Spain’s capitulation: Seville will have its first mosque in 700 years after the Reconquista

Posted by DanielS on Saturday, 25 May 2019 13:53.

Defend Europa, 25 May 2019:

700 years is a long time, many centuries, many generations, many people who saw how Seville flourish thanks to the commerce of the Spanish Empire, becoming the centre of Southern Spain.

Seville is truly a city with an interesting history, with important and curious events. Today’s event has gone unnoticed by the majority of Spaniards and Sevillians, as well as most of the media. Perhaps in the eyes of Sevillians, this event is only considered part of the “innocent” game called multiculturalism.

The title doesn’t lie, Seville, a city with a deeply Catholic tradition, will have its first mosque in 700 years, after the Reconquista. Many people will ask “what’s wrong? It’s just a simple mosque.” And to be honest, putting myself in their place, I would also ask myself, “What’s wrong with a mosque?”

Nine years ago, there was an attempt to put a mosque in the Sevillian neighbourhood of San Jerónimo. The response of the neighbours was blunt: NO!

As you can see in the video, the reaction was clear. Of course, this protest was labelled as islamophobe, xenophobe, and others “phobes” from the list the regressive left uses to attack patriotism.

But now, it’s different.

The new mosque

In the scene of this political theatre, enters a man called Kanoute, a former player of the football team Sevilla FC, which is raising 300,000 euros for the construction of the mosque.

“I do it to save the Islamic worship of the city,” he declared.

In a country like Spain, which the Muslim population has reached 4% and continues to grow under this Socialist government, the opening of this seemingly unimportant mosque will open the appetite for the construction of many more. The same trend has been seen in Barcelona for example.

With the capitulation of another city in Spain, its European roots begin to tremble. Attacks on Spanish culture can be seen daily. Me your writer, a simple Spaniard and Sevillian, cannot but help remembering the words of Ferdinand III of Castile, who reconquered the city:

“I did not rid this city of the Mohammedan power so that hundreds of Moors stay here to practice their infidel rites.”

The Spaniards do not forget, the spirit of the Reconquista is still alive.

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Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:45 | #

El Pais travels to the places where Spain’s far-right party made the greatest gains at the November 10 election to find out what its supporters are like, and what they hope to gain from their vote. What emerges is a complex picture that cuts across age, social background and even ideology.

https://english.elpais.com/eps/2020-02-21/why-i-voted-for-vox.html

Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 07 Apr 2020 23:57 | #

There was no Reconquest. No military campaign lasts eight centuries.

https://english.elpais.com/arts/2020-02-28/henry-kamen-there-was-no-reconquest-no-military-campaign-lasts-eight-centuries.html

Historian Henry Kamen makes a few interesting points in this interview about his new book ‘La Invencion de Espana”. My favourites being…

Kaman doesn’t buy the story of an idealized Al-Andalus either, which he says is the fabrication of 19th century foreign romantics who were fascinated by Spain’s Islamic heritage. The splendor of Al-Andalus, he says, is limited to a very brief period in Cordoba during the 10th century and another subsequent spell in Granada.

The image of a profoundly Catholic Spain is rather due to thinkers such as Marcelino Menendez Pelayo, who in the late 19th century “exaggerated the reality of the religiosity of the Spanish people in order to confront the anticlerical liberals”.

and best of all..

There was little in the way of culture when it came to those who triumphed in the Spanish Civil War, with the exception of a handful of intelligent Falangists such as Jose Antonio [Primo de Rivera]. Nor did they expect to come to power, so they had to search the past for the essence of an ideology that didn’t exist. Franco had no ideology because he had no idea about anything.

Primo de Rivera would have made a far better post war leader of Spain. All Franco seemed to understand was money but with a name like Franco what would you expect? in Spain, Franco is regarded as a Jewish name. It means ‘tax free’ which was the status enjoyed by Jews who found favour with the Spanish court - they didn’t have to pay tax. There were persistent rumours that Franco was of a converso background through both his paternal and maternal lines.