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Islamic State seeks revenge against Spain's 'Moor-Slayer'
By Raymond Ibrahim March 11, 2021
www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/islamic_state_seeks_revenge_against_spains_moorslayer.html
By Raymond Ibrahim March 11, 2021
www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/islamic_state_seeks_revenge_against_spains_moorslayer.html
Twenty twenty-one could be a particularly "dangerous" year for Spain, thanks to Islamic State terrorists posing as migrants entering via Europe with "instructions" to attack, among other targets, churches. A report highlights several example,s indicating an uptick in terrorist activities, adding, "[T]he fact that we are immersed in a pandemic does not seem to stop the jihadist threats."
One of the more recent threats concerns Santiago de Compostela, a Christian shrine in Galicia, in the farthest northwest of the peninsula. Several messages among Muslim migrants mentioning it as a potential target have been intercepted, placing the pilgrimage site on high alert and tightening restrictions concerning foreign visitors from hotspot nations such as Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
That Muslim terrorists are specifically focused on Santiago de Compostela is not surprising. Not only is it one of the most important Christian pilgrimage sites — and therefore an ideal target of the jihad — but the shrine (now cathedral) figures prominently in the historic wars between Christians and Muslims in Spain.
Even the saint it is named after and whose body is said to rest there, James the Greater (son of Zebedee), figures in the wars of these times. Indeed, because he was widely believed to have appeared on a snow-white charger, slaughtering thousands of Muslims at the battle of Clavijo in 844, Spain's patron saint has for centuries been better known as Santiago Matamoros — that is, Saint James the Moor-Slayer.
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One of the more recent threats concerns Santiago de Compostela, a Christian shrine in Galicia, in the farthest northwest of the peninsula. Several messages among Muslim migrants mentioning it as a potential target have been intercepted, placing the pilgrimage site on high alert and tightening restrictions concerning foreign visitors from hotspot nations such as Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
That Muslim terrorists are specifically focused on Santiago de Compostela is not surprising. Not only is it one of the most important Christian pilgrimage sites — and therefore an ideal target of the jihad — but the shrine (now cathedral) figures prominently in the historic wars between Christians and Muslims in Spain.
Even the saint it is named after and whose body is said to rest there, James the Greater (son of Zebedee), figures in the wars of these times. Indeed, because he was widely believed to have appeared on a snow-white charger, slaughtering thousands of Muslims at the battle of Clavijo in 844, Spain's patron saint has for centuries been better known as Santiago Matamoros — that is, Saint James the Moor-Slayer.
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