The revival of the old Muslim quarter of Granada

(5 Nov 2009) SHOT LIST:
AP Television
Alhmabra Palace, Granada, June 4, 2009
1. Pan Alhambra palace
2. Mid Alhambra
3. Mid archway
4. Close Arabic writing on wall
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Spain, Granada, October 1st, 2009
5. Wide of the Alhambra, pan to city of Granada
6. Various of Granada in evening light
7. Various of Caldereria Nueva ( Arabic district)
8. Set up Said Elkhlouf in his shop
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Said Elkhlouf, Shop owner, originally from Tetouan, Morocco:
"The street was nothing before the 1980s. There were just a few insignificant things here and not many people. Then everything changed. Moroccans arrived, businesses opened and the street is now really good. We get lots of tourists from around the world, from every country and of every colour. This place is very important now."
10. Close up leather bag
11. Mid shot shop in Caldereria Nueva selling leather bags
8. Mid shot people walking through Caldereria Nueva
9. Various of building restoration and for sale signs
10. Close up sign of mosque
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Hedi Benattia, Historian, originally from Tunisia:
"They moved to this mosque and it was then rented. So the area started to be a sort of Muslim neighbourhood, mainly Spanish. So the first shop it was a tea shop and a bakery, a little bakery."
10. Various of Mezquita Mayor De Granada
11. Various of Caldereria Nueva
12. Close of Teteria Meknes Rahma
13. Set up for Rupal Lad
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupal Lad, Tourist:
"I like the Arabic culture, and the colours, and I think it's the closest thing you can get to Morocco, well in Spain, because I have never been to Morocco so I have come back many times, and I love the shopping."
15. Various of shops in Caldereria Nueva
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Melanie Saldanha, Tourist:
"We've made a couple of friends who work in one of the shops here and they were kind enough to ask us to join them for a drink yesterday and it was just very nice, relaxed. We felt completely in good hands. It was very, very nice and we've come back to say hello to them today and we were hoping for a bit of a discount as well."
17. Close up of sign reading Teteria Dar Ziryab
18. Various of street
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Hedi Benattia, Historian originally from Tunisia:
"The people visit Alhambra OK. So they travel through time, they go back four centuries and then of course when they leave the Alhambra with its decorations. So after that visiting this street they feel themselves like living the Alhambra. With the decorations and the tea shops, and the tea and the music it gives them an atmosphere which is which is continuation of the Alhambra, you can say."
20. Various of Alhambra
LEAD IN:
The Alhambra, the last stronghold of Islam in Spain, is the most visited attraction in the country.
Lately there has been a sort of second wave of Islam in Granada.
The formerly neglected old part of the city is being redeveloped and it's generating business.
STORYLINE:
The Alhambra is a symbol of southern Spain's Islamic heritage.
These days, modern Muslim Spain can be found in the city of Granada, in a district called the Caldereria Nueva.
The street is full of characteristic shops that make it look just like a north African souq (souk).
But the Caldereria Nueva wasn't always so alive and bustling.
Shop owner Said Elkhlouf explains that it was virtually deserted until north Africans came and injected life into the street in the 1980s.
The regeneration of the district helped boost the housing market and many historic properties are being restored.
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[@vattakupatal8490]

Spain belongs to the spanish people and for 800 years the muslims there were spanish.That do not differentiate who and who were spanish.If you think spanish means christians,then you are from a different planet.

[@kingpuppo5880]

Si no sabes comunicarte en inglés entonces habla en español lo que acabas de escribir no tiene sentido

[@vattakupatal8490]

@@kingpuppo5880 gracias,pero soy de Essex,Inglaterra.Lo que estoy diciendo es que los espanoles tambien pueden ser musulmanes.🌷🌷

[@jdlc903]

@@vattakupatal8490 he's disagreeing with you.in Spain Christian Catholic identity is very important. There patron Saint is litterally Saint James the Moor (muslim) slayer

[@sshah3324]

Why were they kicked out when they got weaker Spain killed and deport there own Spanish people just on the base on religion you can’t be Arab when you live in Spain for 1000 years

[@maestroguru96]

Every soul that was birth on the soil of iberian Peninsula in Spanish.

