Apologists for Islam including those agitating for a mosque and Muslim community center at Ground Zero (labeled as the "Cordoba Initiative") never tire of referring to the "Golden Age" of tolerance that supposedly characterized seven centuries of Muslim dominated Spain. This fundamentally flawed assessment draws the wrong conclusion based on fragmentary evidence and distorts the larger picture. It is usually portrayed in such rosy terms by those who have no access to primary Spanish language historical sources and ignores the reality of enormous destruction wrought by the three Arab-Berber Muslim invasions that repeatedly sought to hold on to control and rule over the indigenous peoples of Spain who had been reduced to second class citizens in their own homeland; see for example the recent best seller - Espana Frente al Islam De Mahoma a Ben Laden" by Cesar Vidal, 2005; La Sfera de los Libros.

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