Spain's Islamic legacy source of controversy | Focus on Europe

Andalusia has a rich Islamic past. Its Mosque of Cordoba is world-famous. But now that some Arab countries have donated money to restore such architectural treasures, Spain's right-wing populists are stoking fears.
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[@perobusmaximus]

As soon as Emirates or Qatar start sponsoring Sevilla and Malaga football teams, they get happy again.

[@marioformosa4259]

Yes F*** the football teams!!!

[@mohamedshelare153]

Hey litte rat Islam is the increasing religion in the world you cant stop Qatar and UAE are way better then Spain so are u jelouse

[@thekingofmoney2000]

MOHAMMED Yusouf If you mean more vulgar with their skyscrapers and modern junk, then yes!

[@mustafanizambijunizam3475]

@@mohamedshelare153 my brother, kindly put a coma after Islam, or else the meaning of the sentence changes altogether.

[@Taliban.The.Hyperpower]

LOLOLOLOL

[@francescoanziutti8480]

When a beautiful and rich artistic and cultural heritage that is centuries old becomes a source of controversy... don't you have better things to do? Like you know, focusing on the real problems that are affecting spain and europe in general? God, people's priorities are messed up nowdays

[@eaglecondor6754]

Hu? Like the rise of far right racist ideologies across Europe is not a real issue facing European societies???

[@madslauridsen6550]

@@eaglecondor6754 sounds like Francesco is arguing the same as you. No?

[@arthurheidt6373]

@@eaglecondor6754 the left is also racist

[@madslauridsen6550]

@@arthurheidt6373 you're a clown. Are you trying to say that racism is okay because it's on both sides of the political spectrum? 😂

[@madslauridsen6550]

@@arthurheidt6373 use your words better, my guy.

[@zyrexganit5289]

Iberia and Anatolia switched religions

[@mustafaercumen3187]

There is difference between them. Anatolia was volunteer to Islam. But İberians with Arabs and İberians has forced to convert

[@zyrexganit5289]

@@mustafaercumen3187 Oh I see, thanks for the info😊.

[@TheMarusero]

@Sultan Mehmad II it was a violent conquest, otherwise they wouldn't had fight over 500 years in order to liberate themselves

[@sayidadam3728]

@@TheMarusero i need some sources. revisionist or just gloussing text. im not judge but can you give me for reserch by my self

[@andreeiras2735]

It's not Spain it's Iberia. There was no Spain in those times

[@hudayiask536]

This recommended by youtube after hagia sophia event. hmmmmmmm

[@abbad707]

same, I was talking about this kardesim. If Hagia Sophia has to be a museum make Cordobá "Church" a museum

[@hakim2546]

Same

[@arifjonatan9300]

@@abbad707 Cordoba church was initially a visigoth church, then a moor mosque, and then back to a cathedral. So it's not exactly the same.

[@SigandGibbs]

Hagia Sophia was made by Greeks. Like most things in turkey

[@technics291]

@@SigandGibbs Western Turkey mostly

[@jubhgioubgob]

They boast proudly of their brutal colonial legacy but can’t take this? It’s history, they should profit from it instead of being so negative.

[@ppaaccoojrf]

Funny, you can interpret this comment in two completely different ways.

[@josecarlosrodriguez6937]

So you think the arab colonial legacy was all peace and the spanish one was brutal? Well, Columb influenced the whole world up to know. Whats left from the 700 years Al Andalus? Nothing!

[@moshak1455]

@@josecarlosrodriguez6937 true, no where near as much. Colombus is responsible for murdering over a 1 million indigenous people in his lietime. His successors would go on to kill over 100 million people in the next 100 years. That's how he and his kind influenced people. Arabs never did anything close to that brutal and were at the time the most tolerant by far out of all of the people in the world. It's not even close.

[@someguy2744]

@@josecarlosrodriguez6937 You gotta give the Arabs some credit in terms of influence. From Morocco to Pakistan, the Arabic script is used. North Africa now speaks Arabic - similar to how Central and South America speaks Spanish and uses the Latin script (although the Latin script originates from Romans, which originates from the Etruscans, which originates from Greeks, which originates from Phoenicians, which originates from Proto-Sinaitic, which originates from Egyptian hieroglyphs ; Arabic also ultimately derives from Egyptian hieroglyphs - so when it comes to script we are all just stealing from the Egyptians). But also the Turks/Ottomans took over most of what was Arabic (expanding during 1300-1683). But the Spaniards are not without loss since you lost quite a bit of territory to the USA (Texas, California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, Phillipines, Cuba)

[@eliseomartinez7911]

moshak 1 Spaniards guaranteed the rights of native Americans the Emperor Charles V signed a royal decree for it. Disease killed 95% of the natives not the sword.

[@freetube5304]

"Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence."- *Ibn Rushd* (Andalusian Polymath)

[@dontletherspeak7575]

And violence leads to victory! Reconquista!!!!

[@rainbowbloom575]

Fascism is only a win for the rich minority bc it means they get to blame other people for country issues, and the masses vibe with it (even though we clearly know who are at fault)

[@el_chico1313]

yoda

[@Alfakta23]

​@@dontletherspeak7575 No second reconquista this time. Only Al Andalusia.

[@dontletherspeak7575]

Odds not in your favour bruh. @@Alfakta23

[@FcoAngelPD]

Error: The mosque is not at the outskirts of the city. It is, actually, quite centric. It’s really small though.

[@imperator692]

@Sumeet tanwar And why shouldn't they if the church bells are allowed?

[@adrianalainez8499]

Also it was a church first. Like it or not.

[@abbad707]

@@adrianalainez8499 It was built by the Moors? stop stealing history smh and then disliking it but profiting of that history. Hypocrites

[@9grand]

@@imperator692 Historical privilege and they do not yell at 5 p.m!

[@abbad707]

@Sumeet tanwar ??? What are you even talking bout, lol

[@DefCon1Shooter]

Everyone seriously arguing over events that happened over 500 years ago has lost control over their life...

