There is a concerted and ongoing effort to make Westerners ashamed of their history and heritage. And we have seen this kind of revisionism in museums before — here is one example from Florida. Once few people, if any, in the West value their own cultural identity, they won’t lift a finger to defend it.
“Spain: Historical revisionism at Alicante Museum whitewashes Islam/demonizes Spaniards in medieval history section…….,” Tundra Tabloids, September 15, 2017:
This past week I was in Spain on vacation, and while I was there I happened to visit the Museum of Archaeology of Alicante, and it’s really a stunning site.
What caught my eye however was the section on medieval history of the region, which was a total whitewash of Islamic conquest and rule. So much so that I had to (after asking permission) take photos of the section to let my readers see and decide for themselves as well, if this is pure historical revisionism. This really is a travesty of justice for the indigenous people of Spain during that time period, who were brutally taken over by Muslims hot on the jihad trail from North Africa, and subjected to their cruelties, for over 600 years.
Here are some pictures from the section in question, the museum was predominantly in Spanish and Catalonian, with English excerpts, So I can’t tell you what it spoke about in Spanish, but the excerpts in English were horrid.
First about Islam:
Take note that it mentions that the koran IS the word of God as revealed to Mohamed, not ”the koran is according to Muslims the word of God”. That’s a big difference.
Then Christianity…
Nothing about the Bible being the word of God….and again, no mention of how those Muslims got there in the first place. Jews had immigrated there over the centuries, while the Muslims invaded, the latter were justifiably evicted, while unfortunately the former got caught up in the midst of the overthrow, upheaval and reconquering of the land and expelled as well.
Then about the period in question, how Islam came to the Iberian peninsula:
The Muslims arrived and settled? Really? What about jihad, war of conquest and subjugation of the nonbeliever? Dhimmitude and slavery…?
Spain under Islam:
No mention of subjugation (dhimmitude) of non-believers:
Then when Spain regains sovereignty under Christian Spanish rule, they make the indigenous Christian population into colonizers/settlers!!
You know its bad when a country once conquered by Islam, refers to itself as settlers.
(Seeing that the font is hard to read, I’ll type it here)
The monarchy expelled the Moslems who had lived there for nearly six centuries, expropriating their belongings and handing over their lands and houses to the settlers.…
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Fitzgerald’s an expert on fake history, he should do an essay on this. So the Spaniards had been there for thousands of years, then the Moslems came across the strait to mass murder and take over, and now the Spaniards are settlers and the interloper mass murderers are the indigenous. Fake history is worse than fake news cuz at least you can believe your eyes on current events.
Santa Voorhees says
Notice also that they can’t even spell Mohamed correctly.
libertyORdeath says
Mohamed is simply one of the ways to write the false prophet’s name with our alphabet.
There is no larger colonial empire left in the world today than the remnants of the Muslim conquests. However, they are rarely if ever seen this way. We are constantly having the lie of Islamic progress shoved down our throats despite all the evidence to the contrary. I mean seriously, they are giving them credit for introducing irrigation to a place that saw the agricultural revolution come millennia before Muhammad’s schizophrenic hallucinations.
It’s actually not that surprising and will only get worse if we don’t do something soon.
For example just try to find out ANYTHING about pre Islamic Arabia…they have been masters of the destruction and rewriting of history. From the usurpation of the kaaba and Mecca from a flourishing pagan Arabian culture to the destruction of places like Palmyra, thousands of Christian and Buddhist temples and monuments like the Bamiyan Buddhas, muslims have shown that they are more than willing to destroy anything they want and simply replace it with a false history.
Santa Voorhees says
Agree with everything you said. But I doubt that whoever wrote that garbage in the museum is muslim. Could be a leftist.
By the way, I think you didn’t understand my point about Mohamed. I mean… just look at the third image of this post..
gravenimage says
Yes–there are over a dozen ways to spell the “Prophet” of Islam’s name.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Transliterations from one phonetic systems are never systematic. I can spell Mohammad anyway I like – it is just as valid as any other transliteration. Some people write ‘uhmah’ and others ‘uma’. Both can be used.
Shazza says
I like Mo-ham-head.
Kenneth Sikorski says
I really did have to take a double-take at what I saw….unbelievable.
sinantara says
What was the massacre of Tours? It was when the Islamophobe commander of the fascist Frank state massacred Arab and Berber migrants who came to France to escape war and poverty in North Africa. The far right author Gibbon called this the salvation of white domination of Europe…
Matamoros says
WTF??? Stop writing cheap ass nonsense
Mockingjay says
This nonsense is called satire.
