Showing posts with label Islam in Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islam in Spain. Show all posts
Friday, March 13, 2009
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY: Roderic, also known as Ruderic, was a priest at Cabra, Spain during the persecution of Christians by the Moors. Hew [sic] was beaten into unconsciousness by his two brothers, one a Mohammedan and the other a fallen-away Catholic, when he tried to stop an argument between them. The Mohammedan brother then paraded him through the streets proclaiming that he wished to become a Mohammedan. He escaped but was denounced to the authorities by the same brother as an apostate from Mohammedanism and imprisoned through he denied he had ever given [sic] up his Christianity. While in prison, he met a man named Solomon, also charged with apostasy, and after a long imprisonment, they were both beheaded. [Source: CNA] Friday, March 13, 2009
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
ISLAMONLINE.NET: MADRID — Thousands of Spaniards, especially intellectuals, academics and anti-globalization activists, are finding comfort and solace in Islam.
"Embracing Islam is on the rise despite ferocious Western media campaigns," Abdul-Nour Brado, the head of the Islamic Society of Catalonia, told IslamOnline.net.
Estimates suggest that between 3,000 to 4,000 Catalonians accepted Islam recently.
"The numbers could be much higher than that," Barado believes.
Local media reports have noted that intellectuals, academics and anti-globalization activists make up the bulk of the new Muslim reverts in Spain.
Catalonians first embraced Islam in the 1960s and their numbers were quite few.
Now thousands of Catalonians are believed to have joined the fold of Islam.
The Spanish autonomous province of Catalonia covers an area of 31,950 km² with an official population of 6.3 million, and its capital is Barcelona.
It is home to around 100,000 Moroccan immigrants, which is attributed to the geographical proximity with Morocco.
The southern European country has an estimated Muslim minority of about at 1.5 million out of a total population of 40 million.
Islam is the second religion after Christianity and has been recognized through the law of religious freedom, issued in July 1967. Islam Comforts Spanish Intellectuals >>> By Al-Amin Andalusi, IOL Correspondent | September 25, 2008
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