Traditions? Pah
October 5th, 2006 | 
Author: Once again, Eurabia strikes back, this time destroying a 500-year old perfectly appropriate celebration of liberation in my beloved Spain:
Spain will no longer burn effigies of the Prophet Muhammad. Muslim armies occupied Spain from 711 to 1492. For the past five centuries the Spanish have traditionally celebrated the 1492 liberation from the Moors (as the Muslims were locally called) with local village festivals during which the battles against the Moors were reenacted and effigies of the Muslim prophet – the so-called “la Mahoma” – were mocked, thrown from the windows, and burned.
Last year the town of Bocairent near Valencia decided to discontinue the tradition of centuries. The town did not want to risk becoming the target of Islamic suicide bombers. On Monday the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that this year the other Valencian towns are also abolishing ancient traditions which are perceived to be offensive to Muslims. The people of Beneixama used to stuff the head of the Mahoma with firecrackers which went off as the onlookers applauded. This year Beneixama decided to abolish this part of the celebration. Antonio Valdés, the local mayor, told El Pais: “This was not an essential part of the festivities. It could hurt the sensitivities of some. We decided to avoid that.” The reconquista will still be commemmorated, but without “aggression” towards Muhammad.
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So instead of burning an effigy, they sacrificed their testicles and bowed to intimidation…
In a nutshell, yes.
Eeh, well, not ALL Spanish people are in favour of these measures, I assure you. And most of us are beginning to be a little if not too much, tired of this kind of pre-emptive surrendering.
The most important Spanish MSM are all day trying to teach us about the important roots of Islamic culture in Spain. In fact, some Autonomous Government (especially Andalucian one) are all day and in all programs trying to convince us that before Islamic culture, Spain was a pre-historic place, devoted to forbid people all sexual relations and free thought. But the sexual and intellectual revolutions came with the Moors, and we were all free then. (I am not joking, right?)
It is very hard to be Spanish these days.
I love Spain; I can’t wait to go back. But I’m really disappointed to hear that there’s such a movement, especially in Andalucia which I loved best.
Thanks for sharing that with us, though.
Moops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moops
Moops, indeed. Damn those moops!