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Despite the best efforts of their craven elites and the politically correct establishment, the Spanish are not all ready to deny their history and culture. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Susan:
St James the Moor Slayer, Spain's patron saint, has notched up another victory.Church officials have been forced to overturn a decision to remove a statue of the saint from the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain.
The statue, an 18th-century work by Jose Gambino which depicts St James on a white charger hacking off the heads of Moors beneath his rampant mount's hooves, was deemed to be offensive to Muslims.However a spokesman for the church, which is Christendom's third holiest site after Rome and Jerusalem and attracts half a million pilgrims each year, said yesterday that, due to public anger over the proposed move, the statue will now remain in place.
"It is still here on the same spot. It is not going anywhere," a spokesman for Alejandro Barral, the president of the cathedral's art commission, said. "We have decided that the statue of St James will stay in the cathedral. There is no reason why it should be removed in the near future. For the moment the debate over its future has been suspended."
The Spanish press reported that terrorist bomb attacks on Madrid trains in March had precipitated the withdrawal of the statue.
The Spanish national newspaper, El Mundo, said: "According to our sources the authorities fear that the image could attract the anger of the Arab world in a period of high tension."
The plan was to put the statue in a museum and replace it with a less provocative effigy, one of St James the Pilgrim.
The decision outraged Roman Catholics. One newspaper commentator dubbed it "political correctness gone mad". People gathered in strength to place flowers at the foot of the statue and newspapers published letters of complaint condemning the "intolerable heresy".
The announcement of the withdrawal was welcomed by the Muslim community as a "step towards peace" according to Houssam El Mahmoudi, the president of the Association of Moroccan Students in Santiago.
How about, as a step toward peace themselves, they root out the elements among Spanish Muslims that perpetrated the 3/11 Madrid train bombings, and that want to reestablish glorious Al-Andalus?
Posted by Robert at July 22, 2004 6:29 AM
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For being such barbaric illiterates, Muslims sure do appear to be easily offended. Illiterate Muslims having someone read the articles on Jihad Watch to them should realize that they cannot change past history. Losses were losses. Face truth for once in your lives instead of participating in the Islamic lie.
St. James is certainly a Saint. Whether Muslims like it or not doesn't matter a shread, idiots.
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at July 22, 2004 9:50 AM
The announcement of the withdrawal was welcomed by the Muslim community as a "step towards peace" according to Houssam El Mahmoudi, the president of the Association of Moroccan Students in Santiago.
"Step towards peace"? Is the muslim community of Spain presently at war with Spain?
Geoff
Posted by: Geoff at July 22, 2004 11:03 AM
And I had just written Spain off. . .
If it offends the delicate muslim senses, they should stay out of the cathedral.
at July 22, 2004 12:31 PM
I sent a letter to the Santiago Archbishop to ask for the keeping of the statue because is a part of our history and our national concieusness and this is important. Well, I am happy.
Posted by: Franze at July 22, 2004 1:09 PM
All Spain needs to do is remember its own history and revive the Reconquista. How else can the present generation of Spanish cowards redeem themselves and thus restore the honor that their ancestors bequeathed to them in 1492?
Posted by: Hulegu Khan at July 22, 2004 9:42 PM
Changing their government doesn't guarantee immunity from Bin Laden & Co. One thing in Spain's favour is they have managed to keep out Muslim hordes with more success than France.Correct me if I am wrong, but think that Spain with a popn of about 40 million only has 30,000 Muslims.Either my figures are wrong or Ferdinand and Isabella, aided by Spanish Inquisition did a better job than was thought...
Posted by: Morgane at July 22, 2004 10:48 PM
I can't say how much this news gladdens me. This has been a rare silver lining on an otherwise dark cloud. I have been a keen follower of the stuff that’s published here. While I agree with what Spencer has to say on most counts, it weighs me down sometimes that we, as Christians, will only sit and pontificate on how we can overcome this Islamofascist disease rather than doing anything concrete about it. Ferdinand and Isabella and El Cid, to name a few, did not wipe out the hated Moors from the face of Spain by writing soulful literature. They did so by returning the Moors their favor; they fought fire with fire.
If all they did was armchair theorizing, Europe would, today, have a historically Muslim country sitting uncomfortably next to them. Although with all the "political correctness gone mad" in Europe now, that day doesn't seem very distant.
My point is this: Christians need to take matters into their own hands. They kill one of us; we kill tell 10 of their prisoners in the prisons of Christian nations. That'll be taking the battle to the front. Its not justice as we have been taught to recognize, but extraordinary situations call for extraordinary measures. After all, the Wallachian prince Vlad Dracul didn't morph into the modern myth of Dracula for nothing. He beat the invading Turks at their own game of senseless cruelty. Every Turk soldier he captured, he impaled them. That put the fear of God into the hearts and minds of the Muslim Turks. And that's precisely what we need to do to the Muslims today.
