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Not gonna happen. Thanks for playing!
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"Sure. Why don't we pit the religions against eachother and start slaughtering eachother by the tens of thousands again." Why do they insist on doing that?
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Spain has relinquished its other colonies in Africa so it's probably a matter of time before it gives up possesion of the two enclaves in Africa. One hopes that the matter can be resolved peacefully between Spain and Morocco. It would be a stain in Morocco's history if it were to drive out the Spanish the way the Muslims and the Jews were forced to convert or driven out during the Spanish inquisition. Muslims ruled the region for over 700 years but were defeated after they became fragmented and started fighting one another. Other rulers of the region, in reverse chronological order, included the Visigoths, the Romans and the Greeks. Muslims can’t claim sovereignity over Spain no more than Romans or the Greeks can. Muslims may have genuine grievances over the loss of their homes and property and their treatment at the hands of the victors. However, they have satisfaction that under their rule the land flourished and attained a glory it never had before nor has had ever since. The region became the most advanced country in the continent and was regarded as the jewel of Europe. People came to admire its cities with their street lighting, drainage and sewage systems, its architecture, its bookshops and vast libraries, its public baths, gardens, parks and fountains. The country gave refuge to the Jews from the persecution they were subjected to in the rest of Europe and they flourished so well under Muslim protection that one Jewish writer pointed out "most emphatically that the legal and actual position of the Jews during the middle ages was much better in Muslim-Arab countries than in Christian Europe; and the 'Golden Age' of Judaism in Muslim Spain has become a phrase which has found its way even to the most popular accounts of Jewish history"
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The same as I answer most other territorial claims. It matters not who held a particular patch of land 200, 500, 1000 years ago. It matters what the people there today want. By his logic, most of the Mediterranean countries, including about 80% of the Arab world, should be returned to Italy, because they were part of the Roman Empire, which came before the Prophet. Nearly every piece of land has been "owned" by different Empires at different times. There is no one "fair" time you can wind the clock back to. Gibraltar should, in all logic, be Spanish. But the people who live on it today are clear that they want it to be British, and so it should say. The same logic operates, to the Spanish advantage this time, for Ceuta and Melilla. And Spain, even if you were to call it Al Andalus, should be governed from its own territory in the style to which its current inhabitants wish - which would, I think, be broadly Christian.
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