Posted on 06/23/2007 7:25:52 AM PDT by indcons
There’s amnesty and then there’s amnesty. It’s their own version of the U.S. “points system,” but with family unification teased out to about 25 generations and offered to members of a culture notorious for irredentism and violent expressions of, ahem, “dissent.”
What could go wrong?
A call for descendents of Muslims expelled from Spain in the seventeenth century to be given preferential terms for Spanish citizenship has highlighted the country’s uneasy relationship with its Islamic heritage.
The proposal was made at a meeting this week in Cordoba, a city in Andalusia which was the centre of Islamic civilization in the Iberian peninsula during nearly eight centuries of Moorish rule of much of what is now Spain and Portugal…
Giving them preferential terms for Spanish citizenship would be an act of symbolic reconciliation, said Mansur Escudero, head of Spain’s Islamic Board, the biggest group representing Spanish Muslims.
“The Andalusians who live in North Africa, most of them in Morocco, in Tunisia, in Libya, they’re part of those societies and aren’t going to want to come to Spain,” Escudero said…
Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492, already have a special right to obtain Spanish citizenship after two years legal residence in Spain, a privilege also available to citizens of Spain’s former colonies.
A small left-wing party, Izquierda Unida, has backed the call for preferential citizenship for descendents of Spanish Muslims. The governing Socialists, who have promoted an “Alliance of Civilizations” between the West and Islam, have yet to give their response, Escudero said.
It’s “symbolic” insofar as there’s no urgent need at the moment for large numbers to avail themselves of the right. Whether that’ll still be true in 10 years is another story. As for why a left-wing party would once again quarterbacking the drive to absorb a huge, unassimilated population, I really just don’t know. It must be a coincidence.
Amnesty !? Considering the procreation rate of Muslims in general, calling for ‘amnesty’ or whatever for everyone descended from 17th century Spanish Muslims is like saying ‘ok, everyone in North Africa, c’mon in’, this land is now yours.
How stringent will be the requirements to prove one's descent from one of the Moors who left Spain? Authentic documentation of each generation may be hard to come by.
As for why a left-wing party would once again quarterbacking the drive to absorb a huge, unassimilated population, I really just don’t know. It must be a coincidence.
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I’ll state the obvious and finish the thought — Libs/progs/Dems/Socialists need large segments of the voting population to be dependent on government aid — it helps them at the ballot box.
after the fast tract amnesty in spain....
here’s hoping for another charles martel to beat them back from the rest of europe....
oh wait...too late....they have already overrun france england and half os the scandanavian penninsula....
guess they soon wil be coming to cut off heads in towns near you!!!!
How come the Spanish aren’t demanding reparations instead of repatriation?
‘The Moors who left Spain’ — can we edit that please? “The Moors/ Muzzies whose hineys were kicked out of Spain, a country that was NOT THEIRS, by military might.” There, that’s better.
When this get ugly, it’s going to get REAL ugly...
Spanish suicide..
Spain is finished.
It’s just a matter of time.
20 years from now we will be fighting a world war to rescue europes miopic ass yet again from the enemy they invited within.
Amnesty? I’d call it cultural suicide.
because just like last time they (muslims) gain equipment, land, money and resources which they will then use to take over america. So it is better to go over blow the crap out of an enemy in a foreign land than to fight him on our door step.
Plus name the country in europe that doesn’t have nuclear arms that muslims voted into power could then use against us?
What happens in France in 20 years when there are elections and the fastest growing ethnic group in france is out producing muslim children to french children 5 -1? Are we going to let a muslim state possess the power of the military (regardless if it is french by nature)?
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