[@sulaimaanahmad]

i'm yoruba (nigerian) amazigh (berber) and spanish...so this is part of my heritage, alhamdullah! 📖 📚

[@jmcr1963]

It is not your country

[@sulaimaanahmad]

Jm Cr question...who are you to say what's my country or not??! 😕

[@jmcr1963]

I am Spanish and I know who is Spanish. Sorry if that disturbs you. Nigerians are not Spanish or have anything to do with Spanish people Nor Berbers are Spanish سـلـيـمـان أحـمـد

[@kingdraco3069]

@@mdsalahuddin1168 muhammad was not a prophet

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[@mohamedalhabsi6948]

لا غالب إلا الله

[@lovenature904]

Allah Akbar

[@marioformosa4259]

@@lovenature904 And...??

[@edgardanishh]

@@marioformosa4259 what are y doing here?

[@raiha98]

الحمدلله finally adhan in granada

[@atteindresiempredad]

0:20 ومابكم من نعمة فمن الله

[@hartrichard3768]

The old Granada will by its revive true Islamic teaching Sunnah and the Holy Quran.

[@hartrichard3768]

SIR Lord Henry mortimer It's the will of the Almighty that Islam would dominate Europe.

[@BUCKETHEADache]

@عدو للمسيح don't you have arabic name? Are you not muslim?

[@vahshehzadeh]

@@sirlordhenrymortimer6620 : we r coming again, u idiot

[@holdshiftt2run308]

@Atiqur Rahman Let hyim say what he wants. Why are you using the same type of terminology that he uses? His anger at that statement should be enough.

[@holdshiftt2run308]

@EuropaNostra We are already dropping ideological bombs on society. We do not need terrorism in the way the non-Muslim governments and the offshoot heretical groups terrorize the masses.

[@umairahmed7031]

Al-Andalus and whole Spain is beautiful! Assalamu Aleykum Brothers and Sisters from Mohammed Umair Ahmed From HYDERABAD Telangana State INDIA .

[@hansguenter6263]

Andalusia: The Islamic Conquest of Spain In 711 AD. Tarik Ibn Siyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar with 7,000 men. He and his successors conquered most of Spain and Portugal in 20 years, systematically settling Syrians, Palestinians, Persians, Yemenis, Iraqis, Egyptians and Hejasarabs in the individual districts in order to transform the Iberian Peninsula into an Islamic country. The Islamic Southern Army under Musa Ibn Nusair with its 18,000 Yemeni and Syrian fighters conquered from 713 AD. Southern France, occupied Narbonne in 720 and Nimes, Arles and Avignon in 721. It stormed up the Rhone Valley, conquered Lyon in 725 and in the same year Langres, Sens and Luxeuil in the Vosges west of Basel. The Islamic northern army under General Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiki destroyed Bordeaux in 731, captured Portiers in 732 and was decisively defeated by Charles Martell (714-741 AD) before Tour 732 by the Frankish army. From 752 to 759 the reconquest of southern France followed, which was completed in 795 by Charlemagne (768-814 AD).! This finally eliminated the “Islamic ghost” on the Iberian Peninsula! The last MiniBastion Granada occupied by Muslims was 1483 liberated;!

[@KokaniMountaineer]

Ma Sha Allah

[@jamaibrahim4251]

Ah ah I'm really sorry, we left our people and our city, but if Allah says: - We will be back. Insha Allah. From Somalia

[@arcani99]

It was from Granada, europe got her enlightened. Sciences, medicines, knowledge etc. Granada, the last islamic heritance on european soil. Europe should more grateful to hv granada under Islamic rule once. If its not ..Wallahualam

[@israelmorris1789]

RIGHT ON!.

