Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Belated Cordoba Cathedral Update

(ZENIT News / Córdoba, 09.19.2025).- The Cathedral of Córdoba, one of Spain’s most iconic religious monuments, faced an unsettling episode last month when repeated bomb threats forced police to sweep the site and activate emergency protocols. Authorities later arrested a man in Palencia, hundreds of kilometers away, accusing him of public disorder and hate crimes linked to the incident. On August 12, the cathedral’s security staff received nearly twenty threatening phone calls over several hours, warning of explosives in the building. For more than an hour, the vast medieval complex—visited daily by thousands of tourists and pilgrims—was combed by officers and evacuated in parts, until investigators determined the alarm was false. While no explosives were found, the caller, according to Spain’s National Police, used racist and xenophobic language alongside his threats. Tracing the calls eventually led officers to the north of the country, where the suspect was taken into custody.

Who was the suspect?

Background. Additional background.

"...the building evokes a supposedly harmonious past, when Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived together in peace, an idea that the Spanish refer to as convivencia, or “coexistence.”

If the above is true and a genuine ex‎pression of Islamic "tolerance", why not apply it to Jerusalem's Temple Mount?"
  
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18 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can be the loving kind Israel with the moral highground and wisdom learned in your ordeal as a people. Or you can be the vengeful hating nation copying what was done to you, being that on others.

YMedad said...

I'd rather be the existing Nation of Israel, not the slaughtered one. Morality means life. Immoral are those who seek to kill Jews, demean them, injure them and deny our national identity in our historic homeland.

Anonymous said...

Zionist Israel is not trying to defend itself, it is just trying to be bigger.

Anonymous said...

Was Germany trying to defend itself from the wealthy Jews? See where your argument can easily go?

Anonymous said...

Israel is an apartheid state currently committed to expansionist genocide, those are the facts. You are no better than any of the Germans going along with the Nazis!

YMedad said...

Your comment lacks logic. German political antisemitism began early 19th century with Hep-Hep riots (you know Luther was antisemitic with nothing to do with wealth). You have no argument.

YMedad said...

You have no facts. Only irrational antisemitic theories.

Anonymous said...

the facts are in todays news. israeli arabs do not have the same rights as israeli jews, thus apartheid, idf in gaza and settlers on the west bank is clearly expansionist genocide, you probably do not read haaretz but it has written many articles about how nethanyahus actions kept hamas in power, how he helped to dominate other more moderate palistinian groups, and nethanyahu was caught on video saying he wanted hamas to attack israel so he would get an excuse for doing what he then did in gaza

Anonymous said...

I might add that most of the jewish caualities on october 7 were from friendly fire of idf, and then the probaganda arm of idf cooked up stories of rape and babies in ovens, crimes idf has been documented many times doing, i.e. gang rapes and killing babies.

Anonymous said...

When does one Genocide stop justify another?

Anonymous said...

Apologies if I stepped over the line, I realize this philosophy of Zionism has been important for you for most of your life.

YMedad said...

Wrong.

YMedad said...

Israel is not enngaged in genocide and the figures Hamas publishes are incorrect.

YMedad said...

If not attacked, Israel would not be fighting or expanding. In 2005 we actually left Gaza altogether.

Anonymous said...

There is a specific definition of genocide, and Israel has met that definition.

YMedad said...

Nope.

Anonymous said...

The 1948 UN Genocide Convention (Article II) defines genocide as specific acts committed with the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."

Current international legal proceedings (such as South Africa v. Israel) and UN reports have documented that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet this threshold through:

Physical Acts: The killing of tens of thousands of civilians and the "total siege" causing mass starvation and dehydration.

Destruction of Life: The systematic targeting of hospitals, water infrastructure, and shelters, creating conditions "calculated to bring about physical destruction."

Documented Intent: Numerous recorded statements from high-ranking officials calling for the erasure or "thinning" of the population in Gaza.

Anonymous said...

So there you go, the opressed has become the opressor.