[@perperson199]

History never stays in the past. That's part of the joy of Europe

[@thekingofmoney2000]

Europe and Asia have history, unlike America. We actually study history and geography in Europe.

[@mateosanfitz9625]

@@thekingofmoney2000 America also has history dummy

[@fisebilillah4406]

Unfortunately, instead of preserving their own heritage, they want to destroy it.

[@mateosanfitz9625]

@@thekingofmoney2000 in fact, arguing that there was nothing going on in the Americas before the European arrived is a white supremacist talking point. There were multitude of cultures that lived in N. America, and plenty of them were settling cultures with crops etc, similarly developed like the ones in Eurasia or Africa 😌

[@benaffleckisanokayactor]

How can the past "pose as a danger"?

[@rmcewan10]

Ask los Señores Abascal y Ortega Smith. They both seem abnormally interested in the Reconquista and the years of Franquismo.

[@Wasserkaktus]

Memories and how they are perceived and portrayed are what is dangerous.

[@mohammadyusuf1299]

🤪🤪🤪 funny

[@Aki8994]

Because the past show that there can be asimilations between 2 different cultures to create a new, more enriched one. This goes agains the far right speech of "Look they are coming to destroy our culture" case in point the spanish word for pillow is Almohada an almost arabic word. Medieval Spain is an example of how a culture can't displace another one even by force.

[@MaximilianOOO491]

It doesn’t. Ignorant ppl always feel threatened by “the other”.

[@reshanbiran6873]

No OnE ExPeCTeD ThE SpANish INQuiSItioN

[@jdheryos4910]

Martin Luther was better at mass murder. Give him a ring instead.

[@guillegui6487]

And no one talks about the protestant inquisition too lololol

[@jdheryos4910]

Calvin personally executed 500 people in Geneva. That was just a small fraction the Calvinists slaughtered over the centuries.

[@hwanyoonchung6291]

Our chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear. Our two weapons are surprise and fear and ruthless efficiency. Three. Our three weapons are...

[@blackboxsda7853]

@@hwanyoonchung6291 Cardinal, read the charge!

[@ABDULREHMAN-by7zk]

It's still written on the walls of that first building walls لا غالبه الاالله , "There is no victor but Allah "

[@aa-zz6328]

Correction "there is no victor but God". Ok. 👍

[@muhammadaiman6713]

@@aa-zz6328 allah=god. It just name in arabic

[@aa-zz6328]

@@muhammadaiman6713 yes! So when you are speaking in English, use the English name.

[@muhammadaiman6713]

@@aa-zz6328 why so? God in english term in not specific for an entity as it can describe to norse gods, greece gods or the pagan gods While Allah is specific term for god in abrahamic religion either you called it eloha or allah but the root word is still the same

[@aa-zz6328]

@@muhammadaiman6713 do you even speak Arabic? Allah literally translates to the god, it could also refer to Phoenician, Babylonian or Greek gods, like it does in English. And focus on that it's plural. You are right, Allah is the name of Abrahamic religions god in Arabic, like Theos in Greek or God in English is. You are using a dumb argument. 😆😅🤣

Spanish woman: "They're invading Spain". Most Natives of America and Many Africans: "ummmmmmm..."

[@pengensehat6934]

😂😂😂😂 she is kidding right?!

[@TheMarusero]

We weren't invaded, we were part of Spain and became one nation over time

[@enzocompanbadillo5365]

@@TheMarusero entiendo tu punto. Pero en el comentario claramente se refiere a indígenas, o sea, nativos de América. Pero sí, ni México ni Colombia ni Perú ni ningún otro país hispano existía antes de la conquista.

[@ashenone3050]

E- World chill amigo latino no tengas envidia

[@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913]

I just want to say something important that didnt came up in the documentary: Before de Mosk, there was a cristian church and the moors build on top and didnt let cristians pray there. The moors were kickt out by the native spanish, only place in the world that could scape islam

[@rarelife-f7h]

Spain has a very interesting history compared to rest of Europe.

[@jeromefr6461]

Lol I hope you are kidding

[@user-fd9ph1jn1v]

Jerome FR why? Should it always be Europe?

[@jeromefr6461]

@@user-fd9ph1jn1v What? Spanish history is interesting but not as interesting as Russian, French, Polish and SPECIALLY Greek and Italian history.

[@user-fd9ph1jn1v]

Jerome FR but you heard of “people has different opinions” right sweet boy?

[@jeromefr6461]

@@user-fd9ph1jn1v | d o π't g ! v € a s h ¡ t t h o

[@novayu666]

when the arab buy a football club then its ok.

[@hamzashinwary4215]

it's all money, nothing to do with anything. Business goes beyond the boundaries of faith and opinion.

[@michsky46]

coz they want to, once Reconquista is fully over we expropriate them!

[@dsolis7532]

So Spaniards are mad because somebody is taking their temples and culture... But not with violence but with money * Mayan, Mexica, Incan scream in silence*

[@neyougogo9923]

that people are dead since 500 years ago

[@dsolis7532]

@@neyougogo9923 first is mostly a joke to highlight the irony of a colonial power feeling the influence of another culture but with the violence they unforced. Second, those groups of people are very alive. There are Mayan communities in Guatemala and Mexico that even speak the language, Mexica descendent people in Mexico and Incan descendent people in Peru today. Also, most Latin Americans are partly descendent of these groups.

[@LadialecticaLadialectica]

D Solis The Aztecs were a thousand times more barbaric than the Spanish conquerors. New ossuaries are discovered every day in Mexico with skeletons of thousands of children and adults slaughtered. The crops needed massive sacrifices from a neighboring tribe, the same was needed for the sun to continue rising the next day. LEAVE THE HYPOCRESIA! That idea of "the good savage" in which the pre-Hispanics lived in the earthly paradise, where honey fell through the walls and everyone lived in peace until the wicked conquerors arrived, only four sheep like you believe it. That idealization is part of the identity / nationalist construction of Mexico and other Latin countries. It is nothing more than a nationalist story. Putting them into rationality is already impossible.