[@lauragf.9206]

Dont forget that while islamic Spain was at his greatest, christians and jews were very close collaborating. By the way, telling that Europe should be grateful, is like also telling that the arab world of today should be also grateful because much of what they use today is because of non muslim ideology. So try to unite people instead of separating them because of religion

[@marioformosa4259]

@Lighter Fluid15 Black History Month!!!??? I am sure that the Chinese and Indians would feel terribly insulted to be offered Affirmative Actions.

[@marioformosa4259]

@@lauragf.9206 No they weren't collaborating. Where did you get that? I am aware that some English woman made a TV series about Spain under Moorish rule which was funded by Arab oil money.

[@jdlc903]

No.not with that tone we won't.

[@lautmarmaraselatbolphorus]

Masya Allah

[@yakettiyak3353]

Heart touching memories of the glorious past.

[@jmcr1963]

Yaketti Yak Certainly not your past. It's not your country.

[@Tricoma81]

Hell and terror past 💀💀💀💀💀

[@darkartist2846]

@@Tricoma81 you must be referring to king philip and the dirty smelling queen isabella and finally the horrible terror christian inquisition

[@Tricoma81]

@@darkartist2846 Almanzor's GENOCIDE... ☪️☪️💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@marioformosa4259]

Equally heart touching seeing that they couldn't recreate this supposed paradise in Muslim lands

[@shelimhowladerNaturalblog7163]

beautiful mosque

[@nicolasrodriguez-cc3ez]

Los españoles cuidamos y conservamos nuestro patrimonio cultural ibero, romano, judio, islámico y cristiano.La Alhambra de Granada fue protegida del saqueo y destrucción del ejército francés en época de Napoleón. Lástima que la Biblioteca de Córdoba fue incendiada, destruida por los almohades con 40000libros únicos y comparada en su época con la Biblioteca de Alejandria. Saludos

[@mhaniff5369]

Allahu Akbar!

[@shakmdabdulmannan4787]

yeah Andalusia do not worry. We will again come and bring golden age of Islam of spain

[@Nicola.M7]

We sure will, and this time we will not make the same mistake, no enemy should live between us, no trust or sympathy for our enemies

[@jojolafrite9265]

​@@Nicola.M7Oui le chien aboie et la caravane passe. Si vous avez l'intention de venir, cette fois vous aurez même pas le temps de voir la Mer . Avec la puissance occidental, quelques coup de boutons et vous disparaisse bande D'arrièré. Cet pas demain que vous allez battre les CHRÉTIENS Voilà votre religion d'amour vous êtes prêts a tué les enfants de Dieu pour leurs volé leurs terres 🤮🤮🤮 Ont vous attend depuis que ont vous à foutu DEHORS bande salopards 🖕☪️🚽🧹🧹🧹🧹

[@nicolasrodriguez-cc3ez]

Vaya rollo nos ha metido el primero que sale hablando

[@NiteDriv3r]

Gud now rename it Alandulus!

[@bosniencommie1202]

Its cold andalusia alrey tho

[@tesifongranadino6885]

Isa Al-Massih (Jesus The Messiah ) the ONLY Prophet of God born of a Virgin. Ergo? What are the presuppositions?

[@tesifongranadino6885]

@@arolemaprarath6615 : Read the comment again. I'm Christian.

[@Real_Gigachaddi]

Jesus is a middle eastern dark skinned jew. Not a roman demigod son of god with pale white skin

[@tesifongranadino6885]

@@Real_Gigachaddi Jesus has overturned ethnos and topos; unlike Moses' Promised Land of the Hebrews and Muhammed's Mecca/Medina of the "Muslims - the best of all peoples". Jesus is the only Prophet and Messiah for me. My God and All.