Posted by: wiseandotherwise at July 23, 2004 1:24 AM
WISEANDOTHERWISE
Civilization is only a veneer upon the struggle for survival. Imprinted is our genes is the survival code.Hopefully we can continue with our
cozy lives where everything is PC Correct.If not,let us be fit and ready for action.Don't be depressed,we won before and we're gong to win this
battle.Dustbin Laden has actually done us a favour
because his 9/11 has alerted us to the danger under our noses, America and the West were sleeping,NOW WE ARE AWAKE...
at July 23, 2004 2:55 AM
Morgane:
I certainly hope that the west is awake; for the sake of Christendom, I sincerely hope so. Although from all the public statements of most of the leaders in the west, that is not the impression I get. Whole generations in the west has been raised in way too much political correctness to be able to recognize the enemy when its looking you in the eye. PC would have worked for the west if the enemy was playing by the same rules.
But here the west is faced with an enemy as subversive and primal as militant Islam. And very sadly, very few in the west want to be distracted by the truth. They're too comfortably ensconced in their post-Christian lives to want to be distracted by primitive forces that threaten the very heritage and foundation of the west. And that's a sad commentary of the times.
The Orthodox Christian world is probably is the only realm in Christianity that positively revels in its Christian identity and heritage; no apologies offered. Even Russia, with its colorful imperial past, feels no need to apologize for its past. And in the non-orthodox Christian world, we have folks bending over backwards to seek forgiveness for imagined slights; the apologies for the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition being classic examples. And compare this with the most successful experiment in imperialism EVER in human history: Islamic imperialism. have the Turks ever apologized for the Armenian genocide? For the mess they left behind with their forced conversions to Islam in the Balkans?
These are questions that require answers. And its imperative to ask Muslims these uncomfortable questions every time they point the finger at the so-called Christian imperialism.
Christians need to be educated about their rich history. And they need to ask these questions each time. Every time. Unflinchingly.
Posted by: wiseandotherwise at July 23, 2004 5:02 AM
WISEANDOTHERWISE
Remember World War2 when Europe was in denial and only a few brave,resolute souls started to prepare
for the inevitable? In reality,America and Europe
are in a much better position now militarily than then when European nations were actually disarming...Please be positive and know that you're NOT alone.Remember how Churchill's warnings
were dismissed as'warmongering' at the time but later he was proved to be 100% right.Am not too sure where you live...If it is New York or Madrid
can understand your forebodings...Chin up, there.
Sincerely
at July 23, 2004 6:40 AM
But Morgane the problem is that the enemy, muslims, are now PART of the armed forces. How many muslims are in the army, navy, airforce?
What if Bush brings in the draft? Will that include muslims?
at July 23, 2004 6:02 PM
We should celebrate St James the Moor slayers day every year. How about it?
Posted by: Voltaire at July 23, 2004 6:35 PM
Voltaire
Wish I was able to answer this one...If our Middle
Eastern friends have left Islam or are Atheists, think you can trust them.Practising Muslims...would have to be 'No.' Religion of Allah
clearly says that you give yourself entirely to
His will which means you don't recognise secular states or Democracy. Also, it is a Muslim's DUTY to kill Infidels and spread Islam !In my mind these are incompatible with norms of the West.
at July 23, 2004 6:40 PM
St James the Moor slayer's day is this sunday, July 25.
Let's all raise a glass this sunday to him.
Posted by: Voltaire at July 23, 2004 8:50 PM
Also remember that 10th October is the anniversary of The Battle of Tours/Poitiers. (It was fought between the two towns.)
If Charles Martel had not been victorious, then we may all be living under the sword of Islam now.
Posted by: Voltaire at July 24, 2004 4:47 AM
Also remember that 10th October is the anniversary of The Battle of Tours/Poitiers. (It was fought between the two towns.)
If Charles Martel had not been victorious, then we may all be living under the sword of Islam now.
Posted by: Voltaire at July 24, 2004 4:47 AM
Also remember that 10th October is the anniversary of The Battle of Tours/Poitiers. (It was fought between the two towns.)
If Charles Martel had not been victorious, then we may all be living under the sword of Islam now.
Posted by: Voltaire at July 24, 2004 4:47 AM
Also remember that 10th October is the anniversary of The Battle of Tours/Poitiers. (It was fought between the two towns.)
If Charles Martel had not been victorious, then we may all be living under the sword of Islam now.
Posted by: Voltaire at July 24, 2004 4:48 AM
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