[@demoscratos4577]

Que ironia, verdad.

[@THX-bz8bi]

@@LadialecticaLadialectica dude... It doset justify the violence in that period.

[@sopadurso]

Send the money to Portugal, surely we have moor monuments that can use a brush.

[@Zen-cv2eq]

It's money from the Wahabbi sect of Islam, not sure you wanna take money from them

[@YTChannel344]

@The Illumination Wasn't Portugal complicit in Native American genocide via the orders of Portugal's King Columbus set out and found Native inhabitants from which he found gold on them, turned them into slaves, did horrific crimes and abducted their people, raped their women, spread diseases and so on.

[@ryanfaruk86]

Zen 2019 there's nothing called a wahhabi sect in Islam. Read the book "The Wahhabi Myth" by Haneef James Oliver.

[@Zen-cv2eq]

@@ryanfaruk86 Biased religious bootlicking author, and an outdated book from 2004

[@christopherhyncik8851]

Nice pun

[@saminasiri9014]

During the Spanish Inquisition lots of Arabic books were burnt except few books on medicine survived.

[@MrMasterLoulou]

@EuropaNostra You're the reason of why people should wear condoms.

[@nawaafsadi6554]

@EuropaNostra atleast they read one unlike you a total ignorant

[@stiannobelisto573]

Luckily today we are blessed with western medicine

[@ezgi-el8yj]

@@stiannobelisto573 western medicine takes its roots from eastern medicine

[@classified0713]

George Nathanael Cordoba was a center for learning and knowledge where many psycians and philosophers studied. So NO you are wrong it wasn’t just “fiqh”

[@KILYAN.MBAPPE107]

800 Years was long time ....wow ..That's why Spanish has some Arabic names like Omar , Ozeh , Maira , Omaira bla bla bla

[@adriumbra627]

Spanish People with these names? Never, if someone have that name, is not Spanish. Totally wrong

[@industv1221]

​@@adriumbra627 The last names of the famous footballers Isco Alarcon and Thiago Alcantara are Arabic in origin. You surely must have heard about these two. Most Spanish last names that start with 'Al' or 'El' are Arabic in origin. I worked at a retail store in the U.S and had many Latin American customers called Omar and Medina.

[@bag6483]

@Peter D Morocco their language is Berber the real Arab is Arabian peninsula North Africa the levant got colonies by the Arabs and Iberian peninsula

[@malekaltayari3936]

@𖤐 Sebastian Barnabas🇹🇷 tunus'tan selamlar 🇹🇳🌹🇹🇷

[@jmcr1963]

@@industv1221 Even that were true, it does not make Spanish people Arabic by any means.

[@Amar90]

I would love to see the genetic test results of the Vox leader. I’m sure he’ll be shocked to find that he has Arab roots

[@150qwertyu]

If he has Arab roots, then that does not make him a Spaniard?

[@hammou1312]

mostly Berber!

[@NishchayBhuta-en8rl]

All of us have african roots. So what?

[@eDENjoetree]

So what? Therefore Spain needs to be over run with non-Spaniards?

[@1nopoint]

@@hammou1312 True. Even most North Africans like Moroccans have hardly any Arab DNA. Moroccans for example are on average between 70-80% North African, 10-15% Iberia(Spain), and 3-5% West African. If they have any Arab DNA it's very small, many Moroccans and Algerians who take DNA tests often have 0% Arab DNA. It's safe to say to find a Spaniard with any Arab DNA would be a tough find.

[@robmiller1964]

Interesting, I would love to visit Spain, all the way from New Zealand.

[@joshuddin897]

Give me your bank details. I'll provide you with cheap flights. Happy to help!!

[@user-xv6kd7jh3w]

In the Middle Ages Arab helped lead Spain to civilization

[@benjamintorres9211]

كل ويكند what happened after the middle ages

[@samuelL.mackin]

@SKANDERBEG And the Greeks learned it from the Egyptians

[@sultan-nc6fh]

@Samuel L. MackiN And the Egyptian learned that from Babylonian

[@samuelL.mackin]

@@sultan-nc6fh indeed & before that the ancient sumarians...people of color

[@banpowel9784]

@@samuelL.mackin white people used to be people of colour and that explains that

[@HXNZ99]

The hypocrisy of Spain. Do you people actually know how much money they make of the Mulslim attractions? The Minaret, the numerous palaces, the Catehdral-Mosque, all their major attractions are Moors related. Hypocrites.

[@dwaynemellnickohara2167]

clearly not enough to keep them that way :) got any numbers to prove your claims?

[@HXNZ99]

@@dwaynemellnickohara2167 have a check yourself pal, figures are all online 👍🏻

[@jamesretreat]

Why should Arab states pay for the restoration? Europe is too poor to pay themselves?

[@Mohammedtm96]

لا غالب الا الله

[@rubenduffy2795]

Imagine the media reporting on Hagia sophia and how that was forced into a mosque, Highly doubt it

[@hamburger7627]

It’s a museum now, but yeah i got it.

[@ferdy7819]

@@hamburger7627 FYI, that Turkish government told they decided to change it back into a mosque

[@akifnobody318]

They should both be museums, no need to argue on some historical monument, we have 1000000000 mosques and churches worldwide

[@stiannobelisto573]

Unfortunately nobody cares, only thing people care about is destroying monuments, only in the West for some reason

[@cxarhomell5867]

@Emperor Louis The Retard No.

[@ryanenglish8047]

Why is colonialism bad only when Europeans do it and not others?

