Showing posts with label Día de la Toma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Día de la Toma. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 January 2014
In this video you see the group of young Spanish patriots appear and take up position in the Plaza del Carmen. Their spokesman conducts an eloquent defence of the Reconquista, of patriotism, and of nationhood generally, while leftists/Muslims shout and jeer at them from the other side, singing, among other things, "No a la Toma, Sí a Mariana" [Mariana Pineda, Spanish leftist].
Both sides sing songs whose names and words I don't know. If you know, leave a comment.
This was the flyer the patriot group was handing out on the day.
Thursday, 2 January 2014
Here are some pictures of the leftists/Muslims protesting against the Día de la Toma commemoration. They jeered and whistled all through it, shouting "No to the Toma, Yes to Mariana". [Mariana was a 19th century leftist]. A group of Spanish patriots from the Alianza Nacional on the other side challenged them and displayed a banner saying "Proud of the Reconquista". I'll post videos later.
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
I've arrived in Granada. I took my laptop and iPad with me but forgot to bring the chargers, so I can't use them much or I'll burn through the batteries. For that reason there won't be much posting for the next few days. But tomorrow I''ll go to the Día de la Toma commemoration and, hopefully, some of the counter demonstrations and get photos or videos to share with you later.
Check out the propaganda in the hotel room.
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
The juventud andaluza independentista, feminista y comunista [Separatist, Feminist & Communist Andalusian Youth] want to make a call to reject with all our energies the act that, as every year, is going to take place on the next 2nd of January 2014 in Granada, to commemorate the Castilian conquest of the city.Source
We indicate our most passionate contempt for the Town Council of Granada, which consents to and promotes such displays of hatred and contempt for the history of Andalusia, favouring the presence of neo-fascist organisations and groups, who consider this event to represent "the expulsion of the last Moors from Spain."
The festival of the 2nd of January, restored by the Franco government, shows a lack of respect for all the Working People of Andalusia, but especially the people of Granada. We demand that the Granada city government restore the 25 of May, the day of Mariana Pineda [tn: Spanish 19th century left-winger], as a local festival.
Finally, we call on all the youth of the Working People of Andalusia to come en masse to the gathering against the official acts of "The Toma", which will take place on the same 2nd of January at 10 in morning in the Plaza del Carmen.
The Granada Open Platform invites you to the alternative act "For the Dialogue between Cultures, No to the Toma", which will be held on the 2nd of January 2014 in the Fundación Euroárabe [EuroArab Foundation], and in which José Chamizo de la Rubia, ex-Defender of the Andalusian People [tn: a kind of public ombudsman], and president of the Volunteer Association for Another World.
A message of support sent by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former director general of UNESCO and president of the Fundación Cultura de Paz [Culture of Peace Foundation].
Granada Open Platform is formed by:
Manifiesto 2 de Enero, Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos, Asociación Andaluza por la Solidaridad y la Paz, Izquierda Unida-Convocatoria por Andalucía, Forum de Política Feminista, Asociación Mariana Pineda, Comunidades Cristianas Populares, Mezquita de la Paz, Asociación de Mediadores Interculturales, Asociación Cultural Almenara, Asociación Gitana Anaquerando, Unidad Cívica Andaluza por la República, Granada Laica, Asociación Democracia y Derecho, Sindicato de Periodistas de Andalucía y Centro de Estudios Históricos de Andalucía.
Note the EuroArab Foundation receives public money. And the presence of the Journalist Trade Union of Andalusia on the list is very interesting too.
Thursday, 20 June 2013
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| Michelle Jenner, the actress who plays Isabel |
The "Plataforma Granada Abierta" [Open Granada Platform] has criticised the fact that the main actors in the TVE television series 'Isabel' presented a floral tribute before the sepulchre of the Catholic Monarchs in the Royal Chapel in Granada, claiming that this was a "sectarian act" which was inappropriate for the actors in a television series financed "by the taxes of everyone".Source: 20Minutos.es
This association, together with citizenship associations, human rights organisations and IU [tn: United Left, basically Commmunists], were referring to the tribute offered this Monday in front of the sepulchre of the Catholic Monarchs by Michelle Jenner and Rodolfo Sancho, who play the parts of Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragón in the series, before filming of some chapters in the Alhambra and Granada started the following day.
