Spanish Town Bans Muslim Religious Festivals After Nearby Town Was Rocked by Riots
A Spanish town has become the first in the country to ban Muslims from using public facilities to celebrate religious Eid festivals just weeks after a nearby area was rocked by anti-migrant riots. The Mail has more.
The controversial ban was passed in Jumilla, a town in the Murcia region with a population of around 27,000 – roughly 7.5% of whom come from mostly Muslim countries.
The motion was proposed by Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) and backed by the hard right Vox party.
It prohibits the public facilities such a sports halls and civic centres being used for “religious, cultural or social activities alien to our identity” unless officially organised by the local council.
It comes less than a month after several people were left injured during anti-migrant rioting in Torre Pacheco, just 70 miles from Jumilla, when a pensioner was reportedly beaten up by three Moroccan men.
A 68 year-old man told Spanish media he was beaten up in the street on July 9th by three young men of North African origin.
Amid the announcement of the latest ban, critics have said the wording is a thinly veiled attack on Islamic traditions, and have warned that the ruling could breach Spain’s constitutionally protected freedom of religion.
The local Vox party openly celebrated the decision, declaring on X: “Thanks to Vox the first measure to ban Islamic festivals in Spain’s public spaces has been passed. Spain is and will be forever the land of Christian people.”
The move prevents Muslims in Jumilla from gathering in public gyms or civic buildings to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha, the Islamic festival of sacrifice.
Muslim leaders have condemned the decision.
Mounir Benjelloun Andaloussi Azhari, president of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Organisations, said the ban was a direct attack on the country’s Muslim population, calling it “Islamophobic and discriminatory”.
“They’re not going after other religions, they’re going after ours,” he told Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Referring to the recent rise of racist rhetoric and attacks, he added: “We’re rather surprised by what’s happening in Spain. For the first time in 30 years I feel afraid.”
Legal experts have warned the ban could face a constitutional challenge. Article 16 of Spain’s constitution grants freedom of religious belief, with the only restriction being the protection of public order.
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Islam is not a race. It would be like calling Liverpool supporters a race.
I would be extremely racist, because I absolutely hate Liverpool fans.
Had a feeling this comment was coming 😅
In that you are not alone…
Heysel
(City fan)
2014 LFC hack our scouting database. Punishment? Slap on the wrists
2018 LFC fans attack City coach so badly it had to be replaced for the return journey
2022 Another coach attack
2022? Young female City fan scarred for life by a sharpened coin thrown by an LFDC fan at the Etihad.
Fans?
Reconquista 2: The Sequel
Ban Muslims. Deport Muslims. Make being a Musulman illegal.
That first one wasn’t too imaginative, these might be better.
Reconquista 2: Deus Vult
Reconquista 2: The Spaniard Awakens
Reconquista 2: Carry On Pedro!
“Amid the announcement of the latest ban, critics have said the wording is a thinly veiled attack on Islamic traditions, and have warned that the ruling could breach Spain’s constitutionally protected freedom of religion.”
It’s not “thinly veiled” it is an open and honest statement of intent and there is nothing wrong with this. Spain suffered for eight hundred years under the islamic barbarians and any Spanish person with any sense would realise that the current encroachment will any badly if not stopped.
Similar measures are required in the United Kingdom.
Congratulations to the people of Jumilla. The wine is lovely by the way.😀😀🍷🍷🍷
What happens when the vast majority decide your minority ‘religious, cultural or social activities’ are alien to their identity and ban you?
They have banned specific activities from public spaces, they have not banned people.
Not saying I am on either side of this, just offering clarification.
This is most definitely not the same as, say, banning Jews from sitting on park benches, as happened in Germany and Austria in the Thirties. Muslims in Spain are free to use the public space in the same way as other folk, just not for specific activities. Same applies to Christians, they are also banned from carrying out certain activities in public spaces, even tho Spain is a Christian country.
What happens when the vast majority decide your minority group’s ‘religious, cultural or social activities’ are alien to their identity and they ban your minority group.
Better?
No, the have not banned a minority group. They have banned from certain public spaces certain activities.
Don’t go mad, EUbrainwashing.
Yes indeed though I would be surprised if people had been banned from celebrating Christmas or Easter in public spaces.
I agree broadly with the sentiment, but Spain is, after all, a Christian country, and they are free to decide their own rules. They have not embarked upon pogroms, tof.
This move by the people of Jumilla is nevertheless slightly concerning to me, because some may see it as a green light for pogroms and things like that. But I don’t think they will.
It is traditionally Christian and that is presumably still the majority religion, but they don’t have an established church that I am aware of, as we do, and I would imagine some freedom of religion stuff is in their constitution. I am not overly keen on mass immigration, would not want to live in a majority Muslim country, and am not too keen on Islam as it seems to be interpreted by some becoming a feature of life in the UK. Equally I am not keen on banning things on “public safety” grounds as I think that leads to the tyranny of the majority. This seems to be a move designed to make Muslims feel unwelcome or to make it clear they must keep their religion more private. Perhaps some may think it will lead to those people leaving the country or fewer people like them coming in, or they will feel more pressure to become more integrated. Perhaps those are good aims. I have difficulty if those are aims because if people are in the country legally and they are abiding by the law (apart from this new law or “order”) then that’ss the hole we have dug for… Read more »
Exactly: dug our own grave!
While this may not be the aim in this case, orders like this can be used against other groups’ activities – for example, an anti-lockdown protest. Always the danger that state power is used against whoever the state doesn’t like at a given point in time.
