Saturday 30 April 2016

Descendants of the Moors of Spain are demanding the recognition of their rights



RABAT (Ina) - called "Andalusians memory" Foundation, which defends the rights of thedescendants of the Moors, or Muslims who were expelled from Andalusia in the fifteenth century, the Spanish authorities to recognize the "historic Moriskyh rights." It 
also demanded the organization, in a statement issued in the conclusion of a scientific seminar organized in Rabat on "Moriskyh issue in the light of the Spanish legislation and thehuman rights system," the adoption of equality between the descendants of the Moors and the descendants of Jews Ambassaradim in the Spanish civil law. It is 
noteworthy that Spain issued in February 2014 a law allowing for the descendants of theJews who were expelled from Andalusia to obtain Spanish nationality , while banishing thedescendants of Muslims who live mostly in Morocco. It 
also called Foundation "memory of Andalusia" Spain to adopt on April 7 of each year anational day of memory of the Moors, and recommended the establishment of complex documentation and studies on Andalus memory and the Diaspora Moorish to highlight theMoorish cultural heritage in Spain and countries Mediterranean. 
I knew seminar participation of legal experts, professors , researchers from Morocco, Spain, Portugal and Egypt, who have made ​​scientific presentations on the legal aspects ofhistorical and cultural elements and Alhoiatih issue Moriskyh. 
recall that after the fall of Granada Last kingdoms of the Arabs in Andalusia (Spain) current (711-1492m) , was expelled adherents of Islam and Judaism from Spain and Portugal, which have lived on the land for nearly eight centuries, the Inquisition and forced those who remained to convert to Catholicism or leave the country.

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