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A Fatwa in Spain
Aaron Hanscom, 2006-09-04 (Monday), FrontPageMagazine
Police protection and armored cars have been regular features in Gustavo de Arístegui’s life for the past decade. This is because the author and Foreign Affairs Spokesman for Spain’s conservative Partido Popular has devoted a large part of his 25 year career denouncing radical Islam. After the publication of Arístegui’s latest book The Jihad in Spain: The obsession to reconquer Al-Ándalus, Yusuf Fernandez, the spokesman for the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities, branded him an “enemy of Islam.” Then last week came the discovery of death threats against the Spanish politician on encrypted Jihadist websites based in Saudi Arabia. I spoke with Mr. Arístegui by phone on Monday about the threats facing his country and himself.

Q: Why are radical Islamists obsessed with reconquering Spain and why should this obsession be a concern for all Westerners?

A: It’s very much about the objectives and goals that they have and that to a large extent the West has not understood. They want to:
A) Overthrow governments that they consider anti-Islamic, corrupt, and above all apostate. Therefore, in considering governments and regimes apostate they are entitled, even obliged, to overthrow them and destroy their leaders.
B) Reconquer any kind of country or territory that has at any time in its history been under the domain of Islam.
C) Reestablish the caliphate.
D) Extend their domain and power over the whole world.

So, yes, the symbolism of Spain is extremely important to them. Spain was under the domain of Islam for 800 years. It’s not just Andalucía as some people say. It is almost all of Spain. And if we are to consider the whole of Europe, then it would be 4/5 of the Iberian Peninsula, some parts of the South of France, half of Italy, all the Balkans, and definitely all the islands of the Mediterranean. We are facing a very serious threat.

To understand the risks that we face, we’ve got to read what our enemies have to say about us. Ayman al-Zawahiri said in his book Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet that Europe had become a spiritual vacuum that only Islam could fill and that Europe is the new frontier of Islam, the new land of conquest, and above all the new battleground of the global jihad. Europe is the weakest link in the chain because it has 27 million Muslims of which some have a certain degree of sympathy for radical ideas. Therefore, they think that when Europe actually becomes a continent with a very important Muslim minority, it will be a very easy target and its land very easy to conquer.

Q: Describe what you call the “síndrome andalusí” or the obsession for lost glory. Who is guilty of perpetuating the myth of Al-Ándalus?

A: Many people, not only Muslim scholars. Romantic scholars were guilty of perpetuating the myth. Just take a look at the 19th century novelists and intellectuals who were obsessed with medieval times. (An example is Sir Walter Scott and his famous novel Ivanhoe.) That had an exact equivalent among the Muslim scholars and intellectuals who were Romantic. They had an obsession with medieval Spain and the importance that Al-Ándalus had as the highlight of their civilization.

Western intellectuals have also had a grave responsibility in perpetuating this myth. Some books like The Ornament of the World, which is very well-known in the United States and has been awarded and praised, are completely false. It is not true that medieval Spain was a perfect and peaceful coexistence between the three most important monotheistic religions. Muslims only tolerated Jews and Christians when they were very powerful and not so much when they were not so powerful. It had a lot to do with the political and historical moment. They myth of Al-Ándalus is a very dangerous myth because people tend to think that everyone else was responsible for the lost glory of Al-Ándalus. They believe that Spaniards who were not Muslims or those who had been Muslim in the past and converted to other religions such as Christianity are to blame for the loss of that glory and the preeminence that they had historically until the 15th century. It is extremely dangerous because self-criticism does not exist in a large part of the Muslim world. They believe that everybody else is to blame for the tragedies that they suffered, and one of those is definitely the loss of Al-Ándalus.

People tend to forget what Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri say. There are a great deal of communiqués of Al-Qaeda signed by these two individuals which clearly state that the loss of Al-Ándalus was a tragedy. Zawahiri recently said that Islamic land had to be reconquered from “Al-Ándalus to Iraq.” This is a very serious threat that not only Spain and Europe, but all serious, advanced, and modern democracies should take very seriously.

Q: Please tell us about the buying of land and houses and the controlling of neighborhoods and cities as a way of regaining Spain. Why is the resilamification of the mosque of Córdoba so important to ultra-conservative Muslims?

A: They call it the policy of the “foot in the threshold.” Once the foot is in the threshold, they think they will be able to get in there and reconquer Spain. I state in The Jihad in Spain that there is a part of the University of Al-Azhar in Egypt that is obsessed with a very clear strategy to reconquer land that was once under the domain of Islam. But this is becoming more and more popular in many parts of the Islamic world. They believe that conquering a neighborhood, then a town, then a city, then a province, and then a region will eventually lead to the reconquest of the whole country.

