Posted on 04/21/2004 2:07:51 PM PDT by clintonbaiter
In making that choice, Spanish voters have given radical Islamists (not to be confused with the religion of Islam itself) a symbolic triumph of monumental proportions -- and all it took was the detonation of a dozen or so backpack bombs. In the minds of the murderous jihadi fundamentalists, the swift capitulation of Spain has to be seen as a historic moment in their struggle to reverse the centuries-old humiliation of the "Reconquista" -- the reconquest of what is now Spain and Portugal by Christian forces several centuries after the Moorish invasion in 711 had extended Islamic rule to most of the Iberian peninsula.
The Reconquest -- which culminated in the expulsion from Spain of the last of the Moorish rulers in 1492 -- has long been a festering sore in the minds of Islamic fundamentalists, who have nurtured hopes for hundreds of years of reversing its effects. Osama bin Laden has made it clear that he wants Muslim rule restored in Spain. And whether or not Al-Qaeda is ever officially implicated in the bombings, the Spanish election certainly has to represent a major first step toward that goal in the eyes of today's radical Islamists.
And now that the Spanish have blinked, how long can it be before Osama & Company make good on their often-expressed desire to impose a Muslim hegemony over the rest of Europe, Asia, and even North America? ...
(Excerpt) Read more at iconoclast.ca ...
Yes, this is a crucial American election coming up, a pivotal point in history.
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