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Islamic State: “We Will Take Spain Back”

Aug 17, 2014 1:08 pm By Robert Spencer

This is because Islamic law dictates that any land that once was ruled by Muslims belongs by right to Muslims forever. “Expel them from wherever they have expelled you” — Qur’an 2:191

“Islamic State: ‘We Will Take Spain Back,'” by Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute, August 17, 2014:

Radical Muslims in Spain have launched a social media campaign aimed at generating support for the jihadist group Islamic State [IS].

The campaign involves posters that include images of famous Spanish landmarks and monuments emblazoned with Arabic slogans such as, “We are all the Islamic State” and “Long Live the Islamic State.”

One poster includes an image of the medieval Islamic Aljafería Palace in the Spanish city of Zaragoza and the black flag associated with the IS. Another uses an image of the famous La Concha beach in the Basque city of San Sebastián. Yet another includes an image of the statue of Jesus Christ on Monte Urgull in San Sebastián, with the Arabic words “Al-Andalus Country” instead of “Basque Country.”

A tweeted photo of an Islamic State supporter holding the IS black flag of jihad in front of Aljafería Palace in Zaragoza.

Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given to those parts of Spain, Portugal and France that were occupied by Muslim conquerors (also known as the Moors) from 711 to 1492. As the Basque Country is surrounded by mountains, however, the Moors never succeeded in occupying it.

The poster campaign comes after IS jihadists produced a video in which they vow to liberate al-Andalus from non-Muslims and make it part of their new Islamic Caliphate.

The video shows a jihadist speaking in Spanish with a heavy North African accent. He says:

“I say to the entire world as a warning: We are living under the Islamic flag, the Islamic caliphate. We will die for it until we liberate those occupied lands, from Jakarta to Andalusia. And I declare: Spain is the land of our forefathers and we are going to take it back with the power of Allah.”

Radical Muslims (and many moderate Muslims) believe that all territories Muslims lost during the Christian Reconquista of Spain still belong to the realm of Islam. They claim that Islamic law gives them the right to return there and re-establish Muslim rule.

In recent years, the return of “occupied” Al-Andalus to the fold of Islam has become an obsession for Muslims of all stripes, and calls to reconquer al-Andalus have become more frequent and more strident.

Commenting on the latest video, Spain’s Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez, said Spanish police were remaining “vigilant” in the face of a “grave” jihadist threat.

Meanwhile, Moroccan authorities have warned Spanish police that some of the more than 3,000 Moroccan jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq are beginning to return home, and that many of them are likely to attempt to infiltrate the Spanish mainland via the North African Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

The Moroccan Interior Minister, Mohamed Hassad, recently identified 1,221 Moroccan citizens who have joined jihadists groups in Syria and Iraq, as well as another 2,000 ethnic Moroccans who are citizens of other countries, including Spain.

Spanish and Moroccan counter-terrorism forces have stepped-up efforts to break up jihadist cells that have been proliferating in both countries.

On August 14, nine members of a recruitment cell for the IS were arrested in northern Morocco, not far from the North African Spanish exclave of Ceuta.

The arrests were made in the Moroccan cities of Fez, Tétouan and Fnideq, in what the Spanish Interior Ministry said was a joint intelligence operation between Moroccan and Spanish counter-terrorism police.

All the detainees are Moroccan citizens, several of whom made repeated trips to Ceuta to recruit jihadists and raise financial support for the IS.

“The jihadists recruited by the cell received instruction in weapons handling, assembly and placement of explosive devices and car theft, in order to participate in suicide terrorist attacks or to fight in conflict zones,” a statement by the Spanish Interior Ministry reported.

Some of those recruited by the cell are believed to have participated in beheadings in Syria and Iraq. Police say they are also examining computers and data storage devices to determine if there were plans to carry out a terror attack on Moroccan soil.

On August 4, a 19-year-old Spanish woman and a 14-year-old Spanish girl were arrested in Melilla just days before they were due to join the jihad in Syria. They are first Spanish females to be prevented from becoming jihadists.