[@moncef9778]

Because west kill nativ peaple

[@TheUnique69able]

Europeans by far colonised more people than any other region. That's why people hate European colonilization

[@aym.s5827]

Because colonialism is only done by europeans. If it wasnt for us liberating andalus and bringing civilisation to it Spain would think that showering 2 times in a lifetime is normal

[@prophetoftheilliterate4697]

Cause Europe is the hombre in charge and everybody likes to hate on the man

[@haidarahmad1465]

@@aym.s5827 🤣

[@mahmud8982]

When the Caliph Umar conquered Jerusalem, he didn't pray in the church of Holy Sepulchre in fear that others may turn it into a mosque. It was not right to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque after the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed the Second and the recent incident is also regretful. And turning mosques into churches is not right similarly. Victors always liked to rub their victory on the face of their opponent by forced conversion, rape, etc. But those were medieval times. I hope everyone can acknowledge their mistakes and be civil.

[@peridaplatypus]

@spaks ofc, to get that sweet jizya money

[@toplobster740]

@spaks But was as often practiced in it as it was in other religions

[@mohammadrezasheikmanoga6792]

I agree on one thing Arab money is detrimental!

[@Nif.900]

العالم كله يريد المال العربي

[@sizex1966]

No mention of the Moors, interesting

[@MrMisanthrope_]

4:03 but I understand what you are saying. The moors are Africans. They don't like Africans

[@simplythebest286]

the maures ( moors) were the inhabitants of modern day kingdom of morocco ( the old kingdom of mauretania) !!

[@MrMisanthrope_]

@@simplythebest286 how were they displaced?

[@psychopassisamasterpiece1997]

@@MrMisanthrope_ before they kicked out the arabs from the northwest africa during the berber revolt in 739, the arab empire of umayad sent a vessal army of the moors aka berber morocans to invade spain with the help of ceuta governor, then a civil war between the arabs and berber happened when talks about which got to rule what started which led to the berber revolt. hence why moors in spain were mainly berber, only an elite minority were arabs!

[@lets_wrapitup]

psycho pass is a masterpiece but Andalusia is Arab

[@BGdroopy]

Islam is beautiful. I’m saying this as a Catholic. 🕌🖤⛪️

[@AdamSahr-cj4kf]

You may be a catholic but you are certainly saying this a rational human being !!!

[@BGdroopy]

Adam Sahr together we can accomplish more

[@AdamSahr-cj4kf]

@@BGdroopy Education is key...

[@alvinjr.5524]

Islam in a mixed culture is even more beautiful like malay Turkish or Chinese just show how flexible Islam is compared to what the media portrays it to be

[@israelmorris1789]

I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND COMPLETELY WITH YOU!. ISLAM IS INDEED STUNNING, AND IMPRESSIVE, TO AN IMPARTIAL VIEWER.

[@techwire4828]

They conquered spain and then got kicked out. Why can he be proud of that but the English are deemed as racist for their empire.

[@saimalishahid1406]

Because they were far more than mere exploiters for the sake of the main land by the time they settled.

[@techwire4828]

@@saimalishahid1406 I could say the same thing for the British.

[@juanguzman9031]

I think the whole genocide and slavery thing has a bad ring to it, don't you think?

[@juanguzman9031]

@Bidu Bidu yes but the colonist's didn't stop with just that they continued to kill the indigenous people for decades

[@techwire4828]

@Bidu Bidu The arabs enslaved the Turks and the Turks enslaved the Eastern Europeans for centuries and oppressed the Arabs which in turn caused the Arabs to revolt against them. I don't see how Turkish or Arab colonialism was better than English colonialism.

[@KillShot-ln6mn]

Do one on the Buddhist statues & history of Afghanistan before Islam.

[@Pink-Floyd2000]

No Buddhists were driven out, executed or forcefully converted like Spanish Inquisition.

[@callspreadzero854]

I wonder if they are upset with the Hagia Sophia being turn into a Mosque?

[@user-gi4qk7qm3t]

If you hate your past so much, why don't you destroy it? Yes, you might lose a lot of money (tourism), but you stood up for your values, right? Or is it all about money for you?

[@f1aziz]

@Great Khan Europeans looted their colonies, took a ton of wealth from those colonies back to Europe, which turned those colonies poor. Arabs settled down in Andalus, they made Andalus their home, there was no wealth extraction and transportation back to the Arab world. There's a huge difference.

[@themechanictangerine4337]

99.9% of monuments in Southern Spain are not Moorish, by far the most common art there is Baroque. The athedral of Seville is the largest gothic church in the world, aside from the Alhambra, the Mosque of Cordoba and some Moorish fortresses the overwhelming mayority.architecture of Southern Spain follow the same styles of Western Europe.

[@adityabanerjee7145]

@@f1aziz They thought they will have control forever - that changed

[@f1aziz]

@@adityabanerjee7145 How did you know what they thought?

[@Graceamazimg]

Fear =ignorance and ignorance is demise

[@dontletherspeak7575]

fear does not equal ignorance.

[@Football-ss2zt8ws6d]

@@dontletherspeak7575 fear without knowledge and reflection is equal to ignorance leading to demise ..

[@user-fz6ko2bt9g]

Fear + ignorance = hate

[@TheJosep70]

@@dontletherspeak7575 It does. If you fear something, you'll never get to fully know it because you'll try to avoid it.

[@sabrinatscha2554]

Princess Grace: so my fear of touching a hot stove is unfounded? Who would have guessed.

[@zx7siovia213]

The vox dude looks like an emir from the year 1000 AD hahaha

[@MrRustyDust]

mount and blade xD

[@mili6580]

Romans described iberians as swarthy peoples, even basques who are pure iberians look swarthy. It's funny that you are the ones who think you must look like a blonde haired blue eyed scandinavian to look european considering that Ancient Greeks, Romans and Iberians themselves were swarthy.

[@internettrihard2955]

@@mili6580 they also described them as a people that if unable to pick a fight outside of their country, they would find one amongst themselves....oh btw they basque are anything but swarthy...

