Spain

We must refute the myth that Muslim-occupied medieval Spain was a bastion of peace and multiculturalism.

Recently, media attention has focused on Spain because of the public protests against its left-wing 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.

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 months of investigation and surveillance, Spanish police made 13 arrests this week in one of the largest anti-terror operations in recent years.

On Tuesday, Spanish National Police, working with their Moroccan counterparts, dismantled a terror recruitment cell by arresting nine in the North African exclave of Melilla and another person in the city of Nador, just across the Moroccan border, El Mundo reports.

The General Directorate for the Surveillance of Moroccan Territory (DGSN) said that the suspects were attempting to recruit new jihadists. Among those arrested was one suspect who is believed to be a member of a terrorist group operating in the African Sahel region. 

What would it take for Spain—or any society, for that matter—to reassess the scale at which it welcomes immigrants from Muslim-majority countries? Not that such a reassessment would necessarily make a practical difference, since most such immigrants (primarily from neighboring Morocco in Spain’s case) file asylum claims underwritten by EU protocols over which the member states have entirely given up their sovereignty. Though such claims are often long shots, the mere act of filing one immediately shields the applicant from deportation pending a judge’s ruling on whether to grant or deny it. Those immigrants who come in a plainly illegal manner, meanwhile, or those who overstay the denial of their claim, are admittedly a population which, if public opinion supported such a move, the state could more swiftly deport than it currently is.

Why is it only the Right talking about the killer’s Islamist background?

Last week, on Spain’s southernmost outpost of Algeciras, 25-year-old Moroccan national Yassine Kanjaa left his apartment to head into town. He had been illegally squatting there for three years, but it was clear that he would not be returning any time soon.

A machete-wielding man killed a sexton and wounded a priest in attacks at two churches in the Spanish city of Algeciras on Wednesday before being arrested, in what authorities are investigating as a possible act of terrorism.

The suspect was arrested and is in the custody of Spain’s national police. The ministry did not identify him.

The attacks began around 7pm when the armed man went into the San Isidro church and assaulted a priest, who was seriously wounded.

From Libertad –  A North African man armed with a machete has killed one person and injured four others in attacks on several churches in Algeciras. The attack took place around 7:30 p.m. this Wednesday and is being investigated by the National Court as a case of terrorism. According to legal sources cited by Efe, the attacker would have shouted “Allah!” 

From El Confidencial – The jihadist from Algeciras had been pending deportation to Morocco since June 2022 -The National Police detained him in the city of Cádiz on June 16, 2022 and verified that he lacked the necessary documentation to be able to reside in Spanish territory.

BREAKING:

Terror attack in Spain.

A 32-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker entered a church during mass in Algeciras.

Using his machete, he stabbed a sacristan to death and wounded the priest severely while screaming “God is great.”

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 25, 2023

h/t NeoCon

Spanish officials are investigating a possible Islamic terrorist motive following a deadly car crash at a bar in Murcia on Friday that left one man dead.