“Both were trying to cross the border to Morocco with the aim of contacting the network that would move them immediately to a conflict zone between Syria and Iraq,” the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The 19-year-old was released after surrendering her passport. The 14-year-old—who police say appeared “completely convinced” that she was doing the right thing by becoming a jihadist—is currently being held in a juvenile detention center where she has no access to the Internet. The girl’s parents said she had recently become radicalized after spending time perusing jihadist websites.

In June, Spanish police in Madrid arrested ten individuals (eight Moroccans, one Argentine and one Bulgarian) on allegations that they were members of an international network that recruited jihadists for the IS.

The ringleader was a 47-year-old Moroccan national named Lahcen Ikassrien, who was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001, and released after three-and-a-half years in Guantánamo. In July 2005, the U.S. government handed him over to Spain, where he faced charges of cooperating with al-Qaeda. In October 2006, the Spanish High Court acquitted him on the grounds that no firm evidence existed of his ties to the terrorist group.

Ikassrien, who lives in Madrid, was part of a cell led by Abu Dahdah, a Syrian-born Spaniard sentenced to a 27-year prison term in Spain for his part in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and for being one of the founders of al-Qaeda in Spain. In February 2006, the Spanish Supreme Court reduced the Abu Dahdah’s penalty to 12 years because it said that his participation in the 9/11 conspiracy was not proven. He was released in May 2013.

In May, Spanish police broke up a cell in Melilla that allegedly recruited 26 jihadists (24 Moroccans and 2 Spaniards) for al-Qaeda groups fighting in Libya and Mali. All six members of the cell are Spanish citizens. One of them, Benaissa Laghmouchi Baghdadi, is the first Spanish jihadist known to have returned from the fighting in Mali. Police say the cell used social media platforms such as “Sharia4Spain” to recruit jihadists.

In March, police in Spain and Morocco arrested seven suspected jihadists who belonged to cell operating in the southern Spanish city of Málaga. Four of the suspects were arrested in Spain and the other three in Morocco. Spanish officials said the cell was one of the largest of its kind in Europe and responsible for recruiting more jihadists than any other network discovered in Spain so far.

The suspected ringleader of the cell is a wheelchair-bound Spanish convert to Islam named Mustafa Maya Amaya. Maya, 51, was born in Brussels after his Spanish parents moved to Belgium in the 1960s to look for work there. After converting to Islam, he changed his given name from Rafael to Mustafa.

Police say Maya—who maintained close ties to jihadist cells in Belgium, France, Indonesia, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey and Syria—is suspected of recruiting dozens of volunteer jihadists on the Internet and, after a careful selection process, sending them to join terrorist organizations in the Middle East and North Africa.

The sting operation was conducted on March 14, just three days after Spain marked the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and wounded nearly 2,000. Since then, more than 470 suspected Islamic extremists have been arrested in Spain, according to Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz.

“Clearly Spain forms part of the strategic objectives of global jihad,” Fernández Díaz said on the eve of the anniversary. “We are not the only ones but we are in their sights.”

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 1:22 pm

    It isn’t Spain that they want.
    They want a wide open border to immigrate and infiltrate into all other European countries.

    Apparently, their arms are so tired from swimming across the currents in the Straits of Gibraltar.

  2. somehistory says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    Police catch, judges release. Glad they caught the kid. She needs a good brainwashing to rid her mind of the thought that she actually wanted to be with the jihad terrorists.

  3. SpiritOf1683 says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    We forget our history. As far as things are concerned as regards ourselves, 1492 was more than 520 years ago. They don’t forget theirs, and 1492 is as fresh in their minds as yesterday is in ours.

    • TH says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 9:39 pm

      Exactly. They haven’t forgotten September 11, 1683 when they were routed at the gates of Vienna by the Polish troops under their heroic king Jan Sobieski who saved Central Europe from Islamic savagery, Of course, the French Sun KIng as well as the King of Prussia didn’t raise a finger to help prevent the taking of Vienna.
      How did they take Spain in the first place in 711? There was a civil war between two pretenders to the throne of Visigothic Spain and one of them invited the arabs to “help” him. They invaded the Penninsula and stayed almost 800 years. That was only the first Islamic invasion, as there were two more in the Middle Ages.
      1492, 1571 , The Battle of Lepanto and 1983 as well as 732, when Charles Martel stopped them in their attempt to take the rest of Europe. Of course, it was in 1492 that Columbus discovered America sent by Queen Isabella. Spain founded the first and second universities in America, in Lima and Mexico City, long before Harvard was founded or even than the arrival of British colonists in North America.

