Sans parole, irony on

Submitted by Marie Claude (France), Apr 17, 2008 at 07:35

a visit in the city of Granada reveals the dominance of Islam over the christian world: church steeples were cut down, so that the mosques' minarets would dominate them. The message it sent was "sans parole" and very effective

it's obvious you don't know the place

Garnat Al-Yahud "the city of Jews", name given by the Maures replacing "Elvira" whose population was catholic and jewish under Visigoths rules.

The Maures didn't eliminate the preexisting populations, neither their religions. The visigoth city was a centre of both ecclesiastical and civil administration and also a military stronghold.

The Maures provided trade links with the Muslim world, particularly the gold trade with the sub-saharan areas south of Africa.

These were the times of "enlightened islam", that enabled University, Bibliothecs, wonderful architecture and gardens, that are held as "treasures" in the nowaday Spain.

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