MacUalraig says
Get a grip.
gravenimage says
Guys, Mockingjay is right–this is satire from sinantara–and very funny satire, as well. That’s why I use the “sarc” tag if I’m being ironic.
carpediadem says
“now the Spaniards are settlers and the interloper mass murderers are the indigenous. ”
What’s new about this ? They refer similarly to Jews in Israel – as settlers – and to Muslim (“Palestinian) interlopers as indigenous..
In Islamic eyes, all nonMuslims are setttlers and all lands belong by right to Islam.
gravenimage says
True–especially lands once under the heel of Islam. Muslims never want anyone to escape them.
Vitaly Citovsky says
so now u r upset? but this is what muslims and many others has said about jews who returned to their ancestral homeland and have been branded settlers.
mortimer says
THE SOUTH OF SPAIN HAD NO CHRISTIANS AND NO CHURCHES in it. The Muslim invaders had virtually exterminated the inhabitants and purged all the monuments of Roman and Visigothic high culture. They had removed almost all reminders of the original Spanish inhabitants. There are no churches in the south of Spain that were built before the Reconquest.
gravenimage says
Your implication that Jihad Watch does not support Israel is utterly mistaken.
Santa Voorhees says
History is an inconvenient truth so of course they need to rewrite it in order to suit their pathetic narrative.
Utterly disgusting! Spaniards better demand a correction from the museum. Now.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
In today’s scene, there is no Pope Urban II to cow the Infidels into self-interest. Would there be one, he’d be denounced as a religious bigot and laughed off the world stage. The laughter would not be of humor, but of derision. The ideology would not be of self-interest, but of self-delusional projection.
mortimer says
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Darío Fernández-Morera
Quotes: The existence of a Muslim kingdom in Medieval Spain where different races and religions lived harmoniously in multicultural tolerance is one of today’s most widespread myths. University professors teach it. Journalists repeat it. Tourists visiting the Alhambra accept it. It has reached the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, which sings the virtues of the “pan-confessional humanism” of Andalusian Spain (July 18, 2003). The Economist echoes the belief: “Muslim rulers of the past were far more tolerant of people of other faiths than were Catholic ones. For example, al-Andalus’s multi-cultural, multi-religious states ruled by Muslims gave way to a Christian regime that was grossly intolerant even of dissident Christians, and that offered Jews and Muslims a choice only between being forcibly converted and being expelled (or worse).”1 The problem with this belief is that it is historically unfounded, a myth. The fascinating cultural achievements of Islamic Spain cannot obscure the fact that it was never an example of peaceful convivencia.
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How then can one explain the persistence of the belief that Andalusia was a land of peaceful coexistence? The historian Richard Fletcher has attempted one possible explanation: “[In] the cultural conditions that prevail in the West today the past has to be marketed, and to be successfully marketed it has to be attractively packaged. Medieval Spain in a state of nature lacks wide appeal. Self-indulgent fantasies of glamour…do wonders for sharpening up its image. But Moorish Spain was not a tolerant and enlightened society even in its most cultivated epoch.”34
Another explanation could be what one might call Spanish self-hatred, the obverse of what once was Spanish self-aggrandizement. Such a view allies itself effortlessly with many non-Spaniards’ hatred of CatholicSpain, in an attitude that sooner or later brings up Las Casas’ condemnation of the Spanish conquest of the Americas—while ignoring the question of why there was not an English, Dutch, or French Las Casas to criticize the English, the French, and the Dutch. As if these nations carried out conquests that left undisturbed the native populations of their colonial lands.
A more convincing explanation may be that extolling al-Andalus offers the double advantage of surreptitiously favoring multiculturalism and deprecating Christianity, which is one of the foundations of Western civilization. This mechanism is not unlike that in the mind of those who dislike Western culture intensely, but who with the fall of Communism find themselves without any clear alternative and so grab Islam as a castaway grabs anything that floats. So anyone who dislikes Western culture or Christianity—for any reason, be it religious, political, or cultural—goes on happily pointing out, regardless of the facts, how bad Catholic Spain was when compared to the Muslim paradise.
