"The Warrior Saint Spain Wants to Forget" by Raymond Ibrahim

 “Let the Enemies of Christ Fall Beneath His Sword!”

Today, Spain commemorates its patron saint, James, son of Zebedee. Known primarily as the elder brother of John the Evangelist, for more than a thousand years he was far better known as Santiago Matamoros — St. James the Moor (that is, Muslim) slayer — and was the embodiment of Spain’s holy war against Islam. On this of all days, recalling his story seems not only appropriate but necessary. 

In the year 711, Muslims from North Africa poured into Christian Spain—a land many believe St. James himself evangelized in the first century AD. I have already documented the atrocities Muslims committed during this invasion (see Chapters 3 and 6 of Sword and Scimitar), but for our present purpose, two facts are relevant.

First, not all of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered; a remnant of Christians who refused to bow to Muslim rule retreated into the mountainous region of Asturias in the northwest.

Second, Muslim aggression continued against this fledgling Christian enclave until the late eighth century, when a fragile peace was struck on the humiliating condition that the Christian king of Asturias send 100 virgin girls each year to the emir of Córdoba.

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