In this context, Granada Abierta wanted to signal its "concern" about the fact that "two professional actors, who work on a public television series financed by the taxes of everyone", have "been used to perform a sectarian act of national-Catholic propaganda, which divides the citizenry."
Thus they warn that with this floral tribute the actors, as far as they know unconsciously, have rendered a "homage" to the monarchs who "did not fulfil the Capitulations [surrender terms] of Granada, approved the Inquisition, started ethnic and cultural cleansing in the city of Granada and signed the edicts of expulsion of Jews and moriscos [tn: Muslims who pretended to convert to Christianity]."
"We consider that the exaltation of the victory of some and the defeat of others represents a step backwards in the democratic values of tolerance, convivencia and intercultural dialogue", adds a note from this association which has linked this act with the celebration of the Día de la Toma [Day of the Capture] of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs which is celebrated in the city every 2nd of January.
In the judgement of Granada Abierta, this celebration organised by the city council of Granada attracts "more and more far-right groups who identify with the authoritarian regime of the Catholic Monarchs, from which the Franco regime borrowed symbols and ideology."
Monday, 7 January 2013
Last Wednesday, I was in Granada, celebrating the city's recapture from the Mohammedan horde. But it seems we weren't the only ones who remembered it. Hundreds of Egyptians marked the occasion with a demonstration in Safenex Square in Cairo.
The demonstration was organised by the Libres [Free Men?] movement (Harakat Ahrar); the demonstrators arranged a human chain around Safenex square and carried placards which said: "We will definitely return". "We haven't forgotten Al Ándalus" and "Of course we will return".Source: WebIslam Via: AlertaDigital
The demonstrators also carried photos of Palestine and flags of the movement and showed documentaries about the history of Al Ándalus.
Incidentally, in the article I have part-translated above, WebIslam talks about "the lamentable fact of the capture of Granada". WebIslam is a website subsidised by the Spanish government. Spanish taxpayers are now paying for the denigration of their successful recapture of national territory from an invading enemy force. That's what it has come to.
Thursday, 3 January 2013
I've made a few posts about the Día de la Toma (Day of the Capture) ceremony which commemorates Granada's recovery from Mohammedan rule. I also mentioned the fact that various leftists and Muslims were demanding the abolition of this ceremony which they decry as "fascist" and "racist". One of the principal organisers of this protest movement is the Fundación Euroárabe, which also played host to an alternative "No to the Toma" ceremony yesterday.
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Examining the documentation on the website of this organisation, it becomes clear that is largely (and quite possibly entirely) financed by European taxpayers. There is no clear statement on its website about where its funding comes from, but the various small details leave no room for doubt.
Also to be mentioned is the participation of the EuroArab [Foundation] in the coming years 2012 and 2013 in the Erasmus Mundus program, as an associate entity in three programs funded by the European Commission. The projects are Al Idrisi, led by the University of Granada which encourages cooperation and interchange between Europe, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia; the project led by the University of Wales, which encourages interchange between Europe, Egypt and Lebanon; and the third project, led by the University of Lund (Sweden), based on interchange between Europe, Jordan and Syria.Source
As well as the EU, the organisation has ties to many Spanish governmental organisations.
This is how it describes itself on its web page.
The Euro-Arab foundation for advanced studies has its origins in the agreement adopted by the European Parliament in 1984 for the creation of the Euro-Arab university. On 10 October 1995, the Euro-Arab Foundation for Advanced Studies came into existence, a institution whose composition and mission made it unique in the international sphere: to create a space for dialogue and cooperation between the countries of the European Union and those of the League of Arab States.Source
...Through its activities, the Euro-Arab Foundation dedicates all of its efforts to encouraging Euro-Arab cooperation, stimulating academic, social and cultural activities, as well as disseminating new developments and trends in the sciences and humanities. Through collaboration agreements, the Euro-Arab foundation maintains relations with a large number of institutions and organisation in the spheres of education, research, economics, cooperation and culture.