[@mili6580]

@@internettrihard2955 I live in Navarra, go and try to start a racist chimpout in other side

[@internettrihard2955]

@@mili6580 hahah don’t blow your self up champ. Save it for the Catalans lmfao 1987

[@thnktank1]

When you refuse to accept your history or come to terms with your ancestry.😆

[@juanguzman9031]

Yeah so much history was gained from the goths right?

[@neyougogo9923]

@Bidu Bidu hahahaha in your dreams

[@benjamintorres9211]

Bidu Bidu im sure the arabs in north africa and arabia loved the turkish enrichment

[@cornsyrup9947]

@Oochali Channel Not completely true, most had to pay a jizya, or converted peacefully.

[@jmcr1963]

throw away Read genetic studies and return back to school. Spain is none of your business

[@amit4Bihar]

Inca, Mayans and other native Americans are asking

[@MarkHayes-ue7hs]

Asking what?

[@copperdog]

What? I'm Latin American. Spain doesn't own us anything. Actually i like Spain a lot. Beautiful country.

[@MarkHayes-ue7hs]

@@copperdog 🤔😅😂🤣

[@arthasmenethil8796]

@@MarkHayes-ue7hs whats your problem? Latin América and spain are like brothers. We speak de same language

[@MarkHayes-ue7hs]

@@arthasmenethil8796 Latin America and Spain are like brothers? Last time I was in Spain I was with a Puerto Rican friend who I was serving with While talking to women in Spanish those women never even heard of Puerto Rico. Now things may have changed slightly but you are exaggerating. Brothers? Really? Since when? Oh and as for speaking the same language that is also an exaggeration because the dialects are different. The same for Mexican Spanish and any other non Castilian Spanish spoken in the Americas.

[@AmandeepSingh-eo8it]

Great job

[@juanangm95]

Most of the people saying that "the people in the video look like Arabs lololol" have never seen an Arab in their life apparently. But that's besides the point. Some right wing Germans systematically reject Mediterranean Europeans and Slavs even though some native Germans look Mediterranean or Slavic, but that is not what makes their arguments nonsensical.

[@ffi1001]

How can you see we haven’t seen an Arab the first guy they interviewed in the video is an Arab 🤯

[@prophetoftheilliterate4697]

Probably a bunch of anglophones

[@marioformosa4259]

@@prophetoftheilliterate4697 To me Germany is now a German/Turkish/Syrian country. And in a political sense it is an American vassal state.

[@mohammedraheef1415]

@@prophetoftheilliterate4697 you're such a schizophrenic

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

europe and all the way to pakistan are the same "white". they all look exactly the same.

[@kaloarepo288]

Islamic groups a few years ago asked for prayer access to Cordova's famous cathedral saying it was once a great mosque -archbishop promptly and devastatingly responded -but before that it was a great catholic church forcibly converted into a mosque! The truth is that the building,under the Visigoths was the great church of St Vincent.Even the famed horseshoe arches are ultimately of Visigothic and Roman origin.

[@adememresadkoglu1532]

but they say Hagia Sophia cant be a mosque. hypocrites.

[@a.demifemiflapo5795]

It's been a museum since the 1930's

[@bootstrap52]

The spanish??

[@Squirrellium]

Exactly.

[@reshanbiran6873]

@@a.demifemiflapo5795 nothing impossible there's a mosque called mosque sukarno in Russia and it was used as Armory so why can't a museum used again as mosque

[@alejandrosotomartin9720]

Apart this is our heritage and those of our ancestors on our ancestral Peninsula. Yours is not in Anatolia but in Altai. Search for your ancestral civilisation in Altai Montains. Wait there is nothing out there.

[@amjadatrash6223]

The Moors left great legacy in Iberian peninsula, the traces of which can still be seen in whole of Europe till our present day.

[@massinissaziriamazigh8122]

al hamdu li allah

[@amjadatrash6223]

@Dio Rex You are such an ignorant!!! You cannot deny the valuable culture & science they brought to Europe, which were the triggers of European Renaissance 😉

[@RedVelvetBlackleather]

Amjad Atrash Name 1 😏

[@mohammedelkrim3786]

@@stiannobelisto573 such evil

[@stiannobelisto573]

@@mohammedelkrim3786 i know, thanks for agreeing

[@vsingh3493]

Assuming that Andalucia was a dump before the reign of moors is plain BS.

[@leavesinautumn5959]

True, but then again so is refusing to accept the obvious contributions made by them during their time in Spain.

[@ServingChrist]

@@leavesinautumn5959 Your position hasn't been lacking in academic study in recent times. In fact, those contributions have been overstated far too often. New research shows that pre-Islamic Spain was far from the Dark Ages and the Berbers were very impressed with what they found in Spain in terms of civilization. Much of the Islamic advances they are given credit for were built on the back of this infrastructure and contrary to the idea that Islam brought Greek and Roman knowledge back to the West, it had actually been safeguarded all along by the Byzantines. They merely stole it when they attacked the Byzantine empire and added some improvements to it.

[@leavesinautumn5959]

@@ServingChrist "stole" is hardly the word I'd use. Why must we pretend that it's a choice between 2 absolutes? The history of human societies, several thousand years long says otherwise. The contributions of Islamic civilization in Spain are not generally "overstated" although it might sometimes be convenient to think so for a number reasons. That however is not to say that the preexisting Spainish civilization didn't make any contributions to Islamic civilization in turn. That's just how any civilization works, we build on each others knowledge and achievements. No single civilization can claim to have risen without building on knowledge from other civilizations. "Greek and Roman" knowledge wasn't strictly speaking knowledge exclusive to either, it was knowledge that they gathered and not exclusively from either "Greek or Roman sources" .. Naturally, the same applies in equal measure to the Islamic civilizations.

[@ohmandamp]

P C Hardly. The Brits were merely the first to reach thar stage, and on the grand chessboard of history, being the first to an advancement renders great advantages. Without the Brits, someone else would have been the first. These sort of advancements were going to happen, and no one person or culturr or civilization is necessary for such progress. All culture determines is who in particular, the British, the Chinese, the Indians etc., will be the first to make the advancement.

