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Thanks neverdem.[Cordoba] was founded by Romans and remained Western in some sense until conquered by Muslim invaders in 711, when it soon became a capital of what Muslims called al-Andalus, the Islamic foothold in southern Europe... The president's Cairo speech cited Cordoba... ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance: We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition"), but that was mostly therapeutic myth-making: Cordoba had been captured in the first wave of the Reconquisita in 1236, and most of its Muslim population had fled, been converted, or forced out more than two-and-a-half centuries before the Inquisition even began. But even before then, the once-cosmopolitan Cordoba -- as handed down from the overtly homosexual and enlightened Al-Hakam II -- was already in decline due to serial assassinations, court coups, and increasing Islamic intolerance for freedom of thought and expression outside the boundaries of the Koran.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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I will be very happy when one day those minarets are torn down and the Hagia Sophia is once again a Christian church.
It certainly has a strong historical precedent!