{"id":1878,"date":"2004-03-15T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2004-03-15T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T06:59:00","slug":"spanish_muslims_brace_for_3_11_backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/03\/spanish_muslims_brace_for_3_11_backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid bombing: Spanish Muslims brace for 3\/11 backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/madrid_masjid.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\u00a1Dios m\u00edo!<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Spanish Muslims are having their John Allen Muhammad moment this week, following the horrific <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com%2Furl%3Fntc%3D0M1A2%26q%3Dhttp:\/\/www.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F2004-03-14-spain-election-cover_x.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">train bombings<\/a> that killed at least 200 people.  (You remember that \u2013 when Muslims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Farticle%3FAID%3D%2F20030621%2FNEWS10%2F106210073\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hoped<\/a> that the captured Washington DC sniper would be anyone but a Muslim, only to be betrayed by that last name?)  \u201cThe people who did this are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F03%2F15%2Finternational%2Feurope%2F15MUSL.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ignoramuses<\/a> who have stones for hearts,\u201d said Imam Ali al-Messery at a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fuk_news%2Fengland%2Fwest_midlands%2F3508792.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">prayer service<\/a> in Madrid on Friday. \u201cPlease God, please God, let it not be Muslims!\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The righteous anger that welled up from the Spanish populace was initially focused on the Basque separatist group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basque-red.net%2Fhomei.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ETA<\/a>, but various shadowy Muslim groups (including one that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com%2Fcs%2FCDA%2Fssistory.mpl%2Fnation%2F2447555\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">took credit<\/a> for last year\u2019s East Coast blackouts) insisted on claiming responsibility.  In addition to causing political upheaval in Spain (the current pro-war government was <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net%2FNR%2Fexeres%2F3095A32B-FDAB-4186-A8D6-F18308F4F356.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">thrown out<\/a> in favor of their socialist rivals), the new focus on Islamic militants as suspects have made European Muslims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au%2Farticles%2F2004%2F03%2F14%2F1079199095445.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">brace<\/a> for a backlash not seen since 9\/11 here in the States.  \u201cWe  don\u2019t want it to be Al-Qaeda, just as the Basques don\u2019t want it to be ETA,\u201d said a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islam-online.net%2FEnglish%2FNews%2F2004-03%2F14%2Farticle02.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spanish Muslim<\/a> who refused to be identified. \u201cBut what difference does it make, knowing who it was? We\u2019re all affected.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that Madrid\u2019s Muslims were busy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Farticles%2F2004%2F03%2F14%2Ffor_families_grief_may_turn_to_fear_of_backlash%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">burying their own<\/a> last week along with the rest of Spain, some worry that old prejudices could resurface, and streets in Moroccan immigrant areas have been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com%2Fservlet%2FContentServer%3Fpagename%3DFT.com%2FStoryFT%2FFullStory%26c%3DStoryFT%26cid%3D1078381766962\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">empty<\/a> lately.  \u201cThe consequences for Arabs and Muslims will be as bad as what happened to them in the United States [after 9\/11],\u201d wrote Abdel-Rahman al-Rashed in the newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. \u201cThe millions of Spaniards who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoshop.org%2Finews%2Fstories.php%3Fstory%3D04%2F03%2F14%2F8391466\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">took to the streets<\/a> are a latent force of rage we would do well to take heed of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As blame for last week&#8217;s Madrid bombings shifts from Basque separatists to Al-Qaida, Muslims in Spain brace for a backlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Madrid bombing: Spanish Muslims brace for 3\/11 backlash<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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