The intifada of Spain's Ceuta
Jihadi forces could be setting their sights on "reconquering" Spanish areas in North Africa.
Monday, May 21, 2007
By Aaron Hanscom for Strategic Studies Group

Muslim worshippers exiting mosques in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta last month were
handed pamphlets titled "Do you believe the PP can defend the Muslims of Ceuta?" Juan Vivas, the Mayor-President of Ceuta, immediately accused the leftist political coalition responsible for putting out the pamphlets of trying to divide Ceuta "between Muslims and Christians." Indeed, the pamphlets cite as a warning a statute of the center-right Popular Party (PP) which declares that the PP "is influenced by the values of liberty, democracy, tolerance and Christian humanism from the Western tradition." Also on the pamphlets - and printed above a photo of José María Aznar, Tony Blair and George W Bush standing together at the Azores Summit - is the claim that former Prime Minister Aznar once asked Muslims to apologize for "the eight centuries of Al-Ándalus."

Aznar, in fact, never made such a demand. His remarks at the Washington-based Hudson Institute in September 2006 were meant to shine light on a double standard that exists in the world today: While Muslims constantly demand apologies from the West, they rarely feel compelled to apologize for their own actions. The truth is that Spaniards like Aznar are not the ones seeking apologies. Much rather, it is the Muslim world that is focused on the past, as the obsession of many Muslims to reconquer Al-Ándalus makes clear. the rest

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