Friday, October 27, 2006

1492 and all that...

From the blog What Would Charles Martel Do we have a look at a Christian Science Monitor article on American Hispanics becoming Muslims which includes this choice little line...

Many Hispanics ... who are becoming Muslim, would say they are embracing their heritage, a heritage that was denied to them in a sense," says Ihsan Bagby, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky.
Ah yes. Let me get this straight. You're in America, but you came from Mexico. And being from Mexico part of your family (depending on the amount of Indian blood you possess) is from Spain. And most of Spain was ruled by varying Muslim kingdoms between the eighth and thirteenth centuries before being regulated to a tiny kingdom in the south that fell in 1492.
So by that reasoning I should be worshipping Jove.

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