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[La_Serpiente]

Most of the points mentioned in her column are based on hearsay either from the book or from her own personal experiences. Honestly, I don't seriously think that all of those things happened. The Supreme Court has ruled that school officials cannot saction organized religous events...such as like everyone is being forced to go to an assembly and pray....but they are required to allow individuals to pray if they indeed choose to do so.

I really don't think that those events happened. If they did happen, the author probably left a lot of stuff out.

And with the invasion in Spain against the Christian Visigoths, the Moors didn't just punished Chrisitans that stood in their way. Most Christians lived in peace with the Moors. These Chrisitians that didn't convert to Islam but still remained in Moorish controlled territory were called "MozArabes". Of course, they had to pay a tax since they weren't Muslim, but they still lived in peace. Christians that convert to Islam weren't killed. These people were called "Muladies".

Christians who didn't want to have anything to do with Islam lived in the upper North-Western part of the country in Galicia past the mountains of "Cordillera Cantabrica". On occasion, the Moors tried to take them over, but it didn't work. The Moors ended up just giving up.

And what was suprising was that Jews and Moors lived in Peace then. It was the Spanish Inquisistion that killed Jews and Muslims. If it wasn't for the Moors of Spain, the European Renissance wouldn't have occured. The Moors, who were very enlightened, translated all of the literature of the Greeks and Romans. They also organized all of the information. The Moors had a greater impact on Western Society that most people don't give them credit for.