[@tesifongranadino6885]

@عبد الخالق١٩٩٤ : !Perfection, Singularity, Divinity. Do the Math

[@tesifongranadino6885]

@عبد الخالق١٩٩٤ : , ?Ergo, Messiah or Mohammad = New Adam

[@terapialamsemulajadi]

the gloriousness of islamic in andalusia was parts of the spain histrory

[@hansguenter6263]

Be glad, that the islamic occupation ende in1482;! The remaining Islamic states persisted in their development, which was dictated by Islam! To this day, the Islamic states lack humanism, democracy, freedom of expression, enlightenment, secularization, equality between men and women, and a comprehensive reformation of the so-called "religion"!!

[@fisebilillah4406]

Allahu Akbar! We are back! And we will return Islam to Spain, insha Allah.

[@kakakhankhan8529]

May Allah open your hearth for those who seeks truth

[@JonathanDeLeon-em4px]

@@kakakhankhan8529 Jesus is the only prophet to declare, "I Am the Truth" for He is Allah, al-Haqq.

[@skittylitty7329]

Ameeennnnn

[@israelmorris1789]

YES, INSHALLAH!.

[@ahmadfalasteen6467]

In Sha Allah Ameen 🤲🏻

[@saudmir24]

They say spain belongs to christian tell me how Christan come in spain? Didn't roman empire conquered it

[@EricM-gm5wz]

Romans became Christian

[@hidden__truth5475]

if islam is not good they why the non muslims are accepting the islam and why the following the islam coz this is the religion of peace by which u can get peace this world and the world hereafter

[@horatiohuskisson5471]

Monish MBA people who willingly convert to Islam when they're over 18 is tiny drop in the ocean. Probably 99.9% of Muslims are only Muslims because they were born into it or forced into it.

[@nousername5673]

Horatio Huskisson No statistics. I know many converts and converts who had children.

[@JonathanDeLeon-em4px]

@@nousername5673 Google the article, "Seven out of Ten Converts leave Islam" by Imam Luqman Ahmad.

[@girdharsingh4287]

Do you know that there is growing number of ex-muslims as well? If Islam is so good, then why Muslim are leaving Islam?

[@sweetalison007]

Not words my man give me statistics. According to most sources the reason for Muslim growth is high birth rate and immigration and not dawah. Conversion happen but they play minor role in Muslim population growth The vast majority of Muslim are still Muslim by birth.

[@redzyrezali2587]

Revival in Granada & rise in Mexico. Alhamdulillah ❤

[@asomebody3448]

@@arolemaprarath6615 stfu degenerate larper

[@anasm4496]

@@arolemaprarath6615 Pakistan also has enough nukes

[@inner.conflicts]

@@arolemaprarath6615 pathetic u racist

[@muntakim.data.scientist]

@@arolemaprarath6615 Hide under the satan you antichrist satan.

[@rafiahmadraihansyah1128]

@@arolemaprarath6615 Stfu

[@3asem5000]

One day the water will return to its streams and the rights will be returned to the owners.

[@Tricoma81]

Christians are and Will be the owners, Spain was Christian much centuries before the islamic CÁNCER invaded US.

[@jmcr1963]

The owners are obviously the Spaniards.

[@nousername5673]

Rostro Pálido What about the pre-Christian Celtic and Greco-Roman religions? Lol.

[@Tricoma81]

@@nousername5673 and what about the Christian Roman culture in all North África? And what about jews in all North África? And what about the boudhist in Afganistán? And what about Copts Christians in Egypt? And what about Armenias un Turkey?..... What about?....

[@nousername5673]

Rostro Pálido So you understand. There are no true owners as predecessors have almost always existed. Btw, many of the Jews left Africa and there are still Coptic Christians there.

[@humzarockstar13]

Need of the hour is for Muslims to invest in education of the younger generations.

[@nikyatim2653]

Peace be upon on you

[@abdullahmuavia2521]

NOSTALGIC 😢😢😢😢

[@updatenews7644]

Akbar

[@updatenews7644]

Allahu

[@yandynestorperez7501]

If you want to know about hate, wars, massacres ... Just take a time a read the comments 😥

[@israelmorris1789]

CHRISTIANS KEEP YOUR HATE IN CHECK!.