[@ohmandamp]

P C Ever heard of independent origination? How Leibniz and Newton both independently developed calculus? Your preaching the great man theory of history, which is nonsense. Look deep into any great figure or civilization and you will find plenty of others who were right behind them in developing such advances but simply lost the race of being the first and thus lost their spot of fame in history.

[@brinkydebink1257]

Spain has to be greatfull When the rest of europe was dying of plageu and starvation they had public baths librarys infrastructure streetlights universities jobs wealth a strong navy and army hospitals taxes where payed by the rich and hand out to the poor. If al andalus has still been existing today with its leaders it would have been the most powerfull and most influenceal country in the world by far. In Paris they where living in mud and called al andalus the pearl.

[@brinkydebink1257]

@@theresecoco1887 al andalus was the most sofisticated part of the moorish empire and the world ! The whole world was in slavery and you as a white girl who's grandfathers burned nigros Alive in the 20th Century is saying this. 🤣

[@kp5602]

@@theresecoco1887 They did not have Slavery. They did have Slavery late on during the rule of the spanish though.

[@kw6570]

@@theresecoco1887 Nice to see you again little islamophobe haha. As a white person, please never bring up slavery. That is not an argument you will win

[@brinkydebink1257]

@Ger Many so was morocco but the roman empire and the persian empire collapsed the 2 most powerfull empires of the time because of the arab qonquest and after that the moorish empire came to power in the medetereanen.

[@kw6570]

Therese & Coco 😭😂😂😂 the cacusity. Articulate economies like in Austria are dependent on countries that produce raw minerals to keep its industry alive. This capitalist system switched the chains with dictators. You still enslave Africa and the whole 3rd world but with new guidelines that pretend civility and humanity. Try again 😭😂

[@immanuellth6071]

Bring back Al-andalus

[@mili6580]

Bring back the Golden Horde and Ottoman Empires too ;)

[@immanuellth6071]

@@Oxirey yeah that too

[@jmcr1963]

Spain belongs to Spanish people, you fool.

[@amongussus9779]

@@jmcr1963 Those Spaniards are not Native they come from Germania

[@ardytimes]

Bring back all the empires let’s repeat history lol

[@jatorresh]

1:00 subtitles are wrong, he says radical islam,and other wrong things

[@jap882]

Thank you arab ♥️👌

[@user-nh5np9on9d]

❤❤

[@sarah-tb6nj]

@@cccmeee arab only othres is mawali for arabs

[@nawaf761]

@@sarah-tb6nj روح امشي بلا حكي فاضي

[@Abuhussein2000]

You welcome ♥️

[@scorpiovenator_4736]

this is one of the places islam worked out

[@suqyanrahmat7829]

are those pillars still original?🤔

[@Amir.Farooqps]

Yes

[@themechanictangerine4337]

There is a small very old mosque(now a church) in Toledo that has the original Visigothic pillars.

[@suqyanrahmat7829]

thank you @@themechanictangerine4337 🙂🙏🏻

[@reo8372]

It kinda funny when you build a building with a lots of gold inside it and not allowed to stepped inside it.

[@furtivedolus2504]

With gold you stole on land you were occupying*

[@thecrimespiller9625]

Oh like the aiasophia

[@karrole88]

@@furtivedolus2504 there was no gold mine in Spain they left behind which means they brought those gold from their original homeland or bought with the money they made from their successful trade they established there anyway they left Spain 1000x better than they found it.

[@furtivedolus2504]

@@karrole88 Yes, it was 1000x better when they left it, I agree.

[@ismailmounsif1109]

@@furtivedolus2504 haha the Iberians invited us how is that invading fool?

[@javierlav]

So the Vox Party represents 11% of votes but they only interview two elderly ladies representing the people of Córdoba. This does not seem very balanced

[@Jesus-77]

We have a lot of faults in our country but I think one of the best side of us is our tolerance with other cultures, more than some countries I think and our humanity.

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

Tell me the 1st Commandment and which book the 10 Commandments originated from?

[@AC-mp7cx]

spain isnt that tolerant

[@themechanictangerine4337]

@@AC-mp7cx Spain is too tolerant.

[@hannahpocock4152]

@@lighttheoryllc4337 torah

[@jmelz155]

Spain started the slave trade…….

[@beast-master2094]

Those women are out of there mind. Islam is what made Spain 🇪🇸 great for 800 years.

[@beast-master2094]

@elskaesca you must be living in dream land.

[@elenasanchez7640]

Te olvidas del Imperio Español querido ya no había musulmanes cuando España era el estado más poderoso de la tierra

[@lilbich6576]

For some it’s a dark past because you know what happened when they conquered Spain if you don’t convert, that could be the reason why there’re opposing people on this because for them it’s a sensitive matter.

[@almaaili89]

If you search more you will find Spain also has conquered many nations ..

[@jmcr1963]

@@almaaili89 That's the past. Now we don't want any conquerors, do we?

[@hellounhappy.9469]

Do u even know the history???? dark past? which historian told you that give me the reference. Stop spreading nonsense based on your religious view

[@maikilreategui1271]

​@hellounhappy.9469 yeaa those Arabs never belonged their in the first place. And after 800 years the natives had enough and reconquered it again.

[@nermindemirovic6767]

Vi ste citavu latinsku ameriku pobili,oplajckali i pokrstili unistili sva plemena u latinskoj americi nemojte nam vi spanci govoriti o moralu

[@byronlorenzo1573]

So glad Allah guided me to this Beautiful Religion ☺

[@arashahad8733]

Welcome my brother to Islam. The religion of All prophets, including Jesus. Are you Spanish?

[@sageasaness]

Hahaha Islam fooled you. Nothing is Good in Islam.

