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2004-07-22 Europe
Public outcry forces church to keep Moor Slayer's statue
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Posted by tipper 2004-07-22 1:37:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 A victory for civilization.
Posted by Lucky 2004-07-22 2:14:28 AM||   2004-07-22 2:14:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 If only we could get a Moore-slayer here... Probably have to use a D-9 dozer though, thats the only thing big enough to take lardass moore down.
Posted by OldSpook 2004-07-22 3:39:11 AM||   2004-07-22 3:39:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps they could replace his sword with a white flag.
Posted by A Jackson 2004-07-22 4:14:08 AM||   2004-07-22 4:14:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "The statue ... was deemed to be offensive to Muslims"

I think I must have missed Zapatero's impassioned speech in response to the threat of Islamic militancy to Spain, but I'm guessing he borrowed from Churchill:

"We will not fight them in the train stations, we will not fight them at the polling stations. We will not fight them in Iraq, and we will not fight them in our churches. We will ever surrender!"

At least that's on hold in Santiago de Compostela.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-07-22 12:58:47 PM||   2004-07-22 12:58:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Before anyone shouts about PCers changing history, lets be aware that theres no real historical evidence (AFAIK) that St James ever went to Spain, and he certainly never slew any Moors while he was alive - thats all based on him appearing in dreams to various Spanish warriors telling them to go fight.

OTOH, if we have to respect the Al Aqsa mosque ...;)
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-22 1:05:55 PM||   2004-07-22 1:05:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Statue has now become an official target.
Posted by danking70 2004-07-22 2:10:49 PM||   2004-07-22 2:10:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Liberalhawk

St James could not have been a Moor slayer but his
name was the battlecry of the Castilians during the Reconquista. He was the symbol of paople who fought for eight centuries to avoid falling into submission (Islam in Arabic). Pity that 21th century Spaniards had forgotten him.
Posted by JFM  2004-07-22 3:59:19 PM||   2004-07-22 3:59:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Santiago!
Posted by mojo  2004-07-22 4:20:56 PM||   2004-07-22 4:20:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Beloki!
Posted by Shipman 2004-07-22 5:11:05 PM||   2004-07-22 5:11:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey, if this dude can pump his own gas then St James can ace a few invading Moors.
Posted by .com 2004-07-22 5:17:44 PM||   2004-07-22 5:17:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 http://www.blindchicken.com/~ali/spain2003/santiago/dscn0625.jpg
Posted by Parabellum 2004-07-22 8:17:37 PM||   2004-07-22 8:17:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 
was deemed to be offensive to Muslims
By whom, exactly? A "good" moslem wouldn't have any reason to go into a church, so how can they see it and be "offended"?

I'm offended by a good portion of the moslems - starting with the Paleos and going right on through the Saudis. Think they'd be interested in removing themselves from public so as not to offend me?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-07-22 10:33:22 PM||   2004-07-22 10:33:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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