Spain and its Proud Islamic/Moorish/Arab Past (Spain is Not a Very European Place)

and they're this very flamenco music may have Muslim roots there are some Spaniards who are a little resentful of the touristic obsession with Spain's Moorish past take the Great Mosque at Cordoba you'll find plenty of Spaniards keen to point out there is now a Roman Catholic cathedral built on the site of an even earlier Christian Church dating from the time of the Visigoths whom the Moors had superseded and somehow that misses the point that this mosque is one of the most extraordinary religious buildings honor it structures like this that gave medieval Cordoba the name the ornament of the world with its fountains thousands of libraries well paved well lit streets it made places like London that frankly barbaric and under the Catholic Monarchs and General Franco it was the Muslim contribution that was airbrushed out of history and Catholicism became a state-sponsored religion I was born in a generation and the Franco regime where everybody was forced to be Catholic where any other religion different than Catholicism was forbidden and even you could go into prison do you have any outward manifestation of any other religion even today when Spain's Muslim heritage generates so many millions of tourist dollars you can detect a certain local sniffing 'us about our moorish obsessions don't forget the Visigoths they cry they put to the few defaced lumps that remain in the era of the Christian barbarians as they're the nine hundred year Arab presence was a kind of aberration las populace askew porous copulas a poor ahem promo psycho todo se trajeron a lo mejor all febray be Santino's pegado Paula Galen Ciaran ESO trabajo luego de novo Co yada be nada de nada si no dinero y Pagar lo mejor que vea en la que el momento en el mundo y puede la herencia Musso mauna kea claro pero él fuera bueno kopi ando mucho de los Roboto mucho de los hermanos all's no romano no Vieira anteclo hockey and alkie CC you think this much of the culture is is is Islamic no no no no no no it arrives from ancient visit God funny ancient Christian yeah he and the VC go to and they in the north the fan TKE pienso que quitar el de da de Mesilla me puede maceda importancia sobre todo note a momento en este see blow a la prominent iya de la cultura en de islamic ax assist ido Ateneo muchas horas in port on TC aqui esta Barrios Cunha Meza como no spa drop asado mejor dentro de los siglos con la multicolor to Derrida the sheer ignorance that exists in this country about Islam about this landing pads down in that serve that and that's a pity is surprising to which extent people ignore city reaching themselves the Islamic civilization people want to somehow stress these Visigothic heritage but obviously the Pacific heritage is pretty straight is pretty difficult to work out what it is to do that's a little bit down yeah many people are proud of the Moorish past but that's not to say they look forward to a Moorish future we make the difference no no we but people in general made this difference that's the hombro was made for another Moorish people but not this Moorish people not the Moroccans who come and living in modern yeah maybe they have a kind of problem with these people it's a question of patriotism people with things like it Spain is like my region yeah my god yeah and they want like very white and perfect people they don't want no Muslim or not anyone to come here but maybe it's a half his pain things that is alright and the other half is pain is like afraid of this maybe they're just a scare

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Keywords: Alhambra, Moors, Arabic, european television, analysis, close circuit television, romantic music, discussion, russia, politics, commentary, religion, tourism, Spain, Flamenco

Id: AS07hDVoJcM

Length: 4min 49sec (289 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 27 2011