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Jihadists
Target Spain
"The
actions of your ancestors are the reason for our actions today."
by Soeren Kern
• September 27, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The Islamic
State document said that since the establishment of the Spanish
Inquisition in 1478, Spain "has done everything to destroy the
Koran." It said that Spain tortured Muslims, including burning
them alive. Therefore, according to the Islamic State, "Spain
is a criminal state that usurps our land." The document calls
on jihadists to "reconnoiter airline and train routes for
attacks." It also calls on followers to "poison food and
water" with insecticides.
- "We will
kill any 'innocent' Spanish infidel we find in Muslim lands, and...
whether we are European in origin or not, we will kill you in your
cities and towns according to our plan." — Islamic State
document, May 30, 2016.
- "We will
recover al-Andalus, Allah willing. Oh dear Andalus! You thought we
forgot about you. I swear by Allah we have never forgotten you. No
Muslim can forget Córdoba, Toledo or Xàtiva. There are many faithful
and sincere Muslims who swear they will return to al-Andalus."
— Islamic State video, January 31, 2016.
- "Spain is
the land of our forefathers and we are going to take it back with
the power of Allah." — Islamic State video, January 7, 2016.
An armed, masked Islamic State jihadist appears in a
propaganda video, where he warns Spain that it would "pay a very
heavy price" for expelling Muslims from al-Andalus hundreds of years
ago. The Spanish subtitle above reads "Oh dear Andalus! You thought
we forgot about you. I swear by Allah we have never forgotten you. No
Muslim can forget Córdoba, Toledo or Xàtiva."
Islamic militants are stepping up a propaganda war against Spain. In
recent months, Islamic State and other jihadist groups have produced a
flurry of videos and documents calling on Muslims to reconquer al-Andalus.
Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given to those parts of Spain,
Portugal and France occupied by Muslim conquerors (also known as the
Moors) from 711 to 1492. Many Muslims believe that territories Muslims
lost during the Christian Reconquest of Spain still belong to the realm
of Islam. They claim that Islamic law gives them the right to
re-establish Muslim rule there.
by Burak Bekdil
• September 27, 2016 at 4:00 am
- "[I]n
spite of dire predictions by secularists, the [ruling] AKP did not
introduce conspicuous efforts to Islamize Turkey. But since 2011,
this has changed." — Svante E. Cornell, in "The
Islamization of Turkey: Erdogan's Education Reforms."
- In 2014,
Turkey's government introduced a scheme which forcibly enrolled
about 40,000 students at Islamic "imam schools," and
granted permission for girls as young as 10 to wear Islamic
headscarves in class.
- A new study by
the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found
that 43% of Turkish women aged between 15 and 29 were neither
working nor receiving education.
Turkish police and soldiers transport handcuffed
military officers, who are accused of participating in the failed July 15
coup d'état. (Image source: Haber Turk video screenshot)
One way the rise of Islamist authoritarianism in a country can be
seen is by the rise in the number of mosques, religious schools and
prisons -- coupled with a sharp decline in the quality of education. Turkey
is no exception.
Most recently, the Turkish government said that it would build 174
new prisons, increasing capacity by 100,000 convicts. This is Turkey's
reply to complaints that six convicts must share a cell built for three.
Convicts say they must sleep in turns in their bunk beds.
Before that, Turkey's government released nearly 40,000 convicted
criminals, in order to make space for tens of thousands of suspects,
including journalists, businessmen and academics, detained after the
failed coup of July 15.
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