Muslims insult everybody else 5 times a day:
The Fatiha (Opening) is the first sura (chapter) of
the Quran and most common prayer of Islam. If
youre a pious Muslim who prays the five requisite
daily prayers of Islam, you will recite the Fatiha
seventeen times in the course of those prayers.
From Wafa Sultans book A God Who Hates
pg. 168:
A Muslim prays five times a day, and on each
occasion he recites the Fatiha, the first verse of
the Koran, a number of times. This verse describes
Christians as those who have gone astray and
Jews as those who have incurred Your wrath.
We see from this that Muslims execrate Christians
and Jews a number of times in the course of a
single prayer, which they repeat five times a day.
Eboo Patel, once deemed the United States the
ideal place for the renewal of Islam.
Patel believes (as evidently Obama does) that America
is a great place to revive islam to it's former power
and glory.
From Obamama's Cairo Speech:
"Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it
in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the
Inquisition."
Which of course is a load of crap because anyone
that does a real study of the history of Islamic
occupation of the Iberian peninsula during that
time knows full well that there was no tolerance
by its Islamic rulers against the other religions.
First a little history of why the muslims conquered
Spain:
By 710AD, Jews and Christians had been in the
Iberian peninsula for a few hundred years and the
Visigoth king Rodrigo ruled from the capital Toledo.
Emir Musa ruled North Africa from Kairouan in Tunisia.
He saw that Spain was ripe for plunder with great
financial wealth, and beautiful girls aplenty for the
Harems in Kairouan and Damascus.
Musa then received permission from the Caliph Walid
who ruled from Damascus, and then chose Tariq, a
Berber, who was a former Algerian slave, but now a
fierce warrior and a recent convert to Islam, to lead
his army. They sent a small force of a few hundred
men on a raid, and when they returned loaded with
riches and pretty girls, Musa was much impressed.
So the invasion of Al-Andalus (valley of Vandals)
was not so much about converting the infidel to
Islam, but the focus was on booty, women and
slaves to be delivered back to Damascus.
The first major battle was against the Visigoth king
Rodrigo, and took place near the river Rio Barbate,
which is in the Xeres district, now famous for its
sherry.
Rodrigo and his army was no match for the fierce
Berbers and were easily defeated, with casualties
in the tens of thousands. Rodrigo himself is believed
to have drowned in the river attempting to escape.
His horse, robes and diadem were found on the river
bank.
On the way Cordoba was captured, and Toledo was
easily taken. The booty was fabulous and included
a gold and emerald table from the Temple of Solomon.
Musa returned to Damascus with tons of booty,
Visigoth dignitaries as prisoners and 3,000 Spanish
virgins.
From 756AD to 1031AD, there was a series of Islamic
leaders of Cordoba (Umayyads of Cordoba).
Some of their highlights include:
Hisham I (788-796) - He called for Holy War against
Asturias and France, and assembled 100,000 warriors
from even Syria, Arabia and Algeria, and attacked
Narbonne and Carcassone and won enough booty
to fund a new mosque in Cordoba.
Al-Hakam (796-822) - He became known for the
Day of the Ditch where he beheaded 5,000
converts to Islam in Toledo on suspicion of
treachery.
Almanzor (967-1002) - He beheaded 4,000 Christians
after taking Zamora. He won the battle near Simancus
and again beheaded about 4,000 Christians. Almanzor
also razed the Christian shrine city of Santiago de
Compostela which was to the Christians like the
Kaaba was to the Muslims.
Conversion to Islam was encouraged by the
Ummayad caliphs and Emirs of Córdoba. Many
Christians converted to Islam to avoid the Jizya
tax which they were subjected to as Dhimmis.
Apostasy, however, for one who had been raised
as a Muslim or had embraced Islam, was a crime
punishable by death, which is still the same today
for a child unfortunate enough to be born to a
moslem father.
From the point of view of the Muslim rulers, jizya
was a material proof of the non-Muslims' acceptance
of subjection to the state and its laws. Non-Muslims
were also not allowed to build any new places of
worship.
In Al-Andalus, the large numbers of Christians
adopting Islam to escape the Jizya tax and
treatment of Dhimmitude prompted concern among
the authorities about the weakening of the tax base
and further inflamed resentment towards the Muwallads.
The Muwallads were in almost constant revolts
against the Arab and Berber immigrants who had
carved out large estates for themselves, farmed
by Christian slaves.
In 1011, there was a massacre of Jews in Cordoba:
which was followed by other slaughters in other
parts of Al Andalus, notably in Granada in 1066.
The famous Jewish scholar, Maimonides originally
lived in Cordoba in the early 12th century, until
the Almohades dynasty took the city, and
threatened to kill any Jews who did not leave or
convert to Islam. Maimonides family relocated to
the more tolerant university city of Fes, in Morocco.
The Berbers, who held strictly to Islamic teachings,
terrorised and looted Cordoba until the city fell and
the Umayyad dynasty came to an end in 1031AD.
When Toledo was recaptured in 1085AD, and Seville
had become the centre of Moorish culture, they
sought help from North Africa. However the
Almoravids were horrified when they entered Seville
and noticed Jews and Christians trading freely in
the markets, selling musical instruments and wine.
A Fatwa was obtained and the Almoravids gained
control of all Muslim lands and even taking back
Valencia from the Christians.
This was followed by the even stricter Almohads
who in turn fought and defeated the Almoravids
in bloody Jihad.
But eventually the Reconquista proved unstoppable
and soon only the southern Taifa of Granada was
left in Muslim hands.
Eventually Ferdinand and Isabella forced Mohammed
XII (Boabdil) to surrender and he even gave them
the keys to the palace before fleeing to Fez in
Africa. Islam no longer controlled any part of Spain.
Was there a Golden Age of tolerance that Obama
is talking about?
What can be concluded is that under the Umayyads
of Abdul Rahman III, civilization flourished for only
about 100 years because true Islam was not
practised, and indeed to Jews and Christians
dhimmitude was not as severe, and they mixed
with Muslim scholars; Literature, Medicine, Science
and Astronomy advanced; Poetry and Music
flourished (not banned); Wine was drunk for
pleasure (not banned) Indeed, it could be said
that:
the Golden Age happened in spite of Islam,
NOT because of Islam.
When Cordoba was sacked, the scholars moved
base to Toledo after 1085AD where science and
literature flourished under Christian rule, NOT Islam.
Scholars came from Europe to embrace new ideas
then spread this throughout Europe.
But, in any case, this was long before the
Spanish Inquisition, which started in 1478.
Cordoba had been reconquered by Spain in
1236. The city was not under Muslim rule
during the Inquisition.
