Author: Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: December 30, 2005
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos'
efforts earlier this year to remove Hamas from the European Union's terrorist
list, have done little to change this terror outfit's agenda. It is not only
Palestine that children in the West Bank and Gaza are asked to liberate; now
they are asked to liberate Seville. The Hamas children's magazine, Al-Fateh,
in a recent issue, tells the children about the city called Asbilia (Seville,
Spain) and calls on them to free it, together with the whole country, from
the infidels and to reinstate Muslim rule.
This is how the magazine has the city Asbilia
telling its story to Hamas's children - "Salaam Aleykum my dear beloved.
I would like to introduce myself: I am the city Asbilia, the bride of the
country Andalus (Spain). In the past I was the Capital of the Kingdom of Asbilia.
the Arab Muslims, led by the hero-commander Musa bin Nusair, conquered me
in 713, after a siege, which lasted one month.
- In the year 646 of the Muslim calendar,
Ferdinand III besieged me and conquered me after a siege which lasted one
year and five months, and that was due to the strength of my fortifications
and my walls. This is when the Golden Age of the Muslims ended, and Asbilia
was lost by the Muslims."
And the story goes on: "However, Muslim
cultural _expression and symbols still remain witness to the superior Muslim
culture on my soil .I yearn that you, my beloved, *will call me to return,
together with the rest of the lost cities of the lost orchard [Andalus] to
the hands of the Muslims* so that joy and happiness will fill my land.
However, this story to liberate Spain, in
Arabic, in a form that children can easily relate to, describes the fatwa
issued by Yusuf Qaradawi on December 2, 2002. The fatwa, which the children's
story reiterates, follows the Muslim Brotherhood's teachings - which also
serve as the basis of Hamas' Charter.
Qaradawi calls on Muslims to conquer Europe,
saying : "Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and a victor after
being expelled from it twice - once from the south, from Andalusia, and a
second time, from the east, when it knocked several times on the doors of
Athens." Qaradawi ruled that Muslims should re-conquer "former Islamic
colonies to Andalus (Spain), southern Italy, Sicily, the Balkans and the Mediterranean
islands."
Indeed, the activities of Radical Islamist
movements in Spain are nothing new. In a series of speeches about the importance
of confronting Al Qaeda in Iraq, President George W. Bush acknowledged that
their aim is to "establish a totalitarian Islamic empire that reaches
from Spain to Indonesia."
However, this ideology is clearly not limited
to al Qaeda's terrorists. Al Fateh's call to return Seville "to the hands
of the Muslims" is no different than that of al-Qaeda's call to establish
the Caliphate. Hamas' interests also extend to the liberation and Islamization
of all occupied former Muslim territories, according to the dogma of the Muslim
Brotherhood from which Hamas originated.
Apparently encouraged by successful Jihad
against Israel, Hamas is now raising the ante, going international. Just as
they have indoctrinated a generation of Palestinian children to commit suicide
attacks against Israelis, they are now expanding their targets to include
the rest of the Caliphate - beginning with Spain. It is only a matter of time,
before today's Palestinian children, and others exposed to Hamas' publications
start offering themselves up for the next stage of Jihad in Spain.
