Spain now has a left-wing government that has been steadily losing support. There are several reasons for this, including the economic degringolade stemming from runaway inflation, the amnesty that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has proposed giving to Catalan rebels in exchange for their political support. But above all, the unwillingness of the government to stem immigration from North and West Africa, with almost all of the immigrants being Muslim, has been a cause for special alarm. More on this can be found here: “The Islamization of Spain: From al-Andalus to the Migration Crisis,” by Uzay Bulut, European Conservative, December 22, 2023:
Recently, media attention has focused on Spain because of the public protests against its leftwing government. Widespread disapproval of the government is hardly surprising given the government’s unpopular policies regarding the economy, mass immigration, the constitution, education, and other important issues. Furthermore, with the mass influx of illegal Muslim migrants into Spain and the severe decline in Spanish birth rates, the nation finds itself at a crossroads, with its future far from certain.
The demographic jihad by Muslims has two parts. First, there is the mass influx by Muslims into Spain that the left-wing government of Pedro Sanchez has done nothing to halt. Second, the Muslims in Spain exhibit a fertility rate three times larger than the 1.01 fertility rate of the native Spanish, that is far below the replacement level of 2.1. Each year in Spain Muslims, with their much larger birth rate, constitute a greater share of the population.
A major problem that prevents many people from understanding Spain’s history with Islam is the false historiography, or even propaganda, that rewrites the history of Muslim-occupied medieval Spain and tries to portray it as a ‘bastion of peace and multiculturalism.’
After Islam’s emergence in Arabia during the 7th century, one of the first objectives of invading Arabs was the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Parts of Spain and Portugal (which the Muslims called ‘al-Andalus’) were occupied and ruled by a succession of Islamic dynasties for almost 800 years, beginning in the 8th century. With the expansion of Islam, the Muslims seized almost the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula in less than a decade, from 711 to 718. The Visigothic Christian kingdom was defeated, and its last king, Rodrigo, was slain by the invaders.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute notes:
Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—’al-Andalus’—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. But this widely accepted account is simply false, as Northwestern University scholar (and Modern Age editorial adviser) Darío Fernández-Morera reveals in his new book, The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise.
Some excerpts from the book include:
Al-Kardabus and another Muslim historian, Abd al-Wahid al-Marrakushi, write that the Arab leader Musa Ibn Nusayr sacked, enslaved, and spent three years waging jihad—holy war—against the Spanish infidels. Along with al-Kardabus, al-Marrakushi and al-Maqqari say that Musa spent as much time ‘pillaging’ as ‘organizing’ the conquered land. These sources also mention that several members of the tabi’un (a generation of pious Muslims who were direct disciples of Muhammad’s Companions) entered Spain to direct the jihad and the conversion of the land. The presence of these members of the tabi’un underlines the fundamentally religious motivation of the invasion—a jihad.
If Christians resisted, a massacre would follow after a Muslim victory. Near Orihuela, the defeated Christians were punished with extermination.
After the Muslims took Córdoba in a furious assault, the remaining Christian defenders retreated to a church to continue fighting. According to al-Maqqari, the Muslims put the building to the torch and the Christians inside died, without surrendering; according to al-Kardabus, when the Christians surrendered, the Muslim commander had them beheaded.
The history of Muslim-occupied Spain was largely marked by a severe persecution of Christians and Jews that included several expulsions and pogroms. In 1013, for instance, Muslims expelled the Jews from Cordoba and confiscated their wealth. In 1066, Muslims massacred almost the entire Jewish population of Granada in a pogrom that destroyed the city….
Too many in the West, and even in Spain itself, have fallen for the myth of a tolerant Islamic Spain, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in a state of happy Convivencia. If things had been so splendid under the wise and compassionate rule of Muslims, why was it that the Christians of Spain spent 700 years trying to overthrow their rule, pushing them steadily back until the last Muslim kingdom, that of Granada, was conquered in 1492 and all of Spain was again under Christian rule? It is important that the true story of Spain under Muslim domination be taught — the story of pogroms of Jews by Muslims (in Cordoba in 1013 and Granada in 1066), massacres of Christians by Muslim conquerors, the use by Muslims of Christian girls and women as sex slaves, and the imposition of the capitation tax known as the jizyah, paid by all Christians and Jews to the Islamic state in order to be allowed to practice their religion. It was, in short, religiously demanded extortion.
The tidal wave of Muslim economic migrants flowing into Spain needs to be halted. For this to happen, it’s important that the indigenous Spanish remember their own history, instead of accepting the sanitized version of Islamic Spain that not just the Muslims, but ill-informed Western historians, such as the late Maria Rosa Menocal, have been disseminating.
Yogi says
Spain ii lost with this traitor Sanchez , He is exactly like Macron, disaster..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Weren’t there any historians in the courts of King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella?
Barbara says
Darío Fernández-Morera reveals in his new book, The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise.
His book is in depth and easy to understand. The specific history is not taught and needs to be.
There is a list of old Spanish names being replaced with Arab names. Al-Andaluz / Andalusia is just one example.
