Spain Rethinks Burning Effigies Of Muhammad

The Daily Telegraph... NY Sun ^ | October 3, 2006 | FIONA GOVAN

[george76]

Spanish villages are abandoning the centuries-old tradition of burning effigies of the Prophet Muhammad for fear of offending Muslims.

The annual festivals...feature locals donning medieval costumes to re-enact battles between "Moors and Christians" during the Reconquista period.

The fiestas celebrate events in 1492, when the Catholic kings of northern Spain defeated and expelled Islamic forces, ending more than 800 years of Moorish rule in the Iberian Peninsula.

Traditionally the festivities have culminated with the burning of mannequins of the Mahoma, a figure based on the Prophet Muhammad, to represent the final defeat of Islam in the region.

[mjp]

Spanish villages are abandoning the centuries-old tradition of burning effigies of the Prophet Muhammad for fear of offending Muslims

What has happened to their instinct for survival? They are doomed.

[monday]

"Spanish villages are abandoning the centuries-old tradition of burning effigies of the Prophet Muhammad for fear of offending Muslims."

Muslims aren't worried about offending Spanish villages. They will blow up trains and burn churches and not one of them will ever worry that it might offend Spanish villages.

This is why Spanish villages will die and Muslims won't. Muslims have balls and Spanish villages don't.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What's most incredible is this is NOT happening by accident. It is part of a carefully choreographed and planned effort by the European communists, marxists, neo-nazis, the decendants of the french vichy collaborators and others. The effort to really implant islam in Europe originated in the 1970s. Read Eurabia by Bat Ye'or for all the gory details about the Euro-Arab Dialogue. I promise it will make your stomach turn and your head sink.

[eyedigress]

[AmishDude]

And it's not a fear of offense, it's a fear of violence. We just ask that they be honest.

[woollyone]

"Read Eurabia by Bat Ye'or for all the gory details..."

URL to 2005 frontpage interview with Bat Ye'or...for the edification of others...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15044

[Defiant]

When you no longer believe in anything, it makes it harder to oppose those with strong beliefs. Real Christians in old Catholic Spain would have no trouble burning effigies of a phony prophet who spread much misery through the world. Even non-believers who believe in Spain and free market capitalism would not mind celebrating one of Spain's historical victories over the forces of evil. But the post-religious bohemians don't believe in anything except muddling through life, and so when faced with an implacable foe, they fold easily.

I'd like to see a "Red Dawn" movie that shows what an Islamic takeover of a western nation would look like. Maybe it would wake a few people up.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for the excellent link. She has a number of interviews on FrontPage.

Her books are somewhat tedious as they are filled with incredible detail to support her theses. But it is this detail makes them irrefutable. If you are easily bored by detail, you may not like her books. But if you try reading them, I promise she will scare the bejeebers out of you.

[Antoninus]

Wow. Spain should just cede all their land back to the Moors and commit suicide now, rather than committing a slow 20 year cultural suicide.

Europe is pathetic.

[Antoninus]

One day soon, the frog will be cooked.

No, the cowardly frog will grow a beard, don a turban, and start screaming "Allahu Akbar!" Mark my words. Rather than fight, the majority of Europe will simply convert to the dark side.

If you haven't seen the Christian holy places in Europe by now, go soon....

[woollyone]

Dealing along a similar topic and also a thoroughly detailed read, with 140 pages of bibliography, is FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL, by Joan Peters. She deals extensively with the allegations that Israel was "always" a mooselimb land and does an outstanding job of blowing that theory to morsels.

Highly recommended.

[Revenge of Sith]

At least the Muslims would ban abortion and gay marriage and restore the death penalty...so it won't be all bad when Europe falls;-)

[BenLurkin]

Bump for a conservative remake of "Red Dawn" featuring Islamofacists as the occupying tyrants!

[george76]

The liberals are like deer looking into the headlights of a truck...

[george76]

The Spanish should start wearing burkas

[george76]

The same happened in Turkey after the muzzies took over.

The original Christian churches are museums or mosques now.

[george76]

[george76]

[george76]

[Defiant]

Call it "Green Sunset".