[@omarkharrbache8584]

@@sageasaness hahaha hahaha hahaha trinity is a xfiles tv you have nothing to do with islam mind your business

[@gamble278]

@@sageasaness peace, understanding, discipline and fear of Allah. Thats what I've learned

[@SuperMagix7]

I was glad too to join islam I left years ago So glad jesus accepted me

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

Im spanish and im proud of all our past but honestly what i dont like of islam is the same from christianity i dont want any of those religions forced down my troath i want to learn about the varied history.

[@yonidellarocha9714]

@Arbyte .you keep talking about what the theory is supposed to say, but about the practice, europeans and indians still know what a dhimmi is and which one of our ancestors were the first and last ones to abide by that. Obfuscation is the name of your comment, documents and actual history is the name of mine.

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

Have you heard of the inquisition?

[@yonidellarocha9714]

@@Neilos-sd6ti was that a reply to me or to Arbyte?

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

@@yonidellarocha9714 arbyte

[@j.mtherandomguy8701]

@Arbyte Both religions endorse the idea of "forcing the religion down ones throat". Just read the Old Testament and the Surat Al-Tawbah. The OP is not wrong when he said that these religions re being forced down the throats of those that are born into it or living under its yoke.

[@syedabdulazizchishty4002]

These far rightists must be informed that the Jesus was an Afro-Arab.

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

Hagia sophia=should stay as a museum Cathedral of cordoba=should become a museum

[@soto93soto38]

Right now Erdogan is trying to turn Hagia sophia into a mosque.

[@temptemp4174]

@@soto93soto38 if Spain made Cordoba a museum then he wouldn't have a reason to make it a mosque. That's the point

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

We should care but for the sake of preservation of history.

[@pseudochadio]

@Niko Bellic it's the other way around, papist.

[@rursus8354]

Paranoid insane far right. What use are they? Is there any?

[@Curiouzzz750]

Paranoid ?

[@seriousabin4565]

Archaeological sites should be renovated and brought back for all to see.Well that is what i would have said until yesterday since Turkey just converted Hagia sophia into a mosque.That just killed my attitude towards archaelogical sites.Perhaps actions such as these could lead to a precedent of similiar incidents and now i cannot even oppose them.

[@dreezerlyrics410]

Because Spainsh kings did it first in spainish reqoncuista

[@heraclito3114]

@@dreezerlyrics410 the mosque was originally a church: the Visigoth Basilica of Saint Vicent.

[@samaale7381]

If they don't like their past Moors history they should destroy all the buildings, architecture, roads, parks that resemble Moors plus change names of cities that have Arab names.

[@Fati.Ferreiro]

We like our past we don't like the inmigrants.

[@Comptesupprimeeee987]

@@Fati.Ferreiro but the thing is that you don’t have to worry about immigrants because we are talking about history not immigrants

[@Comptesupprimeeee987]

@@Fati.Ferreiro geeezz

[@JC_inc]

This is what I don’t get: they are Europeans on every continent in the world. So why are they always comparing others in Europe?

[@lodovicoconrado3297]

In this video: A rich elder woman complaining that "money is everything"

[@gf3011]

Why do you think she's rich?

[@voidremoved]

King Jesus can't be stopped.

[@montaser9985]

Surprisingly the old buildings in the video have a writing on it which says: لا غالب إلا الله "There is no victor but Allah"

[@user-oo6yc1zg5u]

ربك الصنم يسوع هلك

[@Omer1996E.C]

@Peter D cuz allah never had dogs in the first place 😂

[@user-zf2cq2bt8x]

@Peter D so how come they kicked crusader dogs out of middle east?

[@maenallahalih8956]

@Peter D Middle East got bombs too you know :/

[@artair70]

Need a new Austrian painter for this

[@jemma_19988]

End of the day just like british and mughals in india they were invadrs and inevitably had to leave

[@hamzaabbasi9577]

So world should stop discussing Hagia Sophia Mosque status

[@fuzailrehman5396]

True

[@adrianalainez8499]

No because it was a church first just like the Córdoba Mosque was a church first.

[@Abu_hussein_2000]

لا غالب إلا الله ☝️☝️

[@julioprego1956]

The moors had been in the Iberica peninsula for 700 years, but only had control of the half of the peninsula for 250 years and most of them had been a disaster. Thanks God for the reconquest.

[@Holybatman3603]

The Moors held control in the Iberian peninsula for over 500 years, what are you talking about?

[@karthikeyanm.v8381]

Don't forget these same people destroyed Buddhist statues in Afghanistan

[@hamzashinwary4215]

Good, only the people of the book get respect. Keep seething Pagan.

[@siddhantasinghsomvansheey]

@@hamzashinwary4215 people of the book are illiterates who fell for war lords and stopped thinking.

[@user-rg2yw3wk1g]

✝VIVA ESPAÑA✝

[@HelloCurve111]

The VOX party leader looks arabic. Is he??

[@soukai]

he has Iranian money on his pocket for sure

[@sergioalonso3796]

He is from the north of Spain,the basque country

[@spaliverpool71]

@@sergioalonso3796 And Galicia

[@Alan-wh6gh]

@@soukai thats the left party actually PSOE

[@ALEX-fq7hh]

Looks like arab because of his beard

[@SigandGibbs]

This is so surreal. It's like saying "people should be grateful for the legacy of British brutal colonizing of foreign nations!"

[@paulfletcher2029]

Big powers eat little powers including yours Sigand. That is reality.

[@bernardmcavoy1864]

I thought that they were grateful.

[@lev_rzld_]

Tell it to Hong Kong, proud of their British legacy than be part of how it should be, China

[@ismailmounsif1109]

Haha the people of Iberia invited us to their land and didn’t mind for us to take over why? Because of the oppressive king they had learn history before speaking fool

[@themechanictangerine4337]

@@ismailmounsif1109 yeah they had a referendum

[@mcc5901]

It must not be forgotten that it was radical Islamists, the Berber tribes of Almoravids and Almohads, who were recently converted to the faith, that actually ended the Caliphate. They were horrified at the liberal and cosmopolitan nature of the Caliphate. They burnt down the palace of Medina Azahara and defaced all the statues. The Caliphate then fractured into the Taifas.