      • voegelinian says

        Aug 18, 2014 at 2:14 am

        Not to mention 1922 (when their perennial Caliphate was, for the first time in history, dismantled).

      • Semper Talis says

        Aug 18, 2014 at 6:46 am

        I only can support Your arguments, especially Your appraisal of King Jan Sobieski, who together with Marco D’Aviano saved Europe from beeing islamised.
        There is only one correction, though, i have to make:
        Back in 1683 there was no Kingdom of Prussia in existance. It did not enter history before 1701 when the Elector Frederick III. of Brandenburg – with the consent of the Emperor in Vienna and the Polish King – crowned himself king in the Eastprussian capital City of Königsberg (since 1945 part of Russia and renamed as ‘Kaliningrad’).
        Indeed his father, Frederick William – known to history as the ‘Great Elector’ – had no means to help in the liberation of Vienna 1683.
        But two years later, he sent the emperor 8000 soldierts to support the Austrians in the ongoing battles agaisnt the Turks on the Balcans !

  4. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    I have seen burnings of the U.S. flag, the Israeli flag and the flags of other nations. Has anyone ever witnessed a burning of the black flag of the Islamic State … you know, the flag under which thousands are being slaughtered?

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 2:18 pm

      Excellent point
      All the smug liberals should be lining up any time now to prove that they are not just weasel mouth hypocrites.
      anytime soon
      we will just wait a bit longer maybe.

      • Keith says

        Aug 17, 2014 at 6:26 pm

        Dont hold your breath!

    • VampireJack says

      Aug 18, 2014 at 3:01 am

      And what do you think the police would do if “we” were to burn that flag publicly?
      We’d be dragged down the slammer, pronto!

      Whereas the Union Flag, the Stars and Stripes, the flag of Israel?
      Burn all you want mate, it’s freedom of speech.

    • SKevin says

      Aug 18, 2014 at 7:56 am

      Actually, ISIS has burned Palestinian flags!

    • Petey says

      Aug 18, 2014 at 6:28 pm

      Of Course not, that would be a hate crime!

  5. Richie says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    How can they take back what was never theirs in the first place?
    Spain was and is Christian- the Muslim scum invaded, but were repelled

    • Januk36 says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 3:43 pm

      The post WW2 has been one of the most peaceful period in the history of Europe. For once it seemed that the continent was tired of butchering each other for good – enter the muslims.

      To pity, although I won’t probably live long enough to see the worst happening.

      On the other hand – the sooner the oil runs out the sooner this religion will be back in the junkyard of history again.

      • joeb says

        Aug 17, 2014 at 4:12 pm

        The peace europe has enjoyed since WWII is utterly exceptional in history. But europeans today think it’s normal, and that war is the exception. I’m afraid it’s the other war around.

        expect normal service to be resumed shortly.

        • voegelinian says

          Aug 18, 2014 at 2:29 am

          Not really; the latter half of the 19th century was the gold standard of an expansive peacetime (with minor burps here and there) — lasting all way to overlap a good fourteen more years across the fin du siècle divide clear up to the halcyon late spring of 1914, when a terrorist cell (with at least one Muslim member, by the by) succeeded in one of their plots, to assassinate the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    If the Moors head north into the peninsula again, one’s gotta ask why do it that way instead of just illegally immigrating and going on the welfare. It’d be easier, and a good ride until Spain goes broke, which appears certain to happen sooner or later.

    But if the Mujahadin *do* arrive with weapons to take the place, the Infidels there won’t put up much of a resistance. I don’t think they recovered their spirit after the first Moslem occupation.

    • DavidE says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 4:39 pm

      The Jihadis can smell weakness just as a shark can smell blood. The Jihadis see the West as weak. Regarding Spain, what matters now is that the Spanish bailed after one terrorist attack. That’s all that matters to the Jihadis. They see fear and they are going to pounce.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Aug 17, 2014 at 5:29 pm

        You’re right, of course.

        On a related note, a year or so back Spengler (who knows his economics) noted the salient fact that there are no great Spanish companies. This is not the case for other European countries. For example, Sweden, with a population of less that 10 million, has several, while Spain has none.

