Michelle Obama was paying homage with her presence to the Great Mosque at Granada,
which overlooks what was once Islam’s most important outpost in Europe, the Alhambra palace in Granada."
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Posted on 08/24/2010 12:03:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While President Barack Obama was “forcefully” endorsing the Ground Zero Mosque, Michelle Obama was paying homage with her presence to the Great Mosque at Granada, which overlooks what was once Islam’s most important outpost in Europe, the Alhambra palace in Granada.
There is no doubt about the influence of the Great Mosque of Granada overlooking Alhambra. One Spanish guidebook states that the Alhambra is to Granada what St.Peter’s is to Rome or St. Mark’s Square to Venice.
Michelle Obama and her nine-year-old daughter, Sasha, visited the Alhambra Mosque at dusk on the second day of her visit to Spain, one day after Barack had celebrated his 49th birthday without his family with Chicago friends.
Built in 2003, the Great Mosque in Granada, like the mosque planned in the shadow of Ground Zero, was born in controversy.
“The land on which the mosque has been built was bought 22 years ago, but city authorities continually objected to the planning proposals.” (Victory News Magazine, July 17, 2003). “When it was finally accepted that the land could be used for religious purposes, objections were raised to the layout of the building. Planners had to rethink the height and design of the building’s minaret but opposition to the scheme, which received financial backing from Libya, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco, gradually subsided.”
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You have my vote. We should spell their names the way they sound. Start a trend.
It’s a mosk.
He’s an E-mom.
I’m kinda partial to the Fr popular “moose-limbs”
I’ll bet we could go on for days.
I was wondering the same thing....what did she wear??
Isn’t that photo the Church (formerly a mosque from the Middle Ages) in Cordoba, not the mosque in Granada (built 2003)referenced in the story?
Love it! Don't stop! Here is an idea: publish a Redneck Guide to Spelling. I'd bet it would be a hit.
I thought it was in Seville.
Seville has the tower. Granada, the Alhambra. The Alhambra has the hand of Fatima over the entrance. It was surrendered by the Moors in 1492, to Ferdinand & Isabela. That year marks the return of Catholic Spain, Columbus & the leaving of the Moors in Spain. It’s actually a very big deal for them. I understand that within the last 2 years, the 1st mosque was established in Granada in 500 years.
Factoid of the day.
You’ve hit on something. The kh, gh and other variations, almost like an ‘rh’ including the a and glottal stop are used. You use the top of the back of the roof of your mouth, somewhere back around your tonsils, combinations of the above, and, more. The z also has variants, including something like ‘Gigi’
Another factoid for today.
Thanks Liz. Gee, what a surprise.
Here’s a few more.
Gee-hawed (think mules)
Hum-moss
Shake
Marter
Rom a don
Sharrhea
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