{"id":4501,"date":"2020-11-15T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2020-11-15T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T13:45:15","slug":"islam-in-europe-lessons-from-medieval-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/2020\/11\/15\/islam-in-europe-lessons-from-medieval-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam in Europe: Lessons from Medieval Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why all of Macron\u2019s measures against \u201cextremism\u201d are doomed to failure.<\/p>\n

[Taken from here<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A critical question arises in light of the recent spate of fatal terror attacks in France and other European nations: How do you once and for all eradicate \u201cextremism\u201d from Muslim communities living in the West?<\/p>\n

Western leaders usually respond by citing anything and everything from new \u201cinitiatives\u201d meant to foster closer relations between Muslim communities and their host nations, to surveillance measures of hot spots and mosques.<\/p>\n

Lamentably, history has already proven that even much more draconian measures against Islam\u2014of the sort that modern Western man cannot even conceive let along implement\u2014are doomed to failure.<\/p>\n

Consider the historical experiences of France\u2019s neighbor, Spain. \u00a0In the eighth century, Muslims from Africa invaded and brutally conquered the Iberian Peninsula.\u00a0 Christians were\u00a0massacred and subjugated<\/a>; churches were destroyed and\/or converted to mosques.\u00a0 By the late fifteenth century, however\u2014after\u00a0centuries of wars<\/a>\u00a0to liberate Spain from Islam (AKA, the Reconquista)\u2014Christian rule finally extended to every corner of the peninsula.<\/p>\n

Muslims, however, remained, mostly centered in Granada.\u00a0 Originally, they were given lenient terms: Muslims could continue practicing their religion, enforce sharia in their own communities, and even travel freely.<\/p>\n

Even so, whenever the opportunity arose, Muslims rebelled and launched many hard-to-quell uprisings, some \u201cinvolving the stoning, dismembering, beheading, impaling, and burning alive of Christians.\u201d\u00a0 Muslims also regularly colluded with foreign Muslim powers (e.g., North Africans, Ottoman Turks) in an effort to subvert Spain back to Islam.<\/p>\n

Fed up with this \u201cenemy within,\u201d the Spanish crown finally decreed in 1501 that all Muslims had two choices: convert to Christianity or leave Spain. The motivation was less religious and more political; it was less about making Muslims \u201cgood Christians\u201d and more about making them \u201cgood citizens.\u201d So long as they remained Muslim\u2014thereby operating under the highly divisive doctrine of \u201cloyalty and enmity<\/a>\u201d\u2014they would remain hostile and disloyal to Christian Spain; and because secularism, atheism, multiculturalism, or just general \u201cwokeness,\u201d were not options then, the only practical way Muslims could slough off their tribalism and be loyal to a Christian kingdom was by embracing its faith.<\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s entire Muslim population\u2014hundreds of thousands of Muslims\u2014responded by openly embracing Christianity while remaining crypto-Muslims, in keeping with the Muslim\u00a0doctrine<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0taqiyya<\/a>.\u00a0 It teaches that, whenever Muslims find themselves under infidel authority, they may say and do almost anything\u2014denounce Muhammad, receive baptism and communion, venerate the cross\u2014as long as their hearts remain true to Islam.\u00a0 So, in public, these newly converted \u201cChristians\u201d went to church and baptized their children; at home, they recited the Koran, preached undying hate for the infidel, and plotted how to destroy Christian Spain.<\/p>\n

That these \u201cMoriscos\u201d\u2014that is, self-professed Muslim converts to Christianity who were still \u201cMoorish,\u201d or Islamic, as they came to be known\u2014went to great lengths to foist their deception cannot be doubted, as explained by one historian:<\/p>\n

For a Morisco to pass as a good Christian took more than a simple statement to that effect. It required a sustained performance involving hundreds of individual statements and actions of different types, many of which might have little to do with expressions of belief or ritual per se. Dissimulation [taqiyya] was an institutionalized practice in Morisco communities that involved regular patterns of behaviour passed on from one generation to the next.<\/p>\n