        To me, this indicates that the nation’s psyche never recovered from its Andalusian experience.

        • bernie says

          Aug 17, 2014 at 7:39 pm

          That’s true. They have the car company SEAT, but that’s just a branch of Italian Fiat company. Some Dutch and German companies do business there, but of course those are foreign and not Spanish brands.

          Strangely however, Spain supposedly had a GNP greater than that of all the Arab (though not as the Muslim) countries combined. That was back in the early 2000s though, it might have changed since then.

        • Angemon says

          Aug 17, 2014 at 8:07 pm

          bernie posted:

          “Strangely however, Spain supposedly had a GNP greater than that of all the Arab (though not as the Muslim) countries combined. That was back in the early 2000s though, it might have changed since then.”

          And when it comes to culture:

          http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/663.cfm

          “Interestingly, the report found that the total number of books translated into Arabic yearly is no more than 330, or one-fifth of those translated in a small country like Greece.

          Indeed, the total number of books translated into Arabic during the 1,000 years since the age of Caliph Al-Ma’moun [a ninth-century Arab ruler who was a patron of cultural interaction between Arab, Persian, and Greek scholars—WPR] to this day is less than those translated in Spain in one year.“

        • bernie says

          Aug 17, 2014 at 7:41 pm

          “ALL the Muslim…” I meant to write.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 17, 2014 at 8:14 pm

          bernie wrote:

          Strangely however, Spain supposedly had a GNP greater than that of all the Arab (though not as the Muslim) countries combined.
          …………………..

          This should not surprise, bernie.

          Spain may not be the most innovative of infidel countries, but it *far* outstrips the stagnant condition of most of Dar-al-Islam.

        • Januk36 says

          Aug 18, 2014 at 2:17 am

          “To me, this indicates that the nation’s psyche never recovered from its Andalusian experience.”
          —

          I grew up aware of some similarities between Italy and Spain although I always felt that there was some cruel, darker streak in the spanish culture that set it apart from the rest of Western Europe. I used to think as many liberals still do that islam was peaceful and the Spaniard were brutal conquistadores and my only excuse is that it’s human to fill ignorance with stereotypes. Knowing history better, imagining Spaniards co-existing alongside a Jihadi culture for centuries explains a lot when it comes to intolerance, conquering and subjugating peoples and the Inquisition.

      • AnneM says

        Aug 17, 2014 at 6:01 pm

        The only real strong western leader and right now things are pretty quiet and that is PM Bibi of Israel.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 6:10 pm

      Alarmed Pig Farmer wrote:

      If the Moors head north into the peninsula again, one’s gotta ask why do it that way instead of just illegally immigrating and going on the welfare. It’d be easier…
      …………………………..

      This is the “Fast Jihad” and the “Slow Jihad”, APF. Some Muslims consider the first more dramatic, and some consider it too rash, as it may arouse resistance from the Infidel; some consider the second smarter, and some consider it more cowardly…

      Of course, the goal is the same, either way.

      But chances are this is not either/or, in any case.

      If we don’t act to stop them, places like Spain may well be “softened up” by Muslim immigration, then subject to an actual invasion.

      One more point where this is not either/or—many of the immigrants are not just parasites, they are *also* violent.

      “Street Jihad”, campaigns of rape, riots and destruction, the creation of Muslim “No-Go Areas”, and violent Jihad attacks—all of these can be as devastating as any invasion.

      In the end, since so many of these Muslim immigrants are coming from North Africa to begin with, the distinct tactics you note may be a distinction without a difference—that no one may be sure when the mass-immigration ended and the actual violent invasion began…

    • Angemon says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 6:12 pm

      Alarmed Pig Farmer posted:

      “But if the Mujahadin *do* arrive with weapons to take the place, the Infidels there won’t put up much of a resistance. I don’t think they recovered their spirit after the first Moslem occupation.”

      APF, I don’t think that’s a very fair assertion. Not only they drove the muslims out of their lands, they also went toe to toe with the Ottoman empire for the title of super power of the Renaissance. During its golden age, Spanish territory included not only Spain but also parts of Italy and the Netherlands, not to mention Central and South America. And, of course, the south American gold was invaluable to finance the war against the Ottomans.

