Everyone has their limits. And the calls for national sovereignty are winning supporters in the areas that have suffered the most from unlimited and unrestricted migration.
Gabriel, a retired military member with a thin mustache and a blue tracksuit, says he will vote for the far-right group Vox at the upcoming local election of May 26. “I have always voted for the PP [Popular Party], but I am going to vote for Vox to see if they change things a bit,” he says.
Vox’s promise to build a wall along the Moroccan border and its defense of the “Mediterranean, European and Western way of life” has won great support in Ceuta.
Gabriel’s opinions reflect this shift to the right. “I don’t pay my taxes for undocumented migrants,” “I’m not in favor of building a wall, I’m in favor of every one staying in their own land,” “in this neighborhood, there is no problem with drugs because very few Muslims live here,”
Gabriel lives in one of the neighborhoods where Vox received the highest amount of votes at the April 28 general election. But it also has a different side. As Gabriel criticizes migrants, Moroccan women dressed in hijabs who are employed irregularly to work in homes for €350 a month line up silently to buy groceries for their employers.
“I have never employed a Moroccan. I have not needed to and I don’t like them,” says Gabriel, adjusting his hat.
The outcome of the May 26 election is difficult to predict, but there are two certainties: Vox will enter the local council, where more than one-third of the seats are held by Muslim politicians, and the Popular Party (PP) will lose the absolute majority it has enjoyed for 18 years.
Nearly 30,000 people cross the border that separates Morocco from Ceuta every day. “I saw that the border was going to be a problem,” admits Ceuta Mayor Juan Jesús Vivas, of the PP. “We need a secure and fluid border, and we are all to blame for this. We should have done it earlier.”
And, as a lot of countries are learning, it’s not too late.
mortimer says
Spaniards have the choice of defending their rights and freedoms or letting their country revert to the Islamic Middle Ages when most of Southern Spain was cleansed of Christians and no Christian church was left standing. Muslims are itching to reconquer Spain and then the rest of Europe. It’s not simply about economic opportunity.
Muslims dislike the corruption, restrictions and violence in Islamic countries, but they admit it is a result of Islamic teachings… they can’t put two and two together.
CRUSADER says
Muslims want Spaniards to choose (once again) from three choices:
1) Convert to Islam…
2) Enter DHIMMI status under the yoke of Islam…
3) DIE !
(All three choices, which are impositions, equate to death of the soul!)
gravenimage says
Border Wall Finds Appeal in 40% Muslim City in Spain
………………
*Good*. Let’s hope it’s not too late.
Guy Forester says
I read an interesting book, “Spain in Our Hearts (Adam Hochshild, Mariner books, 2016) about the Spanish Civil (actually, very uncivil) War (1936-38). Many of the troops used by Franco were Moroccans. He used them to terrorize those areas he conquered. Very cruel, similar to ISIS. Essentially, these troops were “rewarded” by Franco when they regained control of an area. He basically let them run wild and rape, pillage, loot, etc. The fascists and these troops (members of the religion we dare not name) bragged about this.
I would recommend any Spaniard to read this book and to talk to anyone that is still around from that time or anyone that had conversations with survivors. I certainly am not leftist, and find that what the leftists did (“red terror”) was despicable. However, the terror (“white terror”) unleashed by the fascists was worse. Also, remember, Fascism grew out of socialist political parties. It seems to me that the further you go to the right or the left, you end up at the same place: Tyranny, Terror, and Slavery for the average person.
I think you need more than walls at Ceuta and Melilla. You need to guard and protect those walls.
Mac-101 says
Thanks, I never remembered that Franco initially used the Muslim Troops before Hitler to terrorize a resisting population! I would be highly surprised if the Muslims are not bein imported by the Globalist to do this NOW. The International Elites financed BOTH the Bolsheviks and NAZIs.
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I wonder what the Spanish Catholic Church’s unofficial position at he time on this was since the Left was out to destroy the Church?
CRUSADER says
So, who is right? CFR says they weren’t Muslims, but Spanish troops based in Muslim majority territory. Certainly they behaved like marauding Muslims!!!! Perhaps these shock troops learned how by hanging around the dreaded Moors…..
CFR says
They weren’t Moslem. They were Spanish military units based in Morocco. Franco had the army which supported his movement and thankfully, he and the Nationalists. Otherwise Spain would have become a hinterland of the USSR as it is today with the EUSSR.
Miguelangel says
The Regulares, were Muslim troops recruited in Morocco, and promised pillage in Spain. They engaged in the regular gang rape of Spanish women. This was part and parcel of Franco’s policy
Mac-101 says
This would be a historical subject well worth researching today for todays problems in Spain and Europe!
CRUSADER says
In news about Shi’ites….
EMET:
Designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
as Terror Organization — smart move !
https://emetonline.org/designating-irans-irgc-a-terror-organization-was-a-smart-move/
Recently, the United States designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization. The U.S. decision was predicated on the fact that the IRGC “actively participates in, finances, and promotes terrorism as a tool of statecraft.”
Although it is unusual for the U.S. to designate the arm of a nation as a terrorist organization, this action was not unprecedented. The U.S. had already designated part of the IRGC, the Quds Force, for its sponsorship of terrorism.
Needless to say, the Iranian regime was not happy with this decision. Prior to the decision, Iranian officials warned of a “crushing” response should the United States go ahead with the designation.