Recently, there was a research program carried out by the Spanish television channel Telecinco. One of the reporters questioned many Muslims off camera. They said that because they had been able to conquer Albaicín (a very important and prominent neighborhood in Granada) they would absolutely be able to conquer the city and then all of Al-Ándalus. As the expression goes: Andalucía first, Al-Ándalus thereafter.

I want to quote Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister from 1998 to 2005 and member of the Green Party. He said that if by any chance Israel were to be fall and be defeated, the next in line would definitely be Spain.

Q: How have multiculturalism and political correctness allowed the penetration of radical Islam into Spain and lowered the country’s defenses?

A: Multiculturalism and political correctness are the most tried systems for coexistence in Europe and they both have failed miserably. Multiculturalism is in many ways a return to the Middle Ages. It means in fact that whoever is a Christian, a Jew, or a Muslim is going to be ruled by laws and courts of justice that are either Christian, Jewish or Muslim. This is preposterous. It is very much like the communities in which the Ottoman Empire was divided up into.

The Western Left has chosen to see radical Islamism as the only enemy capable of confronting the West, the United States, and its allies. They truly believe that it is in many ways their ally. If you are to observe the way that Venezuela, Bolivia and other countries dominated by populist regimes have acted, you will see that they vote consistently with countries like Iran or Syria, which are very anti-Western.

Political correctness and the obsession of the Left with radical Islamism are deactivating the self-defense capabilities of Western democracies. By not denouncing radicals and the movements that are clearly linked to radical associations, institutions, and even terrorist organizations, the West is getting closer to being dominated by them.

Q: How has the Left in Spain responded to the recent death threats made against you?

A: The radical Left has joined forces with radical Islamists against me. When they saw the popular and overwhelming reaction of so many people in Spain supporting me—even from the moderate Left, they thought things had gotten out of hand. As a result, they decided to discredit me and the reality of these threats that have been confirmed by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior. The Minister of the Interior called to tell me that the Spanish Police Intelligence has found these threats which are on several Jihadist websites that are encrypted and based in Saudi Arabia. Their message is clear: I need to be killed. The Spanish Minister of Defense, who was the Interior Minister for two years, also called me to show his solidarity and support.

I deplore the very fact that these extremists from the far Left in Spain have decided to join forces with those that attack democracy, because no matter how deep our differences may be we are supposed to be on the same side.

Q: Do you think there is a chance that radical Islamists will one day achieve their dream and Spain will once again be under Islamic rule?

A: I don’t think so, but the fight will become more difficult and extensive because Spanish society today is not willing or ready to accept the threat we face. People here have become prosperous in a very short time. Spain is the eighth most prosperous nation in the world. We have a per capita income of around $28,000 a year. People want to pay their mortgages, go out on Friday night, take 15 to 30 days off a year from work, buy nice cars, and generally enjoy the good life. They are not listening to those of us who are in some ways apocalyptic. But it is our job.

I’m not going to compare myself to Churchill; it would be extremely preposterous if I ever did. But in many ways I do feel that some of the intellectuals and politicians who are denouncing this century’s threats against democracy are facing the same criticisms that Churchill once faced before the Nazi threat was evident to the whole world. While some people are quite aware of the huge danger that Islamism represents for a large part of the world, they don’t believe it is capable of jeapordizing their way of life or their liberties and freedoms in the 21st century. In fact, this is very much the case.

Aaron Hanscom is a freelance writer in Los Angeles.