  7. Santiago says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 3:05 pm

    I’m tired of this people. As a Spaniard, I should say that Celts, Romans and Visigoths were in my country before this scum. The Arabs never got to mix with our people when we were subjugated to their tyranny and the few remaining after the end of the Christian Reconquista were expelled a little while later. Even nowadays, with Spain and other European countries flooded by Muslim immigrants, we won’t allow them to impose their insane and brutal habits. If they intend to conquer this land again, we will wait patiently for them caressing our guns.

    • paddy says

      Aug 18, 2014 at 3:24 am

      Well said…..’VIVA ESPANA’!

    • bernie says

      Aug 18, 2014 at 8:59 am

      The Jews were also in Spain before the Arabs, though Berbers may have been there before Arabs as well. (Most of the Berbers were forced to assimilate following the Arab invasion of the Maghreb).

      I saw a website called “Jew or not Jew?” which claims that up to 20 percent of all Spaniards have Jewish ancestry, because many Jews converted to the Catholic faith after 1492 so that they could stay in Spain. I think Portugal may have similar numbers as well.

  8. Ashley says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    Meanwhile… http://www.mvtimes.com/2014/08/17/obama-vacation-beat-saturday-august-17/

    • John C. Barile says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 9:35 pm

      Thanks, Aish-a–err, Ashley, for this important news update–the Leader of the Free World’s social, recreational, and fundraising activities–you heard it here, folks!

      • Ashley says

        Aug 17, 2014 at 10:48 pm

        LOL, John. I now live out here on the Vineyard and the nightmare is right in my face.

        I have to share the misery…

        Will keep you posted! I *think* Obama has a 10 AM bowel movement scheduled for tomorrow morning, but the detail has yet to be confirmed…

  9. Myxlplik says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 3:33 pm

    Message to the Spanish.

    When the Sunnis come to force your women and children into sex slavery, chop your heads off, and subjugate you are second class citizens, I’m sure Israel will sell you weapons.

  10. Nothosaur says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    Today is August 17. This is the birthday of John III Sobieski of Poland.

    http://josephpilsudski.com/polish-history-sobieski-and-the-siege-of-vienna_283.html

    It is no understatement to say that this man saved Western Civilization from a treacherous Muslim hoard.

    How is it humanly possible that Western Civilization does NOT remember and honor this man with yearly parades and celebrations?!?!?? Why was he NOT the subject of my studies in history class in high school??!?

    I am making his history required reading for my children.

    Without Sobieski actions, there would be no Mozart, no Blackstone, no Locke, hence no Jefferson, no Madison, et al. The devastating nature of the consequences are hard to calculate. The Ottoman empire was truly intent on conquering Europe, and very nearly did.

    Please, if you cherish your freedom, if you’ve ever sipped a cappuccino while listening to Mozart in the security of a free market system that is secured by a constitutional republic with democratically-elected representatives, then you owe it, fundamentally, to Sobieski. His actions were a foundational cause of the liberty that you enjoy. At least take a 1/2 hour of your day to read this:

    http://josephpilsudski.com/polish-history-sobieski-and-the-siege-of-vienna_283.html

    Here are some excerpts from the link (but, please read the whole article yourself!):

    Did you know…..

    Sobieski was fluent in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Turkish, and was an accomplished diplomat. He possessed immense military experience, and obtained most of his victories against numerically superior foes. In battle, he personally led his men, who adored him, and was second to none in bravery or killing prowess. His imposing physical presence and reputation commanded a respect that even partisans in the Sejm grudgingly acknowledged. He was a happily-married family man who wrote to his wife almost every day for 20 years.

    (Compare that to any modern leader of a Western Civilization…Cameron, Bush, Clinton, Blair, Obama, etc.)

    His amazingly timed (and urgently needed) rescue of Vienna was a stunning victory that sent shockwaves through the Muslim army, which was planning to tunnel under the walls of Vienna with explosives.

    Also, be sure to read the letter that Sobieski sent to his wife, written from the ruins of Kara Mustafa’s tent after the victory. (You’ll find it in italics about 3/4 of the way down)

    He genuinely believed that Western Civilization was threatened and was willing to risk his life in its defense.

