At least 155 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa successfully entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after climbing over fences or walking across a border post separating the territory from Morocco, authorities said Friday. The organized crime groups engaged in the human trafficking of African migrants are also violent; they have been attacking police in the past. […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Ceuta, Where Less Would Be More (Part Two)
The Spanish have even made things easier for these migrants. In mid-June, the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, announced that he would remove the barbed wire on top of the security fences around Ceuta and Melilla, because — he said — it was too dangerous for those who were trying to breach the […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Ceuta, Where Less Would Be More (Part One)
From Morocco, thousands of undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been flooding into Spain: some twenty-three thousand in the first six months of this year. And they have done it without leaving the continent of Africa. Their preferred point of entry into Europe is Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves — the other is Melilla […]
Catholic archbishop accuses Brussels of treating Muslim migrants like “slaves” in “concentration camps”
Although Brussels has aggressively pushed the globalist utopian vision of open-door immigration, while rejecting the facts about jihad terror, assaults by Muslim migrants, no-go zones, sharia patrols and the like, still it has not done enough to welcome migrants, according to the Moroccan Roman Catholic Archbishop, Santiago Agrelo Martinez. He attacked Brussels for its failure […]
Boat migrants in Italy down 80%, up 350% in socialist Spain
The number of migrant sea arrivals in populist Italy, so far in 2018, is down 80 percent compared to last year, whilst surging by over 350 percent in the same period in socialist Spain. In Ceuta, this was the scene described in the Daily Mail as migrants stormed in: They scrambled over ‘all of a […]
Spain: Hundreds of Muslim migrants storm border fence from Africa into Ceuta
Hundreds of African migrants have attempted to storm border fences separating European Union territory from Africa in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, resulting in several injuries Violent efforts by migrants to enter Europe via Ceuta have been ongoing. Last year, over 1000 migrants also stormed the Spanish border into Ceuta using rocks and metal bars. […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Once and Future Al-Andalus
“We will recover al-Andalus, Allah willing. Oh dear Andalus! You thought we forgot about you. I swear by Allah we have never forgotten you. No Muslim can forget Córdoba, Toledo or Xàtiva. There are many faithful and sincere Muslims who swear they will return to al-Andalus.” — Islamic State video, January 31, 2016 Muslims are […]
Spain: Hundreds of Muslim migrants try to storm only EU land border with Africa
Spain’s two enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, are often used as entry points into Europe for African migrants, who either climb over their border fences or try to swim along the coast. A decade ago, the Investigative Project published a report about the fertile grounds for jihad recruitment in Ceuta. The area had virtually […]
Spain: Muslim migrants break through border fence, over 80 still at large
What could possibly go wrong? In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. Meanwhile, 80% of migrants who have come to Europe claiming […]
Spain: Submachine guns, knives, Islamic State flag found at holiday hotspot
We have already seen jihad attacks on resorts and beach areas in North Africa. There will be much, much more of this. The West’s immigration policies, coupled with the bland assumption that the overwhelming majority of mosques in the West are teaching peace and tolerance, makes that a certainty. “Chilling ISIS weapons cache found buried […]
Spain: Ex-Guantanamo detainee arrested for recruiting for the Islamic State
On the same day Obama announced that he was closing Guantanamo, this arrest in Spain reminded us of why that is a bad idea. “Former Guantanamo detainee among 4 arrested in Spain, Morocco for Islamic State ties,” by Alan Clendenning and Ciaran Giles, Associated Press, February 23, 2016: MADRID — Spanish and Moroccan police on […]
Spain: 7 Muslims arrested, sent arms to jihadis disguised as humanitarian aid
Remember this one the next time you hear about a Muslim who traveled to Syria from the U.K. or U.S., and then insists upon his return that he just went there for “humanitarian” reasons. “Seven arrested in Spain over suspected jihad links,” AFP, February 7, 2016: Madrid (AFP) – Spanish police said they arrested seven […]
Spanish police arrest Muslim brothers plotting jihad; “many parallels” with Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre
Not that this has anything to do with Islam. “Spanish Police Arrest Brothers Suspected of Planning Jihad,” Reuters, January 24, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): MADRID — The police in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta arrested four men on Saturday suspected of belonging to a militant Islamist network that may have been planning an […]