In her book Eurabia, Bat Ye'or describes how the EU and Arab governments worked together to promote the dissemination of Arab culture and language in Europe. The Euro-Arab foundation is clearly one of the bitter fruits of this process.
Its "Activities" page includes an article about the UN granting observer status to "Palestine". What does this have to do with the statutory objectives of this organisation?
An organisation founded nominally for cultural purposes is now overtly engaging in highly controversial political activities, promoting the islamisation and de-Europeanisation of Europe. It is absolutely shameful that European taxpayers are being forced to pay for their own history, culture and traditions to be systematically undermined and disparaged.
This person had a better vantage point than me, so I'll post this video rather than the one I made.
On the left you can see crazed leftists/Muslims with a "No to the Toma/No to Fascism" banner.
The essence of the ceremony is a kind of incantation in which the person with the banner of Castile utters a set form of words in a ritual manner and the people present give ritual responses. The flag is then waved from the balcony. This happens three times. I saw a beautiful woman teaching the words and the correct responses to her small daughter yesterday before the ceremony. This tradition isn't going to die out any time soon.
¿Granada?
Crowd: ¿Qué? [What?]
¿Granada?
Crowd: ¿Qué? [What?]
¿Granada?
Crowd: ¿Qué? [What?]
Por los ínclitos Reyes Católicos, Don Fernando V el de Aragón y Doña Isabel I de Castilla,
[From the illustrious Catholic Monarchs, Don Fernando V of Aragón and Doña Isabel I of Castile]
¡Viva España! [Long live Spain!]
Crowd: ¡Viva!
¡Viva el Rey! [Long live the King!]
Crowd: ¡Viva!
¡Viva Andalucía! [Long live Andalusia!]
Crowd: ¡Viva!
¡Viva Granada! [Long live Granada!]
Crowd: ¡Viva!
Some photos I took yesterday. More later.
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| What we took back: the Alhambra |
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| The last Muslim ruler, Boabdil, handing over the keys to Fernando and Isabella |
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| I took this photo in the Capilla Real (Royal Chapel) in Granada, where Fernando and Isabella are buried |
Friday, 28 December 2012
¿Granada, Granada, Granada? ¿ Qué? Por los ínclitos Reyes Católicos, Don Fernando V el de Aragón y Doña Isabel I de Castilla, ¡Viva España!, ¡Viva el Rey!, ¡Viva Andalucía! y ¡Viva Granada!
Granada, Granada, Granada? What? From the illustrious Catholic Monarchs, Don Fernando V of Aragón and Doña Isabel I of Castile, long live Spain! Long live the King! Long live Andalusia! And long live Granada!
It was the recapture of Granada in 1492 that finally cleansed western Europe of Muslim rule. Now leftists want the festival that traditionally commemorates this event to be suppressed, claiming it is "fascist".
Plataforma Granada Abierta [Open Granada Platform] has demanded that the town council of Granada, together with the municipal groupings of the PSOE and IU [political parties], suppress the festival of the Día de la Toma [Day of the Capture] of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs, as they consider that it "encourages the display of symbols that make an apology for fascism" and which are contrary to the Law of Historical Memory.Source: Europa Press Via: AlertaDigital
The coordinator of Granada Abierta, Francisco Vigueras, Declares that the Day of the Capture "has a dogwhistle effect on far-right groups with a high right for democratic convivencia". According to his information, it concerns "fascist and neo-nazi groups of a violent character, who last year committed "their first attack against a journalist who was reporting about the act".
"For this reason we request that the municipal government puts an end to this embarrassing spectacle, before we have cause to regret an irreparable violent action...
...Among the support Granada Abierta has received against the Day of the Capture, Vigueras made reference to the former director general of UNESCO and president of the Fundación Cultura [Cultural Foundation], Federico Mayor Zaragoza, to the defender of the Andalusian People, José Chamizo, and to the president of the Movement against Intolerance, Esteban Ibarra, "who included the Capture in the Raxem report on racism, for being a racist and xenophobic festival that foments crimes of hatred".
I wasn't aware of this festival before I came across this story. But I might try and get to it next week. Sounds like I should fit right in!
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