    I have printed a t-shirt with his picture and name on it, and I wear it proudly every August 17, in gratitude to what he did to make my life wonderful.

    Why don’t you do the same? (Search google images for John III Sobieski. Choose a picture and make a t-shirt out of it at Vistaprint or some other such site.)

    The liberty-loving world needs to know about this hero, and honor him and what he did for us.

    • Michael says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 4:16 pm

      Excellent post, Nothosaur!

      There wasn’t just 1 hero (or battle) that saved Europe from muslim hordes. Nearly 950 years before the Battle of Vienna, Charles Martel saved Europe at the Battle of Tours in France. Without that European victory at Tours, John III Sobieski may never have had the chance to save Europe from the Ottoman Empire.

      • DavidE says

        Aug 17, 2014 at 4:50 pm

        History is not taught in our schools. Churchill in his books discussed Islam and said that for now, the West was safe because of science. But he clearly understood the history of Jihad and the Caliphate.

        He lived in a time when history was still taught. Before his notoriety, Osama Bin Laden probably could have gotten a job as a professor at most universities in this country. If a university has hired Bill Ayres, they would have hired someone with Bin Laden’s viewpoints.

        There are a lot of history teachers and professors with a Bill Ayres type of viewpoint. No discussion of the crimes of the Caliphate or slavery in the Caliphate. No discussion of wars started by the Caliphate. No discussion of how Sobiesky saved Europe from the Caliphate.

        • AnneM says

          Aug 17, 2014 at 6:07 pm

          Have hope, the good news is that most of these folks from this radical generation are now starting to retire hopefully, history, real history will be taught again.

        • DavidE says

          Aug 17, 2014 at 9:00 pm

          Not hopeful about the new generation of teachers and professors. Especially, the professors. Practically, the only way one can get published in so-called academic journals is to buy into politically correct nonsense. Does anyone get published by discussing the violence of the Caliphate and its history of conquest and slavery? Probably not. Anyone writing negative views about the Caliphate probably can’t get a job or published.

        • SpiritOf1683 says

          Aug 18, 2014 at 2:09 am

          Yep, the good news is they’re retiring, the bad news is they’re being replaced by those they taught.

        • Francesca G.K. says

          Aug 18, 2014 at 7:34 am

          I was in Krakow some years ago and started to look for a statue of their great Jan Sobieski. Somewhere in a square, in a park, there must be one for sure, I thought. Nothing. Then I walked around the glass-gallery in the main old town square, stopping at every tourists shop : not a single souvenir of king Jan Sobieski nor of his awesome Winged Hussars warriors … only Pope Wojtiya was there, over-represented, in all possible sizes and forms.
          7k

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 6:20 pm

      Thank you for this on Jan Sobieski, Nothasaur—and from Michael on Charles Martel.

      We also owe the brave Infidel fighters at the Battle of Lepantos—and all those brave infidels, known and unknown, who fought to save Europe from the ravages of the Mohammedan hordes down through the centuries.

      God knows we sorely need their like today.

      • John C. Barile says

        Aug 18, 2014 at 10:06 am

        And Jean de la Vallette, commanding 700 knights besieged at Malta in 1565–who prevailed over an Ottoman army of 30,000!

    • jay says

      Aug 18, 2014 at 4:26 am

      Wow, I had no idea. The more and more I learn about Islam the more and more I become convinced Mohammed (pee be upon him) was in fact the antichrist. I’ll share it on Tumblr, that site is full of Islamic apologist teenagers and I enjoy posting these kinds of things that are subtly anti-Islam. I post things about the Arab slave trade as much as I can, no one seems to know about it. Planting seeds of facts, no opinion attached. The truth really does speak for itself when it comes to this disease.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Aug 19, 2014 at 3:28 am

        Well done, mate; keep at it; Tumblir needs you.

        I have a teenage kid who reads Tumblir all the time.

        You might like to tell people about Saint Josephina Bakhita.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Bakhita

        She was black, from Darfur. In the mid-late 19th century Muslims raided her village, murdered her family, took her captive as a slave. She would have been raped. She was beaten, overworked, branded, tormented, abused, force-“converted” to Islam. Then, one day, the Italian consul in the Sudan bought her and she became a maid and nanny to his family (and *not* a sex slave). She was treated with kindness in that Italian Catholic household; and they took her back with them to Italy, where she became a free woman. She converted to Catholic Christianity and joined a convent, where she lived out the rest of her life in peace and charity, greatly beloved, dying in 1947.