After the designation was made, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei labeled it “a vicious move,” and the Iranian Armed Forces’ general staff, which oversees the IRGC, said it would “use all its means to fight” against the U.S.’ CENTCOM, which Iranian lawmakers promptly voted to declare was a terrorist organization. An IRGC commander also warned “Mr. Trump, tell your warships not to pass near the Revolutionary Guards boats.”
These threats produced the desired result among the foreign policy experts. Dennis Ross, who has worked for every American President from George H. W. Bush to Barack Obama, warned that “(the designation of the IRGC) is likely to produce an Iranian response. Most likely in Iraq, where the Iranians will push on the vulnerability of our presence both politically and militarily. The former, by pushing in the parliament legislation forcing the US to leave; the latter, by potentially having its Shia militia proxies attack American forces and by building their rocket presence in western Iraq.”
The only problem with this argument is that the Iranian’s and their terror allies already have a long history of making threats against the U.S., and, oftentimes, following through on those threats.
Starting in 1979, the Iranian regime began to sponsor demonstrations in Iran where crowds chanted “Death to America.” At least two times each year this occurs — every November, to commemorate the taking of the American hostages in 1979, and every February, to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought the current Iranian regime to power.
And the Iranian regime was not making idle threats.
In the 1980’s, the IRGC created Hezbollah in Lebanon. Prior to 9/11, Hezbollah had the distinction of having killed more U.S. citizens than any other terror organization. Most significantly, in 1983, Hezbollah’s bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut murdered 241 american marines and others.
In 1996, IRGC-sponsored terrorists detonated a load of 15 tons of explosives, killing 19 u.s. military personnel at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.
In 2001, the IRGC played a role in the 9/11 attack. In 2004, a U.S. court held that the IRGC was liable for the deaths of 1,008 people whose families sued, because Iran provided assistance, including training, to the 9/11 hijackers.
From 2003 to 2011, the IRGC provided Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), including the more deadly Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs), and other equipment and training to Iraqi militias, which resulted in the deaths of at least 608 american soldiers. Many of these Iraqi militiamen are now part of the Popular Mobilization Forces that Iran is using to build its influence in Iraq.
Since 2011, there have been fewer Iranian sponsored attacks in Iraq against the U.S., although they have not ceased. In 2018, one of the Iraqi militias, trained and funded by Tehran, fired mortars into an area in Baghdad close to the U.S. embassy.
Also during this time period, but continuing through today, Iran, which had previously opposed the Sunni Muslim Taliban in Afghanistan, reversed course to support and train them. This assistance, which again includes IEDs and EFPs, has resulted in many U.S. deaths. Most disturbingly, Iran has put an actual bounty on the head of U.S. soldiers, paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each one they kill. Thousands of Americans, both soldiers and contractors, have been killed in Afghanistan, although there is no estimate of the number of deaths caused by Iran.
Even when the Iranians were negotiating the Iran deal with the U.S. under President Obama, they did not cease their threats or aggression towards the U.S. A few weeks after the Iran deal, the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, tweeted a graphic of President Obama with a gun to his head. A few months later, Khamenei declared that the “U.S. is the embodiment of the enemy of the Islamic peoples and of Iran. It must be fought with military, cultural, economic, and political jihad, he said, adding that Islamic Iran is not interested in reconciling with it.”
And once again, during those immediate post-deal years, the Iranian navy was increasingly aggressive against the U.S. Navy. U.S. forces operating in and around the Strait of Hormuz were often approached by Iranian warships and aircraft in an “unsafe or unprofessional manner.” according to the navy, this happened 22 times in 2015, 36 times in 2016, and 14 times in 2017, before stopping in 2018. At one point, the Iranians even violated international law by grabbing two U.S. Navy ships and ten sailors until releasing them the next day. While in custody the sailors were, intimidated, humiliated and made to “apologize.”
Since 1979, the Iranian regime has been the leading state sponsor of terror, which hates and targets the United States and its interests. The Iranian regime created the IRGC to sponsor and fund this terror. By designating the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization, the Trump administration is just recognizing that reality. This is a smart decision; it would have been ludicrous for the U.S. to refrain from designating the IRGC because it feared threats of terror and violence coming from a nation and its organ that is already threatening and attacking the U.S.
Originally published: https://www.newsmax.com/adamturner/iran-irgc-foreign-terrorist-organization/2019/05/06/id/914742/
EMET = Endowment for Middle East Truth
RichardL says
Vox is NOT far right. Not one bit. Please read their party programme. A friend of ours is up for election in one of Spain’s major cities for Vox and she is a liberal in the classical sense of the word.
Heidi says
Richard, we all know this. They are as far right as the AFD or other parties that want to protect their population and stop the influx of “guests”. But as you well know, anyone or any party not going in the same direction as the left fascists are far right. Unfortunately too many still believe them.
TheBuffster says
RichardL, I was wondering about the designation of Vox as “far right”. I don’t know anything about them, but when “far right” is applied to someone these days, I’m always skeptical.
Yes, the *only* way to know what a party really stands for is to read their party program first-hand and not rely on claims and quotes from second-hand sources.
Carolyne says
I didn’t actually know there was a Spanish territory in northern Africa until I found myself in Ceuta a few years ago. It was worlds away just crossing the border into Morocco and seeing the difference in culture and standard of living. I took the ferry from Gibraltar to what I thought was going to be Tangier, but took the wrong ferry and ended up in Ceuta. It was an interesting city. And yes, if I lived there I would certainly want a wall.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that account, Carolyne.