If living under Islam was so good, why then did the Spaniards spend centuries getting the Muslims out of Spain.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Andalusia is actually a province of Spain, just like Fars (Persia) is a province of Iran
The answer to your latter question from the woke crowd and prime minister Sanchez will be that the Reconquistas of Ferdinand and Isabella were islamophobes who didn’t recognize the beauty of islam and decided to colonize their lands & impose their Catholic bigotry on them
RC says
If Islam is so beautiful, why has it not flourished in other places? Exactly what is so beautiful about it?
Hudders. says
‘If Christians resisted, a massacre would follow after a Muslim victory. Near Orihuela, the defeated Christians were punished with extermination.’
A glimpse into the future not just for Spain, but Germany, Italy & especially Ireland & the UK too, if the influx is not stopped.
History is about to be repeated & the horrors witnessed today, will seem as nothing in comparison.
The army of Islam is on the move again.
James Lincoln says
Hudders. says,
“The army of Islam is on the move again.”
Yes, and in most instances they are winning.
Burnaby Lad says
a month before the nova festival was the medusa festival
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/09/spain-leaked-police-report-shows-95-of-79-arrested-for-violent-robbery-at-festival-were-muslim-arabs
mea says
again, it is this simple… like the entire politi’Kal ‘Klas ruling the west, they are all extorted and/or bribed to sustain the mohammadan soft invasion of the west … while
the indoctrinated citizens of the west do nothing because no one who claims to oppose the mohammadan invasion of the west will publicly label what is going on…
O ! it seems no one would include you an everyone you know… do you think ?
like being an alcohol or drug addict to quit, you have to recognize you have a problem, want to dry out, and decide to change and make it stick… we are all indoctrinated to be marxist toadies – dupes.
you all need to quit being marxist indoctrinated toadies; in this case, it means exposing the mohammadans and their soft invasion of the west.
SteveM says
I think conversion of Spain and Europe in general will be much faster than in the middle ages. They are weak people, don’t believe in anything, have no meddle and thus will convert in droves to stop the heat Muslims place upon them.From beatings at school to rapes. Dark ages redux indeed.
The Catholic Empire of Austria Hungary Poland and Western Ukraine and the Russian Orthodox empire can probably hold out longer but Western Europe is toast.
SteveM says
I am 4th Generation American by my Russian great grandparents came in 1918 to US to escape the commies and that was trumatic. Half family died etc. I feel like some exodus similar will happen in Europe as things heat up.
WPM says
The trouble is where to exodus to ?? We have rioting Moslems in many American cities back by useful idiotic leftist how chanting from the river to the sea. They block highways ,they disrupt church services in Manhattan on Christmas day ,block bridges. They have been elected or appointed to many positions of power in government in North America and European countries. Islam is a problem in Asia, the Americas ,Europe ,Africa ,Australia ,New Zealand ,even the former republics of the Soviet Union .There is no where to run from the Islam cancer on civilization. The Philippines ,Thailand , everywhere it gets a foot hold is like cancer .Islam is the greatest threat to every person on this planet ,greater then Nazism was, it is older ,and rotten to its core nothing positive has come from Islam in over 1200 years .
SteveM says
I realise it’s bleak but Tte red states don’t tolerate this nonsense. China and eastern europe are still safe. The mass migrations of populations under stress was my only point. Then we can assemble like minded to fight it like we did communism or Europeans did Islam. Cant do it with liberals, 5th columnists and other traitors in your mysts.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Kepha addressed China below, and Eastern Europe is not safe either: Poland, after years of resisting, finally has a EU friendly government that has now opened up to muslims. What happens in Slovakia, Hungary, et al remains to be seen
Kepha says
@SteveM–do not think Communist China a friend. It is doing all it can to align the Muslim world in a coalition that hates the USA; and those fine, upstanding Moozlums are perfectly happy to throw their Uighur brethren under the bus. Communist China made a point of rubbing Democrat decadence in our faces during the Alaska summit. It has suggested that Japan give up its hold on the Ryukyus (tributary to China at the height of the Qing dynasty).
As for Spain and Western Europe, if they are overrun, do not allow the cultural and political leaders of those lands any asylum. Remember, the New Left of the Silly ‘Sixties and Sillier ‘Seventies were midwifed into being by the carriers of the utterly self-destructive Weimar “culture” (this is not an excuse for Hitler, who was abominable beyond words) such as Marcuse and Brecht.
As a Christian, I am in prayer for a revival in the Western world. But I also fear that our surrender to elites that mock God at every turn and delight in flouting divine authority means that the Christian West, like Israel of old, is ripe for a rod of God’s anger (cf. Isaiah 10). Maybe that’s what the rise of a national socialist China and the furor islamicus is all about.
RC says
For more history of now Muslims were invading Europe, see book Defenders of the West. Nothing has changed in their tactics and actions. Kill, rape, enslave, behead etc. It took some very brave and skilled warriors to get rid of them and many lives were lost.
Mike says
Spain should focus on not only stemming Muslim migration, but getting more non-Muslims immigrants from its former colonies in Latin America (and from its former colony if the Philippines). As well, they might welcome Christian refugees from places in Africa and elsewhere who face oppression from Islamists.
Eduardo Garcia says
There are two Infinity things: The Universe and human stupidity. In regards with Islam -Muslims the Western Culture-Civilization had and is committing such stupidity at the Trillion degree. We will pay dearly for that blunder