Muslims in Spain create Islamic political party

[Lenny]

Political Party Inspired by Islam Is Born in Granada

Spain's first national political party inspired by Islam has been born: "El Partido Renacimiento y Unión de España" (The Party of Revival and Union).

The stated goal of the party is to be the voice of "the minorities" of Spain. With this goal in mind, it will contest local elections across Spain in 2011. Presently, the party has plans to contest seats in Granada, Málaga, Madrid, Barcelona, Murcia, Valencia, Ovideo, and Toledo.

The party was registered in 2009, but it was not until Friday the 5th of March of this year that they "went public" in an official manner. A small restaurant in the Albaicín neighborhood in central Granada was chosen as the place to inaugurate the party's existence.

The party was founded by the writer, poet, and journalist Mostafa Bakkach El-Aamrani. He is the vice-president of the 'Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities'.

Born in Morocco, El-Aamrani obtained Spanish citizenship in 2001 and lives in Granada.

Source

[Puddle of Mudd]

The Spanish kicked them out once before, and they can do it again.

[Lenny]

Interview with Party Founder El-Aamrani (Spanish)
Entrevista con El-Aamrani aquí (para los que leen Castellano):

Highlights:

Q. Do you want to recapture 'Al-Andalus'?
El-Aamrani: No, of course not. That is absurd. This is not possible because there is presently no Caliphate [Unified Islamic State]. If there were, the Caliphate would have to solve the problems its own citizens face before worrying about 'Al-Andalus'. All we in this party want is for Spanish-Muslims and foreign-Muslims to live in peace and harmony with Spanish-Christians and foreign-Christians.

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According to El-Aamrani, there are 400,000 persons of Moroccan origin in Spain with the right to vote

Elsewhere in the interview and in these recent press articles, El-Aamrani describes his party as for "all minorities", even LatinAmericans and Jews(!) living in Spain -- but occasionally the mask comes off:

El-Aamrani has explained that among all the political organizations that presently exist in Spain, there is not one that explicitly defends the interests of Arabs, or those from Asia and Africa generally. So they remain "totally marginalized". Source

And for something less serious~
One funny thing is the acronym in Spanish when read in English:

el Partido Renacimiento y Unión de España (PRUNE) concurrirá a....

[Don]

The Spanish kicked them out once before, and they can do it again.

We took 700 years to do so, we were very few against plagues of them who came year after year from places like Arabia, Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Egipt, Nubia, Yemen, Siria... they were too many compared with the few of our ancestors.

Was not easy, but full of sacrifices and further inquisition and measures to ensure that they were kicked out totally and FOREVER.

Yes, we could kick them again, specially when they are still few and not hordes from all the Islamic world... but Our politicians won't let us do so.

I can assure you 1 single thing: our ancestors, the many generations that fought killed and died against the infinite ocean of those invaders coming from massive populations compared to the very few they -spaniards- were, would be ASHAMED that their sacrifices and efforts for almost 1000 years has been thrown to the shit case.

Some people in Spain uses the word of Alta Traición (High Treason).
I'm one of that opinion.
The highest treason not only to us, but to our honorable ancestors.

That deserves justice, vengeance and blood repair, as was blood the element they all threw to give us, their descendants a Spaniard Spain, now lost, in 10 years only, by the treason of a few.

[Murphy]

Alana is going to be pissed.

[curiousman]

The Spanish kicked them out once before, and they can do it again.

Insha'Allah

[Poltergeist]

Isn't this Muslim movement from Granada led by some kind of self-styled neo-Moors, ie. Spaniards who converted to Islam, rather than by immigrants?

[Antonine]

Europeans are decadent, if they do not reverse the process of decadence they will be defeated. Many Spanish seem to tolerate indecent behavior in their own communities--especially by guests from England and Ireland. Islamist parties are very radical and very pragmatic, some will cloak their doctrine and aims to gain acceptance. After that, they will then find a means to gain more power within the country.

Isn't this Muslim movement from Granada led by some kind of self-styled neo-Moors, ie. Spaniards who converted to Islam, rather than by immigrants?

I know that the Murabitun movement is established in Spain by European Muslims.

Source:

The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent - Walter Laqueur

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/vi...-laqueur-10909

[Amapola]

I am not surprised at all. This is the result of a long previous effort and the political action taken by the Spanish leftists through all these years (especially PSOE). It's shameful that the majority of "tired" Spaniards (there are milions) that would stand as independent candidates in the local elections to be opposed to this situation- would be called "xenophobe" and "fascist".

There is little to do.

[Anthropos]

I am not surprised at all. This is the result of a long previous effort and the political action taken by the Spanish leftists through all these years (especially PSOE). It's shameful that the majority of "tired" Spaniards (there are milions) that would stand as independent candidates in the local elections to be opposed to this situation- would be called "xenophobe" and "fascist".

There is little to do.

El-Aamrani: All we in this party want is for Spanish-Muslims and foreign-Muslims to live in peace and harmony with Spanish-Christians and foreign-Christians.

I thought that the Spanish socialists such as the PSOE were fiercely anti-traditional. I heard quite a lot to that effect. It's hard to believe that they should have created a political party inspired by Islam.