Despite this elaborate masquerade, Christians increasingly caught on: \u201cWith the permission and license that their accursed sect accorded them,\u201d a frustrated Spaniard remarked, \u201cthey could feign any religion outwardly and without sinning, as long as they kept their hearts nevertheless devoted to their false impostor of a prophet. We saw so many of them who died while worshipping the Cross and speaking well of our Catholic Religion yet who were inwardly excellent Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christians initially tried to reason with the Moriscos; they reminded them how they became Muslim in the first place: \u201cYour ancestor was a Christian, although he made himself a Muslim\u201d to avoid persecution or elevate his social status; so now \u201cyou also must become a Christian.\u201d When that failed, Korans were confiscated and burned; then Arabic, the language of Islam, was banned. When that too failed, more extreme measures were taken; it reached the point that a Morisco could \u201cnot even possess a pocketknife for eating with that did not have a rounded point, lest he savage a Christian with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Muslim chronicler summarizes these times: \u201cSuch of the Muslims as still remained in Andalus, although Christians in appearance, were not so in their hearts; for they worshipped Allah in secret. . . . The Christians watched over them with the greatest vigilance, and many were discovered and burnt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such are the origins of the Spanish Inquisition (which, contrary to popular belief, targeted more Muslims than Jews)<\/strong>. For no matter how much the Moriscos \u201cmight present the appearance of a most peaceful submission,\u201d a nineteenth century historian wrote, \u201cthey remained nevertheless fundamental Musulmans, watching for a favourable opportunity and patiently awaiting the hour of revenge, promised by their prophecies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus, when a rumor arose in 1568 that the Ottoman Turks had finally arrived, Spain\u2019s crypto-Muslim fifth column, \u201cbelieving that the days under Christian rule were over, went berserk. Priests all over the countryside were attacked, mutilated, or murdered; some were burned alive; one was sewed inside a pig and barbequed; the pretty Christian girls were assiduously raped, some sent off to join the harems of Moroccan and Algerian potentates.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, if Muslims could never be loyal to infidel authority\u2014constantly colluding and subverting, including with foreign Muslims\u2014and if conversion to Christianity was no solution, then only one solution remained: between 1609 and 1614, all Moriscos were expelled from the Peninsula to Africa, whence Islam had first invaded Spain nearly a millennium earlier.<\/p>\n

This decision was not taken lightly.\u00a0 Many Christians in Spain\u2014and the pope in Rome\u2014deemed it too harsh; some suggested the castration of all Morisco males as an alternative.\u00a0 Yet, in the end, the monarchy concluded that there was no other guarantee against the constant subversions and sporadic bouts of terrorism than the complete elimination of Islam from Spain.<\/p>\n

The point here is that Spain did everything humanly possible to get its Muslim population to assimilate and forsake their hate for Christian \u201cinfidels\u201d\u2014including by forcing them to convert to, and their children to be born in, Christianity, and monitoring their commitment\u2014and even\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0was not enough, thanks to the dispensation of taqiyya, which still informs much of Europe\u2019s Muslim population.<\/p>\n

As such, surely any and all \u201canti-extremist\u201d measures France and other Western nations take\u2014none of which will ever be anywhere near as extreme as premodern Spain\u2019s, and most of which\u00a0currently revolve<\/a>\u00a0around silly platitudes such as \u201cThey will not divide us,\u201d to\u00a0quote<\/a>\u00a0Macron after a beheading\u2014are doomed to failure.<\/p>\n

Note: Quotes in the above narrative were excerpted from and documented in the author’s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Note about the Inquisition:<\/p>\n

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In its 353-year history, the Spanish Inquisition was responsible for a grand total of 3,230 deaths, which on an annual basis is less than the number of French citizens who have been murdered by Muslims in 2020 alone. Source:\u00a0 The actual historical records. Look up the 783-page report published in 2004 by Agostino Borromeo of Sapienza University.<\/p>\n

Another source is historian Henry Kamen.<\/p>\n

We can in all probability accept the estimate, made on the basis of available documentation, that a maximum of three thousand persons may have suffered death during the entire history of the tribunal.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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