  11. Angemon says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 5:43 pm

    In recent years, the return of “occupied” Al-Andalus to the fold of Islam has become an obsession for Muslims of all stripes, and calls to reconquer al-Andalus have become more frequent and more strident.

    Commenting on the latest video, Spain’s Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez, said Spanish police were remaining “vigilant” in the face of a “grave” jihadist threat.

    A few weeks ago I saw an interview with General Sanz Roldán, the director of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (Spanish Intelligence). He was asked about the caliphate and what he was doing regarding islamic terrorism. His reply was along the lines of Martínez’s, that they were keeping an eye on it, but before saying that he hesitated and said that for years they had focused on investigating homegrown terrorism, not because they wanted to, but because they were told to do so by the government.

    “Clearly Spain forms part of the strategic objectives of global jihad,” Fernández Díaz said on the eve of the anniversary. “We are not the only ones but we are in their sights.”

    Of course you are on their sights. The keyword here is “global”.

  12. gravenimage says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 5:53 pm

    Islamic State: “We Will Take Spain Back”

    This is because Islamic law dictates that any land that once was ruled by Muslims belongs by right to Muslims forever.
    …………………………………..

    Very true—and this means not just Spain, but Portugal, Sicily, Greece, the Balkans, and parts of France, southern Italy, and Eastern Europe.

    More:

    The video shows a jihadist speaking in Spanish with a heavy North African accent…
    …………………………………..

    And now Spain—along with every other country in Western Europe—has foolishly let the barbarians within the gates Suicidal madness…

    More:

    “I say to the entire world as a warning: We are living under the Islamic flag, the Islamic caliphate. We will die for it until we liberate those occupied lands, from Jakarta to Andalusia. And I declare: Spain is the land of our forefathers and we are going to take it back with the power of Allah.”
    …………………………………..

    Some might be confused by the inclusion of Jakarta—isn’t Indonesia already Muslim? Yes—but it is not *islamic enough* for the most pious Muslims, just as the countries that the Islamic State was carved out of—Syria and Iraq—were oppressively Islamic, but still not Islamic enough for the truly devout.

    And so we see a two-pronged approach—for Muslims to overwhelm the Infidels in Dar-al-Harb—especially places that had been won back from the Muslim hordes like Spain—and to further Islamize those places that are already part of Dar-al-Islam.

    And the upshot of this will be, of course, more and more bloody savagery and suffering—which is all Islam brings, wherever it goes. *Ugh*.

    • AnneM says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 6:12 pm

      Simply doing what their “god” tells them to do, as the enemy was thrown out of Heaven by God and the angels, so the enemy tries to get back at the real God.

    • Champ says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 6:57 pm

      “…and this means not just Spain, but Portugal, Sicily, Greece, the Balkans, and parts of France, southern Italy, and Eastern Europe.”

      Great comment, Gravenimage …and their longterm goal is to subdue the *entire* world under islam.

      And some of our world leaders may think that we are not at war with islam, but islam and company certainly are at war with the world.

    • Wellington says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 7:02 pm

      Your post, gravenimage, effectively speaks to the overwhelming control-freak aspect of Islam. Islam is so objectionable, and in so many ways, but it’s control-freak characteristic is just about the most annoying of them of all (minus, of course, the death and actual destruction stuff which is REALLY annoying).

      Control freaks, who really no one can entirely avoid as they make their way through life, are a bane to one’s existence to be sure. But with Islam, you have a whole God-damned religion which is mega control-freakish many times over——-with regard to sexuality, women’s proper attire, what one can say or not say, what religion one can convert to or give up, etc.

      Islam is disgusting and repulsive in sundry ways, but I submit that it’s control-freak element, including of course for real estate, is right up there at the top of the list of why Islam is the turd in the punch bowl of world religions. (I like thinking of Islam as something defecated. Better that way I would argue. Puts things in proper perspective and all that.)

