Islamic Jihadists Pledge to Reconquer Spain

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By Gianluca Mezzofiore
Posted 2014-07-03 01:15 GMT

Syria-based Jihadists have vowed to retake Spain - "the land of our ancestors" - in a video shot in Castilian Spanish that emerged on YouTube from a Syrian pro-government account.

In the footage, a young fighter introduces another "friend and brother" saying that "we're going to speak in Spanish". The second militant, wearing a kefiah scarf around his head, says:

"We are in the Holy Land [syria], the land of Islam and I tell and warn everyone: we are living under the Islamic flag and we will die for it until we open those locked lands from Jakarta to Andalusia. And I say: Spain is the land of our ancestors and we will open it with the power of Allah".

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It is unclear whether the two Spanish-speaking jihadists in the video belong to Isis. Experts say they speak Spanish with a heavy North African accent.

In June, eight people were arrested in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta on suspicion of recruiting jihadist fighters to go to Syria.

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The Iberian peninsula was invaded and conquered by Muslim forces in 711. The occupation culminated in the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordova in the tenth century. Muslim rule declined after that and ended in 1492 when Granada was conquered.The heartland of Muslim rule was Southern Spain or Andalusia.

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