. For the mainly Spanish converts to Islam who built it, this was the dawn of a new era: as...

Seville Awaits First Grand Mosque The Seville mosque will accommodate up to 10,000 worshipers. By Al-Amin Andalusi, IOL Correspondent SEVILLE, June 14, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Plans to build the first grand mosque in the Spanish southern city of Seville are proceeding at full swing, despite fierce opposition form few locals. In May, the Muslim association of Seville reached an agreement with the authorities on building the mosque, expected to be one of Europe's biggest mosques. Arab Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, will finance the two-year construction of the mosque, expected to total six million euros,...

MEMRI: Jordanian Clips: Professor on Muslims' Reconquering Spain Today's first clip is of Jordanian professor Ghazi Rababa appearing on Al-Majd TV to discuss killing Jews and how Muslims will return to Grenada and Cordoba. The second clip is an Al-Arabiya TV report on how Jordanian authorities handle honor crimes. *Clip #710: Jordanian Professor Ghazi Rabab'a: Muslims Will Return to Cordoba and Granada Presenter: Do you believe that the Muslims will one day return to Cordoba and Grenada? Rabab'a: The Muslims will return there if we follow way of God and spread the word of Islam. Only then will the vast...

5/22/2005 Clip No. 710 Jordanian Professor Ghazi Rabab'a: Muslims Will Return to Cordoba and Granada The following are excerpts from an interview with Jordanian Political Science Professor Ghazi Rabab'a, which aired on Al-Majd TV on May 22, 2005 Rbab'a:I want to finish with what the Prophet Muhammad said: "Judgment Day will not occur until you fight the Jews, when you are on the east of the river and they are on its west, until the tree and rock say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him, except for the Gharqad tree,...

One year after the Madrid bombings, calls for made-in-Spain imams grow stronger in a region that still reflects on its past Muslim glories At the Jamal Islamiya mosque in this seaside town, a Muslim lament of historic proportions is proclaimed in large letters on a framed poster: "In 1492, we lost everything." For the mosque's leader, and much of the Muslim world, the year marks the traumatic conclusion of Islam's golden age, a time remembered like a collective wound. It's a period when the last piece of Muslim-held territory in Spain fell to Catholic monarchs, ending almost 800 years of...

MADRID (AFX) - Spain's Islamic Commission, which groups the nation's Muslim community, said it was issuing a fatwa against Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, 'We are going to issue a fatwa (religious decree) against Bin Laden this afternoon,' Mansour Escudero, who leads the Federation of Islamic religious entities (Feeri) and co-secretary general of the Spanish governmenmt-created Commission told AFP. The Commission invited Spanish-based imams to condemn terrorism at Friday prayers, when the whole country will be remembering the 191 people who were killed in the train blasts and the 1,900 injured a year ago. The attacks have been blamed on...

MADRID, Spain — Muslim clerics in Spain issued what they called the world's first fatwa, or Islamic edict, against Usama bin Laden on Thursday, the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, calling him an apostate and urging others of their faith to denounce the Al Qaeda (search) leader. The ruling was issued by the Islamic Commission of Spain, the main body representing the country's 1 million-member Muslim community. The commission represents 200 or so mostly Sunni mosques, or about 70 percent of all mosques in Spain. -snip- The fatwa said that according to the Quran "the terrorist acts of...

MADRID, Spain — Muslim clerics in Spain issued what they called the world's first fatwa (search), or Islamic edict, against Usama bin Laden on Thursday, the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, calling him an apostate and urging others of their faith to denounce the Al Qaeda (search) leader. ....

MADRID (AFX) - Spain's Islamic Commission, which groups the nation's Muslim community, said it was issuing a fatwa against Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, 'We are going to issue a fatwa (religious decree) against Bin Laden this afternoon,' Mansour Escudero, who leads the Federation of Islamic religious entities (Feeri) and co-secretary general of the Spanish governmenmt-created Commission told AFP. The Commission invited Spanish-based imams to condemn terrorism at Friday prayers, when the whole country will be remembering the 191 people who were killed in the train blasts and the 1,900 injured a year ago. The attacks have been blamed on...

SPAIN'S Islamic Commission said today it was issuing a decree against al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in the name of whose network last year's Madrid train bombings were claimed. "We are going to issue a fatwa (religious decree) against bin Laden this afternoon," said Mansour Escudero, who leads the Federation of Islamic religious entities (Feeri) and is co-secretary general of the Spanish governmenmt-created commission. The commission invited Spanish-based imams (clerics) to condemn terrorism at Friday prayers, when the whole country will be remembering the 191 people who were killed in the train blasts and the 1900 injured exactly 12 months...

In Spain there are about 600 thousand Muslims; 6 thousand of these are converts. Islamic immigration started about 15 years ago. There are different Muslim communities and religious reference points. The most important are: the Association of Immigrant Moroccan workers, like a union, unlinked to religious groups; the CIE, Spanish Islamic Commission, an organ recognised by the government and integrated by FEERI, the Federation of Islamic Religious Entities and by UCIDE, the Union of Islamic Communities in Spain. In Spain there are 74 mosques and 139 associations. Just like in France, there are many garage-mosques, where violence is preached out...

MADRID, January 12 (IslamOnline.net) - Teaching Islam in Spanish schools has finally found its way to implementation after almost a decade of delays and obstacles. Since coming to power in the European country, Spain's new Socialist government under Jose Rodriguez Zapatero has made a host of good gestures toward the Muslim community in the country, the most remarkable of which was a decision to allow the teaching of Islamic subjects at public schools of major cities with significant Muslim presence. The long-awaited development saw the light early January, 2005. The government decision on teaching Islam only stipulates giving definition lessons...

Spain Arrests 7 in Suspected Terror Plan The Associated Press October 18. 2004 8:29PM Police arrested seven people Monday in nationwide raids targeting a suspected Islamic terror ring that was reportedly preparing for an attack. Police described the detainees as suspected members of an active Islamic militant group, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. "The ring is composed of Muslims that are residents in Spain," the statement said. It added that the suspects allegedly were in contact with people elsewhere in Europe, the United States and Australia. The private news agency Europa Press, citing police in charge of the...

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...

Spanish government wants to monitor mosques to check Islamic extremism 06:44 PM EDT May 03 MADRID, Spain (AP) - The government is considering monitoring mosques and imams to curb Islamic extremism blamed for the March 11 terror bombings in Madrid, the foreign minister said Monday. "I think it is important to know what is being preached on Fridays in the various religious forums that have been growing in Spain in a totally uncontrolled fashion," Miguel Angel Moratinos told the Telecinco television network, referring to prayers on the Muslim holy day. He said that, as Spain's North African immigrant community has...