Like using computer systems supposedly developed to track terrorist’s communications and it ends-up tracking everything we may inadvertently say in a moment of peak (Connolly).
Yeah well tof, Muslims ARE unwelcome they have been making a nuisance of themselves for far too long already, and as far as I am concerned, see my previous comment.
Some of them. They seem to be over-represented in certain areas of criminal and other antisocial activity, as do some ethnic groups. Islam is not a race – I wonder if actually the correlation is more racial than religious (much as I am not keen on what I know about Islam, especially the political aspect). But they are here, most of them legally. Realistically making them feel unwelcome would need to be done on a massive scale, with determination, over a long period of time, for it to make much difference, and in the meantime it would cause a lot of trouble. I do not like where we are but I don’t see this kind of ban as a solution. I don’t know the background to this – it says there were riots, but caused by who or what?
We need to robustly act in the way, to the standards, in which we expect others to act – set a fine example. And we need to force ‘the state’ to do its job and not fill our country with unsuitable, dangerous, miserable, bedfellows who don’t respect our standards or want to enjoy what this country and its people have to offer. Anything less is failing to be the best we can be – and I believe we – the British – are still the best, most just, most fair, most moral people in the world.
Re-read the quote, it says: prohibits public facilities from being used for “religious, cultural or social activities [that are] alien to our identity”
It is the ‘alien to our identity’ that sets a most dangerous and illiberal precedent.
I am not keen on that. By all means clamp down on behaviour we don’t like, hard – but surely there are existing laws for that.
I agree.. I just wanted to make the point that they have not banned a certain group of people.
Let’s not get confused over what is actually happening here. We are all aware of what could happen, but let’s remind each other that there are lots of things that could happen.
You fuck off back to the shithole you came from and stop breaking our balls (translated literally from the italian).
You miss the point. This mindset sets a precedent where before too long it will be endangered and rare white Christians who are being told their way of living is ‘alien’ to a majority group and they will have no bog-hole to ferret off back too. Then what?
Well, then it’s time for war.
Such as in this country, except here it’s the Christian majority who are often treated differently, ie. less favourably, from the Muslim minority.
How much will that improve when Christians become the minority?
Yeah well try that in a majority Christian country where unlike England people really feel it – at the end of the day we will win this we are the majority and I am confident we are reaching a tipping point where large numbers of folk will wakeup and think, you know what, it doesn’t have to be this shit.
I fancy the economy will (soon) crash so hard anyone without a very strong desire to remain living in the UK, no matter what, will take a rapid exit. Why wouldn’t they. They only came here for what they can get, so when there’s no more free stuff they will go. Plus: I suspect climate change is real but totally natural (and it is not warming, it’s cooling).
I think you’re right about the climate.
Whether the crashed economy and utter destitution for native brits will be enough to rid us of these unwanted parasites it’s hard to say.
Let’s hope so
Here we are hoping our country will economically fail! What a mad world, but a) it look most likely and b) it will be a net gain (if migrants are only here for the upside we are well shot of them all).
Muhammadanism is very dangerous for women and freedom. It needs to be removed from all western societies.
When a vast majority decides to ban a minority, it’s usually because the minority has provoked them endlessly.
Agree with this comment. Maybe it’s the ( possibly ) cherry-picked footage/articles in the echo chambers I ( perhaps ) inhabit but when do we hear of Islam in the context of tolerance, forgiveness, love, respect and kindness to others etc? I feel ( never having read the Koran, obv ) that if you distilled down any actual benevolent religious teachings from that book you’d be left with a piece of paper that you could fit in your back pocket.
”The world needs to stop believing Muslims and Islam are a religion. It’s a theocracy. It’s a political structure for government. The religion is the control mechanism used by the government to achieve its ends-world domination. It is no more bigotry to discriminate against Islamic believers and principles than it is to discriminate against Republicans, Demorats, Tories, Likuds or Independents. The difference between the Islam governments and all others is that Islam is an enemy of the world.”
https://x.com/Hanrahan1949/status/1953428834931601673
What if we extended the same rights to Muslims in European countries as are extended to Christians in Muslim countries? Fair doos?
Do we reflect the best of how Muslims treat Christians in Muslim countries or mirror the very worst? In many Muslim-majority countries, Christians experience varying degrees of restrictions on religious freedom. While some countries guarantee religious freedom in their constitutions, others impose limitations on public displays of Christian faith, church construction, and even private worship. Proselytising and conversion from Islam are often restricted or prohibited, and societal discrimination and violence against Christians can be a concern. Key points regarding Christian rights in Muslim countries: Constitutional Rights: Some countries have constitutions that recognize Islam as the state religion and incorporate Sharia law, while also providing some protections for religious minorities. Restrictions on Religious Practice: Public displays of Christianity, such as church construction and religious gatherings, may be restricted or banned. Proselytization and Conversion: In many Muslim-majority countries, proselytizing or converting from Islam to Christianity is prohibited or severely restricted. Social Discrimination and Violence: Christians may face social discrimination, harassment, and even violence from extremist groups or individuals, particularly in areas with weak law enforcement. Education: In some countries, Christian children may be prohibited from learning about their faith in schools, even in private institutions. Legal Protections: While some countries may have laws against hate speech… Read more »
A siren call, and a lesson to all of us.
It can be done and must be done.
Spain forcibly removed Muhammadanism from its land finally, in 1492. What in God’s name are they doing allowing this plague to rise again?
Go! Spain. Go! Vox.
Never let Muhammadans into your land. You will regret it