On Tue, 1 May 2007 11:01:21 +0100, Toby A Inkster
wrote:
>Jason wrote:
>
>> I read an article indicating that millions of Muslims now live in Spain
>> and their end goal is to take over that country without having to kill
>> anyone. Once over 50 per cent of the population of Spain are Muslims, they
>> will be able to vote into office fellow Muslims. It may take about 20 or
>> more years but it's my guess that they will eventually have total control
>> over Spain.
>
>I somehow think that this would take more than 20 years. Spain's Muslim
>population now stands at about 3%. Whatsmore, Spain's immigration rate is
>the highest in Europe, with almost half a million immigrants arriving each
>year. The majority of these immigrants come from Latin America and the EU.
>
>Whatsmore, the Spain is a monarchy. The King of Spain retains the right to
>veto any act of parliament; or to dissolve parliament and call a new
>election. The royal family, being Catholics, would likely object to the
>establishment of Islam as an official state religion.
Except of course that when the monarchy was restored there, it was as
a figurehead. All the European monarchies are.
>That said, Muslims have just as much right to "total control over Spain" as
>anyone else does -- particularly taking into account the fact that they
>ruled over Spain for hundreds of years before being driven out by the
>Christian kingdoms of Castille and Aragon. If you visit Spain, you can
>still see many of the Moorish (Islamic) palaces -- I particularly recommend
>visiting Aljaferķa in Zaragoza.
>
>> They already have taken over a country in Africa called the Sudan. They
>> used a different plan in Sudan. They have killed about a million of the
>> black people in the Sudan and forced millions of other black people in the
>> Sudan to leave the country.
>
>Assuming you're writing about the current Darfur conflict, I think you're
>misunderstanding the motivations behind it.
>
>Firstly, it is not (primarily) religiously motivated. Islam has been a
>popular religion in the Sudan for nearly 700 years -- it's nothing new.
>
>The current conflict is between Arab Muslims and Black African Muslims. If
>the Muslims in Sudan wished to strengthen their position, they'd surely be
>attacking the southern areas of Sudan, where the majority of the country's
>non-Muslim population live -- they wouldn't be attacking fellow Muslims.
>
>Although the conflict appears to have some racial motivation too, the main
>reason for the current conflict is that Darfur, an area in the west of the
>Sudan wants partial, or even total independence. This is because the people
>of Darfur view the Sudanese government as being economically neglectful of
>the region.
>
>"About a million of the black people" have not been killed -- the number is
>probably closer to 300,000. (Nonetheless that is 300,000 too many!) |