      Hope you are doing well this August, gravenimage. Good to know you’re consistently here at JW. Take care, my West Coast friend, said salutations extended by this East Coast friend of yours.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 8:23 pm

      Thanks Anne, Champ, Wellington, and Ashley.

      And Champ, you are right—Muslims want to subdue the *entire* world—but they are, of course, especially crazed about retaking places that have escaped their grasp.

      And yes, I’m doing well—hope you guys are, too.

  13. Apollospeaks says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    LET ME UNDERSTAND THIS:

    Islam is going to take back Spain, a predominately Roman Catholic country of 46 million people with a miniscule Moslem community of less than 1% when they can’t take back Israel which is 16% Moslem of 8 million people? If Allah is ignoring Moslem prayers to reconquer Israel (its been 66 years now) why should he listen to prayers about Spain which has been free from Moslem rule for centuries?

    Click my name for some very good stuff.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 18, 2014 at 12:03 am

      The Arab Spring is falling apart.
      Most Muslims realize that Islam is a pile of shit but are afraid to admit it publically.

      • voegelinian says

        Aug 18, 2014 at 2:45 am

        If by “falling apart” you mean it’s careering centrifugally out of control in a metastasis of a global revival of jihad that threatens the world more and more, like a forest fire unchecked, I agree.

        • ApolloSpeaks says

          Aug 18, 2014 at 8:04 am

          Perhaps, hopefully, this global upsurge is the last hurrah of violent Islamic supremacism before it expires. But it just might be a long and bloody last hurrah which we need to fight with all our might leaving nothing to chance.

  14. Aion says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 11:09 pm

    They prove the neccesity of the Inquisition. Spain does not belong to them, they are not oppressed and refugees – they were invaders and occupiers and had no right. If it comes to it again the next Inquisition will be justified with ANY measures it must take.

  15. Krew's aider says

    Aug 18, 2014 at 5:18 am

    On a related note, some US dhimmi prof is claiming the CIA is behind IS!!! Guess we should expect nothing less.

    See Rianovosti (my phone can’t Copt the bloody fb link)

    The Europa Point saudi megamosque in Gib had 2 worshipers at afternoon prayers when I passed last week. The La Linea mosque is a grim and anonymous edificio at the top of Avenida Kiosko and was full of around 30 worshipers last Friday noche.

    Both Gib and Spain are massively Catholic, and have a very bad attitude towards anyone trying to interfere wid their considerable freedoms. I hope the populations become armed like the Swiss and US fast.

  16. NDB says

    Aug 18, 2014 at 5:48 am

    This will give King Barry someone else to ignore and I guess all vineyards will be forced to use plastic corks. Who would lift a finger to help them… Germany?

  17. duh_swami says

    Aug 18, 2014 at 6:04 am

    Allah gave the planet to Mahoundians, so complete ownership is an entitlement. Because Mahoundians are supremacists, every piece of land they ever stepped on is theirs and they rule it, as long as they are on it. Spain is just one piece of land due for repossession. All kuffar everywhere are squatters and will be evicted as soon as Mahoundians can get around to it.

    • bernie says

      Aug 18, 2014 at 9:13 am

      Wait, though. How can they claim vast tracts of China, the U.S., the Philippines and other countries which have been defiled by pig farming? China is the world’s largest consumer of pork, and much of its land has been trodden upon by swine (in fact, the reason why SARS was so feared was because in China, it’s common for farmers to sleep in rooms close to livestock, such as pigs, cows and chickens, which can then act as vectors, mixers and incubators for new viruses, which can then be passed on to humans).

  18. Asturiano says

    Aug 18, 2014 at 3:30 pm

    “As the Basque Country is surrounded by mountains, however, the Moors never succeeded in occupying it.”

    Is that a joke?

    “Basque Country” is a modern political concept that didn’t even REMOTELY exist back then. What existed was the Kingdom of Asturias, which comprised a lot more territory than that of the Vascongada Provinces (which is a much older, non-political concept that didn’t exist back then either), now known as “Basque Country”. Even freshmen highschool students know these simple facts…

  19. Thomas Wells says

    Aug 18, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    Wear :” Celebrate el Cid day” t-shirts.

    • Lily says

      Aug 20, 2014 at 3:38 pm

      My brother named his son after El Cid.

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