Afghanistan Today, the GWOT Hotspot (The Afghanistan Scandal?) 2-5-11-Sat.

While the war drags on in Afghanistan into another month, hotspots around the world are flaring up. Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, and even VMI-Virginia Military Institute. VMI is hosting a “celebration” of the Muslim conquest of Christian Spain! I could barely believe my eyes to read this, but please read it at link #1:

1.) Virginia Military Institute (VMI) sponsors a conference which celebrates the conquest of Spain by Muslims. The list of events, speeches, speakers, etc. appears, at this time, to be very one-sided. Perhaps before they have the conference, they will present a more diverse panel and show how the Muslims treated Christians, and how the Muslims invaded Spain and did not respect cultural diversity of the Christians whose land they invaded. Link:

http://bigpeace.com/pspoole/2011/02/03/vmi-celebrates-muslim-invasion-brutal-781-year-occupation-of-spain/#idc-cover

2.) Diana West’s take on the VMI “East meets West” conference:

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1673/Virginia-Dhimmitary-Institute.aspx

3.) More updates on the VMI controversy, they are now scrubbing the term “celebration” from their we site information on the conference. I also wonder why the word “crossing” instead of “conquest” is listed still? Link:

http://bigpeace.com/pspoole/2011/02/04/vmi-scrubbing-information-on-conference-celebrating-islamic-invasion-and-occupation-of-spain-after-big-peace-report/

4.) Martyrs of Cordoba:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Córdoba

5.) Muslim call to end capitalism, a 2003 story which mentions the first mosque built in Spain in over 500 years, at Granada:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3061833.stm