Vic says
Mortimer,
I just saw your post tracking on the same book I posted…. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Spain, its people, my grandparents who escaped to America in the 1500’s tell stories of having gone through the “culture of forgetting”… we used to call it “the time when we were slaves”, but we learned to repress our anger and even adapted to prosper in that culture, we made the best of it… it was a shameful time, but we survived and now it is time to make our history into a myth of our liking…and if we repeat it enough times to the generations to come, it will become truth and we will be able to forget our shame”…
Islam has inflicted such trauma upon others…and it continues to this day…
gravenimage says
Good posts.
Kay says
The false history is repeated so often, most people don’t know otherwise.
I just looked up the Mezquita (in Córdoba). Wikipedia writes the same way, ignoring the Muslim conquest that allowed the mosque. But you can still see some of the original church that the mosque replaced.
Had I known there would be aims to rewrite history, I would have worked harder to learn it.
Vic says
Growing up I went to an American Elementary and Secondary School in Latin America. We studied American and World History as well as of course, Spain’s History, in depth. No revisionism. The good, the bad and the ugly. I came to university in the States and later emigrated and married.
Imagine my surprise when my children brought home from school history text books and I saw the narrative on the Golden Era of Andalusia due to the Moorish influence. I thought, when did THAT happen?? Big lies even in Spanish textbooks. What cowardice and whitewashing of the truth even in academic circles! Listen to these comments:
“Muslim rulers of the past were far more tolerant of people of other faiths than were Christian ones. For example, al-Andalus’ multi-cultural, multi-religious states ruled by Muslims gave way to a Christian regime that was grossly intolerant.”–The Economist
“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it the history of Andalusia.” –Former Pres. Barack Obama 🙁
“The new Islamic polity [in Spain] not only allowed Jews and Christians to survie but, following Qur’anic mandate, by and large protected them.” –Yale University professor, Maria Rosa Menocal–
in 2016 I came across a scholar by the name of Dario Fernández-Morera who wrote an extremely well-referenced book drawing on an abundance of primary resources that scholars have ignored, as well as archaeological evidence only recently unearthed. Finally somebody has taken the time to unbiasedly re-assess this time period to right the wrongs and set the record straight.
Title: The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain.
You can find it on Amazon. Well worth the read and the money. He also has given several interviews to discuss his book. You can find them on YouTube.
This is what Fernández-Morera says, “Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—“Al-Andalus”— as a multi-cultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a Myth.
This supposed beacon of peaceful coexistence began, of course, with the Islamic Caliphate’s conquest of Spain. Far from a land of tolerance, Islamic Spain was marked by religious and therefore cultural repression in all areas of life and the marginalization of Christians and other groups—all this in the service of social control by autocratic rulers and a class of religious authorities.”
Daniel Pipes, Publisher of ME Quarterly and historian of Islam had this to say: “Fernández-Morera takes on the long-overdue topic of assessing medieval Muslim Spain’s reputation for ethnic pluralism, religious tolerance, and cultural secularism. Finding this view based on a ‘culture of forgetting’, he documents the reign of strict sharia in Andalusia, with its attendant discrimination against non-Muslims and subjugation of women. So much for the charming fantasy of open-mindedness and mutual respect.”
libertyORdeath says
Oh yeah, they’re real tolerant…as long as you completely submit to their supremacy, follow sharia law, pay the jizyah, allow your women to be taken as slaves to pump out the next generation of intolerance, and basically kiss their ass whenever possible.
Now how they convinced free, modern westerners to believe this garbage is what confuses me. I guess the old adage is true – IGNORANCE IS BLISS (until someone blows you up or saws your head Off or gang rapes you)
RDG says
Don’t forget they invented the eunuch to serve the harem. They were real enlighted and advanced. Moslems have given the world so much.
John S. Obeda says
The world does not want the truth. And God bless us to want it and to spread it when we learn it and to suffer the consequences when we do so. Why bother? Because we love the truth and especially because we love the Truth (Jesus).
gravenimage says
Yes–children are now being indoctrinated in these lies. Suicidal insanity.
Jaladhi says
This kind of lying is going on allover the West and even in India and other Eastern countries where Muslims are citizens. Why are we afraid to tell the truth and real history and are writing revisionist history! This will not end well for us!
Michael Casmer says
Did they ever hear of a guy called “El Cid”?
