Sliding down the slope of Dhimmitude in Spain
From the Commissar at
Politburo Diktat comes the news of another retreat into darkness by Spain.
According to an article in
BBC:
bq. A statue in a Spanish cathedral showing St James slicing the heads off Moorish invaders is to be removed to avoid causing offense to Muslims.
bq. Cathedral authorities in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, on Spain's north west coast, plan to move the statue to the museum.
bq. Among the reasons for the move is to avoid upsetting the "sensitivities of other ethnic groups".
And the Commissar shows that he is not just a fearless leader, he is also a scholar:
bq.
Santiago de Compostela
The Commissar majored in Medieval History and knows a little bit about that era, including Santiago de Compostela. It was not just "a pilgrimage destination," it was THE pilgrimage destination. The Crusaders held Jerusalem, and it was accessible to pilgrims, only for a few decades in the Eleventh Century. After that, Muslims controlled it.
bq. Santiago de Compostela was the place. Today's news is filled with references to Muslim "Holy Cities:" Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Qom (Iran), Najaf, Kerbala, etc. Santiago de Compostela ranks with these; it not just some remote tourist trap.
bq. Da, comrades, tomorrow, mosques in Medina will be cleansed of Koranic verses referring to deaths of infidels. "To avoid upsetting the sensitivities of other ethnic groups."
Yeah - reciprocity anyone? The mosques will be cleansed of things that Christians might find offensive? Religion of Peace anyone?
Posted by DaveH at May 3, 2004 11:36 AM