Note from Robert Spencer:
This Spanish-language story from El Mundo (thanks to Silvia) reveals new demands on the Spanish dhimmis: deny your history and culture. Above all, conceal the fact that modern Spain emerged out of seven centuries of Islamic occupation. My rough-and-ready translation of part of the piece

In Western Christendom, the myth of the Christian kingdom ruled by the powerful Prester John who lived beyond the Muslim domains, and hence offered the vision and solace of a powerful Christian ally who might help in the war of defense against an unceasingly aggressive enemy (Muslim raiders continued to loot and destroy villages up and down the coasts of Christian Europe for a thousand years, and kidnapped Christians as far north as Iceland and Ireland), first placed Prester John in India. But later he found permanent residence, in the European imagination, in Ethiopia.

Now, of course, Egypt is looking on favorably as the Sudan does the dirty work of clearing its land -- not of trees, for there aren't any, but of non-Muslims in the south and of non-Arabs in Darfur -- so that the dar al-Islam may expand steadily downward. And next in view for Muslim aggression is Ethiopia, where the Muslim population has risen dramatically -- Muslim families regard their children, quite openly, as soldiers for Jihad (they need not necessarily become little shahids, or "suicide" martyrs, but just being Muslim helps to swell Muslim power).

And in a few years, as Ethiopia, periodically subject to famine, takes a few steps to feed itself by diverting some of the headwaters of the Nile, Egypt will be in a much better position, with the cleansing of the Sudan, to push its way southward, and with a fifth column of Muslims already within Ethiopia, to threaten the Christian government and the Christian Ethiopians who will require support from the outside -- in a kind of reverse of the myth of Prester John.

If the American government would focus now, and not in five years, on the Egyptian-Sudanese threat to Ethiopia, it could turn things around now. A small American military force could quickly rout the Janjaweed, seize both Darfur and the southern Sudan, and remain there until a referendum might be held so that the inhabitants could decide if they wished to remain part of the Sudan -- a completely artifical country spatchcocked together by the British, which yokes Nuer and Dinka tribesmen to the Arabs of the north (It is pleasing to note in passing that Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who writes so unblinkingly about Islam, is a descendant of the famous English anthropologist Evans-Pritchard who wrote "The Nuer") -- or, as I am sure they would choose, to become an independent country. And who could deprive them of that right, after the 2 million killed or deliberately starved to death in the south, or the 70,000 so far killed in Darfur, with more being killed or starved everyday, their livestock killed, their farms destroyed, their houses burned. Would the U.N. protest? Would the Arab League, with a straight face, demand that the blacks continue to accept their enslavement by the Arabs of the north -- and would black African states continue to play dhimmis, or would they at long last rebel, seeing as they do the Arabic script on the wall?

More attention should be paid to Egypt's silent support of the Sudan, despite the phony efforts at "peacemaking" which are designed only to relieve current Western pressure and divert attention so that the murders, and starvation as state policy, can continue, at a level low enough to continue under the radar (10,000 a month seems about right, for that was the figure in the southern Sudan that worked so well).

Particularly clever, and a past master of taqiyya, is Egypt's current ambassador in Washington, who lies nonstop, but in such a pleasing and fluent way (I caught him on NPR yesterday -- one lie after another about how scrupulously Egypt had fulfilled its solemn commitments under the Camp David Accords, and such a display of sweet reason, such thoughtfulness, in his perfect English -- why, I almost forgot for a moment what the Egyptian press and the corrupt regime, and the persecution of the Copts, and the refusal to fulfill one of its obligations to end all "hostile propaganda" against Israel, and the fact that Cairo is a world center for antisemitism and anti-American propaganda -- why, all this one can temporarily overlook in the stream of soothing nonsense and lies that the Egyptian ambassador offers, and who makes one appreciate with renewed force the old definition of an ambassador as someone "who is sent abroad to lie for his country." Really, he deserves a medal from the stratokleptocrats in Cairo. Or if not from Cairo, then from CAIR, for contributions to Islam, in protecting it from any charges about its treatment of the Copts, that is truly an inspiration to taqiyya masters everywhere. Truly, he should be conducting workshops on kitman/taqiyya. What a performance. And of course the smarmy and unctuous "Dick" Gordon was delighted to be his sidekick, carefully vetting and preventing any really seriously damaging callers from being allowed to have their say -- a "Dick" Gordon specialty, and especially when it comes to the MIddle East. One hopes that this creation of the now disgraced czarette, Jane Christo, will be discharged and a full and open competition created for this program (Gordon likes to call it, smarmily, a "conversation" when in fact it is a rather peculiar "conversation" that prevents many of the most articulate would-be participants from uttering a word, and in which the host effectively prevents, through his skewed running commnetary -- one especially appreciates his constant reference to his own foreign reporting as if we are to be impressed by this, and his aboslute and complete refusal even to hint at the tenets of Islam that help to explain much of the present situation -- referring to the "racism" of those who question the wonderfulness of Islam). But this is digression.

