Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,654
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Re: Why Western Art is Unique, and Why Muslim Immigration Threatens It
I'm not sure that I understood if she defends the myth of the peaceful coexistence in Al Andalus, or if she denies it.
In any case, it was a myth for the three religions. Not only for Islam and Christianism. Jews decided to serve the Christian kings when things went wrong for them in the Muslim independent kingdoms (kingdoms of Taifas, after the fall of the Caliphate). But it didn't take them long to create trouble and unrest. The attack of the Cathedral of Toledo by a Jewish mob in 1391 is just but one example.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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