[@Anna-cx4tg]

Or read the quran 🙂

[@marioformosa4259]

Spain belongs to the Spanish people. But in Granada there are Moroccan immigrants selling Moroccan leather goods and crafts and pastries exactly like they do in Tangier, Marakesh etc. And the video also shows us two Pakistani or Bangladeshi girls , daughters of immigrants to Britain ,trying to date Moroccan immigrants

[@obi-wankenobi9558]

But you have to say that the Pakistani girls look hot

[@abbad707]

Obi-Wan Kenobi ew

[@ColonelFluffles]

@@obi-wankenobi9558 I wouldn't pass

[@edanpaz3458]

They look like north africans and arabs

[@justus4341]

A lot of Spanish look a bit like Arabs.

[@hajro2273]

@@justus4341 because they are to some parts

[@NiteDriv3r]

Because Spaniards and Portuguese mixed with the Moors

[@sakuragihanamichi1042]

Lol, returned the Hagia Sophia first back to the Christians or atleast turn it back it Museum.

[@Sebastian-pn8sd]

Alv se parace a mexico

[@user-mw3wk9pb3l]

When the Arab and birbir Came to Iberia the They mixed with the people and They formed the ( Arabiain andulsian people who speak Arabic and were Muslims )which their offsprings lived generations after generations for over 800 years in the four fathers land and established the most significant culture in Europe at that time ; until the Castilians , envied their land and forced them to Christianity or expelled form their four fathers homelands sorry to say that many of Andalusian don’t know may about their ancestors history, l went to Spain,,, and a very very nice and beautiful people to meet I think that because of Arabic blood in their genes

[@sirlordhenrymortimer6620]

علي سالم fuck off. Fuck in Arab lands, this is Spain it is Catholic and this is our land, no place for Islam or moslum

[@jmcr1963]

They never mixed with true Spaniards. علي سالم

[@jmcr1963]

According to all DNA studies there is no Arab blood in Spaniards. You can check in internet hundreds. Sorry for you.

[@sulaimaanahmad]

madeulook yes islaam will never return? looks like it already did brother! 😄😄😄

[@jmcr1963]

Islam has not returned to Spain and for sure you will never see it. Spanish people eat pork, grow and drink wine, and celebrate all Christian festivities just as they have done for centuries. Muslims are a minority who are immigrants looked upon and I can assure you that they will just remain like that. In any case the natives background is Christian and they are not going to change that just because you say so. LOL.

[@akhanusa]

Spanish finally took their land back, which rightfully belonged to them. The story had a happy ending. Lessons learned: "Don't steal someone else's property". :-)

[@mhd2680]

Al-Andalus, whose ancient name was Iberia, was under the Roman Empire, and at the beginning of the fifth century AD, around 410 AD, it was invaded by the Aristotelian Goths and established a Gothic state with Toledo as its capital . Hence, we understand that the original "Andalusian" peoples of the Catholic Canaanites were, before the Islamic conquest, subject to Gothic influence, and their inhabitants were from four competing classes : the ruling, colonial, Roman elite, feudal and clerical, the Jewish class, and the indigenous working class . It was not under the rule of its original inhabitants. Muslims were not the beginners of occupation, but they saved the country from an unjust occupation to a Muslim country whose people chose the Muslim faith and belong to their country. Third : "In addition to the occupation of Andalusia by the Western Gothic tribes, authoritarianism, injustice, and disorder were a prominent feature of their nearly three-centuries-long rule." In his book The Dawn of Al-Andalus (pp. 8,18-19), Hussein Muenas says : "However, their authority did not settle in the country at first because of religious disputes between them and the people of the country and because of disputes between their princes. For this reason the country remained a prey throughout the sixth century to civil wars, resulting in chaos and misery...- until he was the last Gothic ruler - one called Rodrigo (Glue)...What the discussion cannot hide is the fact that the man was uneasy with him, and that he had always been fearful of a bounce from one of his many enemies ; For these enemies were not only the children of Gitega-the king of the Lutheran-but, in fact, the Ibero-Roman people and the Jews, most of the people of the country that the Gothic conquered .