Jack Holan says
Outrageous! Yet this revisionism has and is taking place here. When was the last time you’ve seen WW2 Movies filmed during the war through the mid-70s where real life language Jap, Nip Kraut Jerry were used. Johnny Weissmuller movies of Tarzan have disappeared I’m sure because of the African duplication of Black albeit that these movies were filmed in the 30s/40s. This is just in the film industry. Go to a Big City Museum of History. It’s an eye opener. The Coup de Grais go to a University Book Store peruse the texts used for World, American History Politics even Geography. Don’t grind your teeth too hard!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
What Alicante Museum needs is Dr. Bill Warner dynamic battle map. I’m sure if they asked permission, he would let them use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo
Avenger says
Besides forcing more than one million Europeans into slavery, Muslims also murdered 25 million men, women and children throughout Europe during their jihads.
Our pope and western leaders ( including Trump ) seem to not know this. Strange how this history was never in my school text books.
gravenimage says
Spain: Alicante Museum whitewashes Islamic conquest, calls indigenous Spaniards “settlers”
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More suicidal self-hatred and revisionist history.
Baucent says
Revisionist history that’s laughable if it wasn’t so deceptive. My favorite:
“TRIBAL SOCIETY
The moslems who arrived in the eighth century settled in small tribal communities in order to collect taxes established by pacts”
INTERPRETATION; The moslems invaders imposed a tax on Christians simply for being infidels, the pact was pay up or die.
The bit about moslem Agriculture is nonsense as well. Spain had been a province of Rome for 400 hundred years and it was the Romans who were the experts at water engineering and irrigation. Their Aquaducts are everywhere. Anything the Moors knew they borrowed from North African Romans.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Baucent.
billy charisma says
its all funny as fuck, who conquered and who took back etc, i am most certainly NOT a fan or supporter of islam, but i think you will find it was a geographical conquest, based on similar reasons as those conquests by romans, vikings, portuguese etc, they wanted land and goods, they just happened to me muslim which was a new religion in the 7th century, remember there were people in spain pre christianity and the christians “conquered” by sending preachers (with a big army) to convert.
gravenimage says
Yeah–Muslims just “happened” to conquer Spain and oppress the Infidels there for the next several hundred years…sarc/off
And your claim that peaceful preaching is exactly the same as violent conquest is just ludicrous.
LR says
The Muslims ‘expanded’ into Europe, as well as all those other lands…
The word ‘expansion’ was used in an interview on a program talking about Arab Muslim history. The interviewer didn’t say a darn thing, and the word ‘expansion’ hit my brain like a flashing red light.
I wrote the radio station, regarding that ‘expansion’ thingy. It was the least I could do.
Arjay says
This does not surprise me at all. The same has happened with even the modern 20th century history of Lebanon. This mostly Christian nation began taking in muslim refugees for humanitarian reasons. THe muslim numbers grew…. leading to more and more immigrants and waves of illegal muslims pouring into little Lebanon. Then like any other place where muslims get a large minority or the majority they over tool the country. By the early 1980s after years of Civil War between the Christians and the muslim illegal interlopers…. the Christian President Gemayel “ruled” over just a few miles of a Beirut turned to rubble. Then he was assassinated. And that is how Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East became a hell hole.
And now? Most Lebanese Muslims will swear up and down that in regard to Lebanese history…. the muslims have always lived there and always in the majority.
There are other counties the muslims have done this to in the present- such as the Rohingya muslims from Myanmar…. who are illegal immigrants swear they are the native Burmese. Ditto for muslims in Central Africa, southern Africa, Eastern Europe, Cyprus and elsewhere.
I am an American Indian and know persons of Indigenous heritage from other countries. Whether its with my fellow American Indians in the USA or Canada…..Aboriginals in Australia or Maori in New Zealand or native people in other parts of America (like Native Hawaiians in Hawaii)…. there are muslims who say they and their twisted islamic death cult were in these regions before the Indians, Hawaiians,, Aboriginals, Maori, etc. AND that these ethnic groups were early converts to islam.
I’m totally serious. Which as an American Indian who tries to learn as much about my tribal heritages as I can…. I never remember ANY Elder or culture bearer for the tribe mention muslims. We have mentioned the English, French…. Dutch and Spanish…. but not the muslims. And NO story or legend or teachings that have come down to us through the generations EVER mentions a “Faima” or “Achmed” or “Farouk.”
Sad are the Spaniards who see this garbage in their museums. Sad are the Lebanese school children who are taught in schools that islam has always been dominant in Lebanon… and sadder still are some leftist fools in America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia who buy into that islam predates all other cultures in their nations.