Suicidal self-hatred continues to sweep the West. My latest in FrontPage:
El HuffPost, which is what the Spanish language version of the hard-Left propaganda outfit the Huffington Post calls itself, on Wednesday tweeted a statement from Isabel Franco, a far-Left politician who is currently Vice President of the Region of Murcia and Regional Minister of Women, Equality, LGTBI, Families and Social Policy: “In Al-Ándalus three cultures coexisted. It was the Spanish monarchy that caused an enormous invasion, genocide and concealment.”
Well, of course. What else would you expect? What would have been surprising would have been Franco praising the Spanish monarchy and denigrating Islamic al-Andalus. But a Leftist politician of the twenty-first century praising an Islamic regime and denigrating Christian rulers is par for the course these days. Anything else would be “racist,” “bigoted,” “Islamophobic,” “xenophobic” and probably anti-trans or something as well.
If, however, Isabel Franco (pictured above) had been inclined to be honest, she would have plenty to apologize for. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, the first and only comprehensive history of the 1,400-year jihad phenomenon worldwide in the English language, shows that Muslim Spain was anything but a model of multiculturalism and coexistence. In fact, it was miserable to live as a Christian there. Christians could never be sure that they would not be harassed. One contemporary account tells of priests being “pelted with rocks and dung” by Muslims while on the way to a cemetery. The dhimmis suffered severe economic hardship: Paul Alvarus, a ninth century Christian in Córdoba, complained about the “unbearable tax” that Muslims levied on Christians.
Nor could Christians say anything about their situation, because that situation was mandated by Islamic law, and criticizing Islam, Muhammad, or the Qur’an in any manner was a death-penalty offense.
In 850, Perfectus, a Christian priest, engaged a group of Muslims in conversation about Islam; his opinion of the conquerors’ religion was not positive. For this, Perfectus was arrested and put to death. Not long thereafter, Joannes, a Christian merchant, was said to have invoked Muhammad’s name in his sales pitch. He was lashed and given a lengthy prison sentence. Christian and Muslim sources contain numerous records of similar incidents in the early part of the tenth century. Around 910, in one of many such episodes, a woman was executed for proclaiming that “Jesus was God and that Muhammad had lied to his followers.”
Far from being a paradise of tolerance, Umayyad Spain became a center of the Islamic slave trade. Muslim buyers could purchase sex-slave girls as young as eleven years old, as well as slave boys for sex as well, or slave boys raised to become slave soldiers. Also for sale were eunuchs, useful for guarding harems. Blonde slaves seized in jihad raids on Christian nations north of al-Andalus were especially prized, and fetched high prices. Slave traders would use makeup to whiten the faces and dye to lighten the hair of darker slaves, so that they could get more money for them.
A 12th century witness of the sale of sex slaves described the market:
The merchant tells the slave girls to act in a coquettish manner with the old men and with the timid men among the potential buyers to make them crazy with desire. The merchant paints red the tips of the fingers of a white slave; he paints in gold those of a black slave; and he dresses them all in transparent clothes, the white female slaves in pink and the black ones in yellow and red.
If the girls did not cooperate, of course, they would be beaten or killed.
The primary market for slaves among Muslims was for non-Muslims, as enslaving fellow Muslims was considered a violation of the Qur’an’s requirement to be “merciful to one another” (48:29); hence Muslim slave traders had to look to non-Muslim communities for merchandise.
Isabel Franco will never tell you any of that, and likely doesn’t know it herself. because if the public knew those facts and others, they wouldn’t favor the policies she and her fellow Leftists want Spain, and the West in general, to adopt. The truth that she doesn’t want you to know is in The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS – truths she and her allies have been working actively suppress. As her statements last week demonstrate, history has today become a weapon to influence current public policy.
gravenimage says
Spain: Leftist Politician Praises Islamic al-Andalus, Accuses Spanish Monarchy of ‘Genocide’
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What a moron. She would not be free today if Ferdinand and Isabella and all the brave Spaniards who fought the Muslim invaders had not done so.