[@Baron_M]

GBLOK

[@MickeyMouse-el5bk]

Makes me angry! Our ancestors drove them out after 800 years and now ... ✝️🙏🏻🇪🇸✋🏻💪🏻⚔️

[@immanuellth6071]

Cry Catholics

[@MickeyMouse-el5bk]

@@immanuellth6071 дурак! Why? Because the West got ill? Look at Russia and ex Jugoslavia they have plenty of mslms and can't get rid of them. Instead of bullying eachother we should stick together.

[@Nicola.M7]

@@MickeyMouse-el5bk we will be back to Andalusia, and we will not make the mistake we did the first time

[@MickeyMouse-el5bk]

@@Nicola.M7 MohammadKelp😘

[@MickeyMouse-el5bk]

@@immanuellth6071 Why are you so dumb? The problem is ours and we should stick together

[@hansguenter6263]

Well, in 1482 the last Muslim bastion of Granada fell in the Reconquista; Fortunately, Spain was completely liberated from Muslim conquerors again! This meant that Spain, like almost all European states, was able to develop free of ecclesiastical and religious obstacles (the Catholic Church tried to slow it down for years, but at some point this ghost was over too!) Spain was able to develop with democracy, humanism, enlightenment, education , secularism, freedom of the press and developing equality between men and women; all attributes that are still missing in Islamic states today:!

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

Do you wonder why you're comment has no likes, cause it's the dumbest and most ignorant crap I've read in a while

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

You should thank the Muslims for all they taught Europeans

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

Look up the achievements brought from Al andalus and you will see, I mean they literally were learning how to fly back then lol, what were the Christians doing besides not bathing and stealing achievements from muslims? lol

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

Most ignorant comment I've read in a while, complete ignorance

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

Spain was never able to achieve enlightenment they all ready did with andalus Muslim golden age and Jewish golden age, it was the golden age of Spain in general

[@theodoreparris8260]

A regressive tragedy.

[@jenny8296]

lol

[@theodoreparris8260]

How's the weather in Greenland Jenny?

[@jenny8296]

I live in Bethlehem not Greenland

[@theodoreparris8260]

Indeed.

[@theodoreparris8260]

and today we see a lot of muslims and no contribution.

[@hubexclusivevaletparkingma9284]

Only Jesus Christ teach Love your enemies

[@thelmaparker7888]

Islam, the crime against humanity!

[@trutherasitis2109]

Thelma Parker ISLAM FOR THE LOVE OFF ALL HUMANITY.

[@islamictheologywining7742]

thanncks serach efdawah

[@tarihikaydet]

Can you say this seeing this civilisation created by Islam in even Europe?

[@thelmaparker7888]

What civilization??????

[@lmlm4398]

read and document yourself ..you will be surprised ...

[@theodoreparris8260]

Is there anything more beautiful - and joyous than worshipping Jesus as God.

[@theodoreparris8260]

He is, whether you, your father and his 24 wives like it or not.

[@theodoreparris8260]

But, friend, you live that hell in the misery of Mohammedanism. If only the muslim heart was as simple as the muslim mind, you would know that joy Haxhi.

[@theodoreparris8260]

Your little profit mohammed couldn't have said it better.

[@joffreybaratheon9044]

Yes worshiping Allah Also is Jesus the son of god or is he the god I don't understand Christianity But I have the answer he's the prophet of god/allah

[@hamzahrawat3479]

Jesus is not God, he was a prophet of God, you make of mockery of God and jesus peace be upon him by saying that, for example if jesus was God, who would he supplicate to when he prayed?? God is not a human and has no human characteristics, God is our creator who created me, you and all of the prophets,