A.P. photo/ Manu Fernandez, File/ Church once Great Mosque of Cordoba
Spain is close to the Islamic world, a gateway to Europe, and a connection with Latin America. Saudi Arabian businessmen plan to establish Spain as a hub of global Islamic finance (IMRA, 4/27/10).
Islamic rules of finance are laid down by Sharia, Islamic law. As I have reported, a speaker at a rally in New York explained that Sharia requires Muslim business to donate to charity, but these charities often are terrorist fronts. Does the Spanish government realize this? Does Spain know that Islamic doctrine holds that areas formerly conquered by Islam, including Spain, must be returned to Islam? The same goes for Israel, but the Spanish king, Barry Chamish points out, has been traveling all over for years, on missions to assist Muslim claims to Israel. He would be better advised to work with Israel to preserve his own country. His country faces not just a simple change of religion, as it would be for, say, leaving Catholicism and entering Protestantism, but a loss of freedom and all sorts of cultural restrictions.
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Sorry? I'm English but living in Madrid. Why is "Spain close to the Islamic world"? No more so than any other Western Europe country - 600 years ago in the south maybe,but not now. Please detail these "missions" Juan Carlos (that's the king here.You probably don't know) has been on. I'm not aware of anything. And if you're right about "Spanish lands to be returned to Islam",it's damn well not a day-to-day issue.
If you can't justify your comments, stop printing BS.
English: Jihad is a day-to-day issue, promoted by war, revolution, terrorism, subversion, and immigration. Each method is used as would be practical under the circumstances. I have seen enough mention of the lost Andulus, and reported some of it, to see that if jihad is not stopped, Spain's time will come. It is like Britain not feeling threatened by the Nazis, until Germany attacked Poland. It was almost too late.
Of course I know who the king is. Being insulting does not elevate you.
The conferences involving King Juan Carlos is not something whose dates and locations I keep track of, but there have been many in Spain and abroad, also by other Spanish officials, to discuss Jerusalem and the Arab-Israel conflict, from a pro-Arab point of view and not in open fashion. Someone who did keep track of them is Barry Chamish (Chamish@netvision.net.il).
The only reason I made a comment about the king's name is there was a dearth of facts in your article, and I wondered if you knew any. Your last comments don't add to the number of facts. If you continue to speculate you must expect more insults. Go to Granada, see the inter-cultural harmony, and tell me then that Spain has a problem. For example. And the fact you cannot support your comment about meetings between king and the Arab world with facts either-well. I repeat. No-one of intelligence wants to read your mierde. Deal in facts and show some proof of what you're saying, or STFU.
English ex-pat: You did not understand the article. I did not say that irredentism was an active problem in Spain. When I explained that some Muslims are now in the talking stage about it, and that jihad proceeds in different stages in different places, you still thought I was calling it an active problem. Then, because you misunderstood the article, you insulted. There is no need to insult when disagreeing. You missed the point that the time to think about problems is when they are small. I cited English history to that effect, thinking you would grasp the point.
You also do not comprehend the difference between proving something before, proving something again, and comments, after a report, from years of study about what I remember clearly. But to prove the itinerary of King Juan Carlos for a minor point does not pay , understand? That does not mean the King and Spain's then Foreign Minister did not have all those meetings on Jerusalem with the Vatican, the U.S., anybody.
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