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2006-10-26President Bush on Iraq
2007-04-04The Next World Order
2007-03-15The Jihad Genocide of the Armenians
2007-03-15Deadly Mistake -- Newsweek’s erroneous report and apology demonstrates journalistic cluelessness
2007-03-17Why Europe chooses extinction
2007-05-01Attack on Iran is the next step in divide and conquer of Middle East
2007-05-03Timeline: Al-Qaeda
2007-04-25Economic Hit Men -- An interview with John Perkins
2007-04-27The Dutch-Muslim Culture War
2007-04-17Commission Adopts Resolutions On Combating Defamation Of Religions; Right To Development
2007-04-15Eye on Iran, Rivals Pursuing Nuclear Power
2007-04-16Germany should be the locomotive
2007-01-29None (but Me) Dare Call It Treason
2007-01-18Annotate This: Escalation in Iraq
2007-01-11Transcript of President Bush’s Address to Nation on U.S. Policy in Iraq
2007-02-20Russia's hudna with the Muslim world
2007-02-01Chirac Unfazed by Nuclear Iran, Then Backtracks
2007-02-07Black Man's History
2007-03-15Party of Defeat -- AEI's weird celebration
2007-03-13The Demography of Europe
2007-03-08Two faces of Arab intellectuals
2007-03-01The core issue between Israel and the Palestinians
2007-08-13America’s illusory strategy in Iraq
2007-08-14The virtues of the Mediterranean union
2007-08-08Germany Left Out of Global Policy Loop
2007-08-05The End of Cowboy Diplomacy
2007-05-26Those pesky puppies of war
2007-05-17Rehabilitating US Imperialism
2007-05-05Don't Be Fooled by Propaganda
2007-05-17Us And Them -- Chapter One -- "that's Our Biggest Difference"
2007-06-11Permission -- The Guidebook for Taking a Life
2007-06-18Israel-Lebanon conflict - timeline of events
2007-06-17Gen. Wesley Clark Weighs Presidential Bid: "I Think About It Everyday
2007-07-31CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
2007-07-31Franco – Arab Ties Could Yet Survive Sarkozy’s U-Turn
2007-07-26President Bush Discusses War on Terror in South Carolina
2007-06-22Rice Talks With Journal's Editorial Board
2007-07-08Bin Laden's Fatwa
2007-07-06Liberalism vs Islamism
2007-07-04Renewing American Leadership
2007-07-04Grand Strategy for a Divided America
2008-08-06Douglas Feith's War and Decision: Life in a Neocon's Parallel Universe
2008-08-10Shattering a 'national mythology'
2008-08-21The Gaza concentration camp: ancient colonialism through a Nazi filter
2008-07-30THE BIG LIE ABOUT `ISLAMIC FASCISM’
2008-02-27Definition of "Islam" and Challenges for Multi-culturalism
2008-02-29Fundamentalism: Contrasting Christianity and Islam
2008-03-24Globalization And The Development Of Underdevelopment Of The Third World
2008-03-23Muslim's conversion conflict hits Vatican on Easter
2008-03-25A Muslim Critic Turns Catholic
2008-03-28'Condemning Islam, Per Se, Is Unhelpful'
2008-03-22Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience
2008-03-22AN IRREVERENT LOOK AT RELIGION IN THE NETHERLANDS
2008-03-19The new liberal imperialism
2008-05-17The world health report 2007 : a safer future : global public health security in the 21st century.
2008-04-28Latin America: the attack on democracy
2008-04-23Islamophobia and Arabophobia: Laying The Groundwork - Us vs. Them
2008-04-23The Clash of Civilizations: Some Beginnings of Psychological Analysis
2008-04-05The Turkish Experiment with Westernization
2008-04-07Famine, food and fertilizer
2008-03-31BLOOD BROTHERS
2008-04-14How Benedict XVI Will Make History
2008-04-09The Arab-Israeli Conflict: It Was Never about Borders
2008-04-08Globalists Created Wahhabi Terrorism to Destroy Islam and Justify a Global State
2008-07-09Shackled Warrior
2008-06-26Jerusalem: The Final Frontier
2008-06-24Chomsky Speaks -- On Iraq, Iran and Norman Finkelstein
2008-06-05Remarks By John McCain at AIPAC
2008-06-06Stumbling toward Eurabia
2008-05-21The Real World: OPEC, Master of Universe
2008-05-25President Bush Addresses Members of the Knesset
2008-05-31The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality
2007-10-04Open Fire
2007-10-09SYRIA: Regime interests dictate regional policies
2007-11-12FETHULLAH GULEN AND HIS LIBERAL "TURKISH ISLAM" MOVEMENT
2007-11-12NATO Expands into Arab South
2007-11-13The new wars of religion
2007-11-07Drawing Borders with Other People’s Blood: A Brief Comment on Ralph Peters’s 'Blood Borders'
2007-10-24CNN Larry King Live -- Interview with Vicente Fox
2007-09-24Betrayed -- The Iraqis who trusted America the most
2007-09-25Distorting Desire
2007-09-08Does independence beckon?
2007-09-07Israel’s cost to the Arabs
2008-02-08Eurabia - Europe's Future? -- A briefing by Bat Ye'or
2008-02-08Theorizing Islam
2008-02-07Danger woman
2008-02-04Going bankrupt: The US's greatest threat
2008-01-24The Three Rs: Rivalry, Russia, ’Ran
2008-01-31The North American Union and the Larger Plan
2008-01-04Why Iraq? Oil and U.S. Foreign Policy
2008-01-21Stabilization and Democratization: Renewing the Transatlantic Alliance
2008-01-21Strategic Communication
2007-11-21No retreat from 'reciprocity' challenge
2007-11-16The Crisis Of Pakistan: A Dangerously Weak State
2007-11-22Towards fresh disaster in Iran
2007-11-26Norwegian Jihad -- Transcript