Keep Ethiopia, and Egyptian aggression, in mind.

It would be fascinating to see how Fahmy would respond to someone capable of raising the full list of Egypt's violations of solemn commitments under the Camp David Treaty. It would also be instructive to see how he would respond to a number of recent articles, chaste reprints of material found in Arabic, offered without any commentary, at the indispensable website www.memri.org. There one should consult S.D. #801, 802, and 803 for recent material about Egypt. There is a bloodcurdling threat made by the head of the Egyptian Labor (Islamist) Party. But more important is the article by Ihsan al-Tarabulsi, about Egypt's central role in the current spread of Jihad at its most fanatical, and most violent, all over the Muslim world.

So do read those three dispatches, or at least the remarks of Ihsan al-Tarabulsi, about Egypt.

Then one might wish to consult the website of the American Coptic Assocation -- simply google it, or the name of its head, Michael Meunier.

And in order to get a full list of Egypt's violations, so that the next time you happen to hear that the smooth-talking Ambassador Nabil Fahmy -- a kind of updated variant of those ramrod-straight Prussian Junkers whom, in the early to mid-30s, the Hitler regime would send abroad to assure the gullible in America and Britain that things were alright, that in Germany the "right sort of people" -- who had gone to Oxford or Harvard (like Fritzi Hanfstaengl, whom Harvard students had the good sense to boycott) were actually running things, and if only one gave Mr. Hitler just a little of what he wanted, well then....--one should google "Egypt" and "Rael Isaac" for an article on how Egypt has (according to Ambassador Fahmy) or has not (as all the evidence shows) lived up to its promises under the Camp David Accords, once it had pocketed, for the second time, the Sinai, with its oilfields discovered by the Israelis, its three airbases, its $16 billion (in 1978 dollars) in infrastructure, all handed over into the waiting hands of the Egyptians).

Oh, and if you get a chance to attend a speech somwhere given by Ambassador Fahmy, please remember to ask, during the question period, what he makes of the Treaty of al-Hudaibiyyah as the model for all Muslim treaty-making with Infidels -- and whether he thinks Egypt has been successful in its own clever adherence to the traditional Muslim model that Muhammad so nicely provided. It should make even Fahmy stop, for a second or two, before he ignores the question, goes on to something else, suggests that raising such issues is simply provocation and "not helpful" -- oh, there are a thousand ways for him to handle it, not least by appearing to be indignant that anyone should question Egypt's tireless and unceasing "commitment to peace."

You bet.

A native of Sardinia has noted that the Sardinian flag also has four Saracen heads. While the international rich frolicking at Cala di Volpe (no doubt some Arabs among them) care only about where their next ten million is coming from, the natives of Sardinia, eating their spaghetti alla bottarga, a little birdie in Cagliari assures me, would forcefully resist any attempts to censor the Sardinian flag, and have become keenly aware of, and alarmed by, Muslim immigrants who, as on the mainland, act in a manner toward the native non-Muslims that is "prepotente" (arrogant, domineering, tyrannical), acting as if they own the country, and from the Muslim point of view, all the world belongs to Islam, and to Believers. This goes far beyond what now seem to be the minor annoyances of the African streetsellers, the tribe of vu-cumpra.

Fortunately, Italy is not Spain; Sardinia is not Aragon. And Berlusconi, for all his many faults, is not Zapatero.