[@travispepe553]

Damn and I though the USA could be pretty racist

[@Mz_95]

Good job at re-enforcing the idiotic idea that arabs=Muslims, folks went from talking about mosques then says many worry of all the money from Arab billionaires 🤦‍♂️

[@laudatepueridominum1982]

Dios mío puede ser esta noticia más amarillista?

[@HashimJavedsofakinggood]

Can't we all just get along?

[@Berto4690]

People who are not from Spain, ignore that man called Abascal, northerners live obsessed with their history and race and many despise us for our Arab past, n Andalusians are on the fringes of the identity conflicts of the capital, we are proud of our past, and more so the people of Cordoba in this case, the mosque-cathedral of Cordoba is The symbol of the union between the two cultures that gave rise to our nation. And yes, I said nation, because Andalusia is, although it is not an independent country, it is a cultural nation.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

Should the kings of Spain be expelled because they are from Germany, or should the Goths be expelled because they are from Russia?

[@Berto4690]

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j Our kings are Bourbons, from France

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

@@Berto4690 Not from the Goths, according to the Arab historians, and these are immigrants from Russia

[@jojolafrite9265]

Il y a des sacré expert de l'Espagne, des ABRUTIS qui inventant des histoire de 💩sur 🇪🇦 CHRÉTIENNE DEPUIS LES ROMAINS

[@ulisesfonseca7937]

they conquered Mexico, and they were conquered

[@enzocompanbadillo5365]

Mexico did not even exist 500 years ago.

[@psychopassisamasterpiece1997]

@@enzocompanbadillo5365 i think he's referring to the aztec empire

[@alanjacker1374]

@@weetbix4497 at some point in history yes, but people tend to forget that theyre also conquerers

[@enzocompanbadillo5365]

@@psychopassisamasterpiece1997 It is still anachronistic. The Aztec empire did not encompass the totality of modern day Mexico either. Not all Mexicans descend from the Aztecs, you know.

[@rohanr.9714]

other way around

[@abloodorange5233]

Allow them to keep the mosque... it’s theirs now. Like how the haghia Sofia is turkeys.

[@dwaynemellnickohara2167]

yeah...

[@msa11387]

Fantastic documentary!

[@GUNUFofficial]

Why does the man look like charles manson

[@Rafick203]

It was also Roman! They should also be proud!

[@mr.tamimi8854]

الله اكبر

[@mohamedibrahim2012]

@@arolemaprarath6615 Allah akbar والله الحمد

[@destroyerofmurtads7621]

@@arolemaprarath6615 you sure love your colonial masters , I see you everywhere bashing islam , you are filipino right ? Go worship your spainard masters

[@user-oo6yc1zg5u]

الله أكبر

[@zackab6609]

الله اكبر

[@user-cx8jf9hr4e]

الله أكبر ☪️☝️

[@mutualisme299]

Where did all the blackamoors go? Bana Adnan and Musta Ribah i do not consider a blackamoor.

[@hasanhuseyinersin7856]

For Deutsche Welle anything related to Islam is source of contraversy…

[@abelnicolae]

The way media can twist facts, omg...

[@crobeastness]

What do they twist?

[@mohammedraheef1415]

what exactly is being twitsted in this video?

[@amelhl6235]

0:10 he is algerian 🇩🇿

[@sopadomacaco8470]

only foreigns like this things

[@massinissaziriamazigh8122]

@@sopadomacaco8470 Has anyone talked to you?

[@mohcinerobla3446]

Morocco 🇲🇦

[@neyouxddd2371]

@@massinissaziriamazigh8122 has anyone talked to you?

[@Skrill10]

@@neyouxddd2371 who's talking to you

[@ktelite]

Why not just make it a museum or exhibition places. Just an opinion

[@rideallday4441]

Compare and contrast the Moor and Visigoth invasions of Spain. The Visogoths melded with the Iberians, while the Moors never did. That’s why they were kicked out.

[@SciK.]

That’s because Visigoth’s followed Christianity, the common ground here was Christianity.

[@ColonelFluffles]

Even though the majority of the Moors in Andalus were indigenous? Your argument is false.

[@rideallday4441]

@@ColonelFluffles The Moors are from present day Morocco, so please tell us how they were indigenous.

[@princehmg]

That guy from Vox party looks Arab himself !!!

[@ASTUALPHA]

Impossible he is from Basque Country

[@Personanormalycorriente]

He does, but he is from the Basque region

[@weanuhaske]

May better to ask from non Arab nations like malaysia brunei Indonesia Turkey.. arabs nation doesn't care

[@weanuhaske]

@MsSunhappy of course..don't you know..the most advance country in OIC nations..passport process less than 1 hour..the only country in the world. Top 10 most powerful passport in the world.

[@user-rm7fl2kk9h]

All of these countries that you mentioned have nothing to do with Andalusia. Stay away, O Asian

[@Snowflake1269]

The moment the government finds a way to separate and use religion and culture as a way to divide and fight then it is government who’s likely up to something

[@sachinvenugopal6926]

Well by seeing the comment section I think godless USSR and China are far better in some thing

[@sachinvenugopal6926]

@maso0140 well it was around 70 years ago .. and not now

[@sunnycactus8076]

It was not a peaceful time in Spanish history, this video avoids saying it was a wartime period.

[@yusafimran8951]

Corona virus has shown us, anyone is vulnerable, humanity first..... !!!

[@michsky46]

@Irfan Khan yeah in genocides! nothing from god mate!

[@nacho3741]

Don't confused the Sufi Islam (Al-andalus) with the actual Sunni Islam. They are both very different.

[@abdullahrakin4296]

Would u mind elaborating.?

[@KevinLopez-pu7ll]

Saddest part is they are dumping many african immigrants there.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

Immigrant Goths must be expelled