Jon Sobieski says
After Isabellla reconquer parts of Spain controlled by the muslims, it took another 100 years to end the muslim blight that remained.
adrijaco says
She would not be free if her namesake were still alive and in power today.
gravenimage says
The claim that freedom from the horrors of Islam somehow crushes freedom of speech is not the case. In a sane world she can spout this claptrap, and others can correct the record and laugh at her.
Wellington says
Another useful idiot profoundly ignorant of the truth of things produced once again by a civilization in decline.
The Islamic world is delighted. You bet it is.
More specifically, useful idiots like this woman are not only ignorant, they have blood on their hands for excusing a religion which is steeped in hatred for the “other” and wishes the utter destruction of the West, certainly very often by violent means.
A moron, as gravenimage stated, and indicative of one of the stupidest phenomena in history, i.e., Western Leftism, which the current POTUS, dim bulb that he is, is saturated in.
tgusa says
How many divisions of women and lgbt did the Spanish Monarchy have on hand to drive out the muslim invaders?
gravenimage says
Actually, Isabella of Castile was a major force in the Reconquesta, as was her husband, Ferdinand of Aragon.
Mount Zion says
Make her live for a year or so in a muslim country like Saudi Arabia , Pakistan or Iran and let’s see if as a non muslims , she makes it out alive .
tgusa says
I would wager that a few divisions of old guys from parts of America and the west would put up a more formidable defense against the male dominated musilm invaders that Isabel and hers ever could.
John Forbes says
Hard to show more disgust for people like this woman! Has not read her history & refuses to do so apparently! The forces of Queen Isabella drove the Moors out of Spain.
The Islamic invasion was a time of SERVITUDE & ISLAMIC TAXES & RAPE for KAFIRS!
Isabel Franco seems to have missed that part of Spanish History!
However the MARXIST LEFTIST rewrite of History is well underway & it will take one hell of a REVOLUTION to turn this around!
The West needs a QUEEN ISABELLA or a CHARLES MARTEL now & also needs to be RIF OF THE ISLAMIC ARGENTINIAN POPE!
gregbeetham says
OMG what a fucking moron, surely her minder has not noticed she has escaped and is wandering around on the loose.
It is difficult to believe that someone can commit public self harm on such a scale without getting chucked into a loony bin.
mortimer says
Isabel Franco is an idiot in the matter of Islam in Spain, making unwarranted generalities and applying today’s standards of human rights to Spain’s complex 800-year Islamic invasion and occupation. The genocide came from the direction of Islam’s JIHAD IDEOLOGY.
Franco will probably not read the thoroughly researched book by Cuban-American scholar Dr. Dario Fernandez-Morera.
“The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain” by Darío Fernández-Morera, ISI Books, 376 pp., $29.95
“EL MITO DEL PARAISO ANDALUZ”, DARIO FERNANDEZ-MORERA, Editorial: ALMUZARA, 2018.
Comment: Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—“al-Andalus”—as a multicultural 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.
Scholar Fernandez-Morera strips away the veil created by politically-correct modern historians to look at the real face of Muslim Spain based on contemporary, predominantly Arab sources. Conscious that he is taking on the entrenched academic establishment, Professor Fernadez-Morera documents his book meticulously, quoting numerous sources for each assertion and providing more than 100 pages of notes.
Giacomo Latta says
Ms. Franco has a surname to live down. Perhaps that is the reason for the self-flagellation.
End PC says
Cervantes would be so ashamed of his country populated with cowed drones like her.
Geof says
The lives of Cheistians Jews Hindues and all other infidels has never been nice if muslums have the upper hand . This bitch like alot of other leftwingers are traitors to their own people
James says
Sophistry.
Historian says
Don’t give this idiot a platform. I wouldn’t know that she exists if it wasn’t for this article.
Dean Arisa says
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