Significant Cordoba House Caliphate

Considering that Islamic anti-semitism is a basic tenet of Islam. This is particularly disgusting. Talk about giving us the middle finger................. in an oped piece in, of course, the propaganda arm of the Islamic machine, The NY Times.

How better to commemorate 9/11 than to urge our fellow Muslims, fellow Christians and fellow Jews to follow the fundamental common impulse of our great faith traditions?

Yes, how better to "commemorate 911" than with a giant triumphal mosque named Cordoba. Cordoba, an Iberian and Roman city, was the capital of the Islamic caliphate which conquered and occupied Spain for nearly 800 years. During this time Cordoba was one of the largest cities in the world; its name continues to represent a symbol of Islamic conquest to many faithful Muslims around the world.

**Muslim armies invaded Spain in 711 and had conquered nearly all of it by 718. Before that, Spain was a collection of Christian Kingdoms in which there was a significant Jewish presence. After the Muslim conquest, the Christians and Jews in Muslim Spain were relegated to dhimmi status -- deprived of basic rights. Cordoba was a major Roman city in Southern Spain. In the 10th century it became the capital of the Caliphate of Cordoba from 929 to 1031. It was reconquered by the Christians in 1236.

Cordoba was the site of the caliphate of Cordoba and major pogrom in the year 1011.

Yet the philosopher Maimonides, a Jew who lived for a time in Muslim Spain and then fled that supposedly tolerant and pluralistic land, remarked, "You know, my brethren, that on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael, who persecute us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us....No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have....We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, and absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear."

Notably, Maimonides directed that Jews could teach rabbinic law to Christians, but not to Muslims. For Muslims, he said, will interpret what they are taught "according to their erroneous principles and they will oppress us. [F]or this reason ... they hate all [non-Muslims] who live among them." But the Christians, he said, "admit that the text of the Torah, such as we have it, is intact"--as opposed to the Islamic view that the Jews and Christians have corrupted their scriptures. Christians, continued Maimonides, "do not find in their religious law any contradiction with ours."