Spaniard With A Spine

It's nice to see that there is a few of them left.
Descendants of the Moors expelled from Spain 500 years ago failed to receive an apology from King Juan Carlos as he toured Morocco yesterday.

Residents of Tetouan, many of whose ancestors were driven from the Iberian peninsula by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, said an opportunity had been lost to heal an historic wound, which has become all the more sensitive in recent years.
Osama bin Laden has often talked of the tragedy of the loss of al-Andalus, the Moorish region of Spain. The terrorists who attacked Madrid last year, killing 192 people and wounding 1,900, spoke of Spain with the same sense of historic vengeance. Three million Muslims were expelled in 1501.

The king, who is on his first state visit to Morocco since 1979, cancelled his visit to Tetouan at the last minute. The official reason was lack of time but unofficially it appeared that sensitivities had arisen because Tetouan was the old Spanish colonial capital.

King Juan Carlos said in a speech earlier this week that the legacy of an Arab and Andalusian heritage was a key to "the positive image'' in Spain of "Arabic culture and Islam''.

The king has apologised for the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and the descendants of the expelled Moors say he owes Muslims the same respect.
The expulsion of the Jews (who had been in Spain since Roman times) was an act of religious-inspired racism. The explusion of the Moors was a political reassertion of Spanish control over Spanish lands.

What is this half-brained selective lunacy (which I also explored yesterday) that leads Muslims and their Dhimmi creatures to recognize only the acts committed by Christians attempting to reconquer lands stolen from them by Muslims, but repeatedly "overlooks" the fact that the lands had been taken by bloody, unprovoked Muslim aggression in the first place?

Osama may well pine for the loss of al-Andalus, but it was never, at any time, historical Muslim territory. It was taken from the Visigothic Spaniards, who never submitted or recognized the Moorish conquest, and it was taken back by their descendants as the Reconquista gained momentum.

Nothing to apologise for in that. Or should we decide that all victors in all wars fought against unchecked aggression should have cause for guilt? If that's so, then we owe the poor, poor people of Germany one hell of a big apology.

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