August 2, 2023

It seems that the sexually lurid fantasies of Tarek bin Zayid, a renowned jihadist who spearheaded the conquest of Spain in the eighth century, have finally been fulfilled.

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When Tarek and thousands of other North African Muslim marauders first landed on the southernmost tip of Spain in A.D. 711, Tarek sought to further entice the men, who were already lusting after booty and plunder, by citing the women of Spain, who were supposedly waiting to welcome the Muslims with open arms.  They “are awaiting your arrival,” Tarek insisted, “reclining on soft couches in the sumptuous palaces of crowned lords and princes.” 

These European women were, moreover, “as beautiful as houris,” said the jihadist leader.  (In Islam, houris are supernatural sex slaves — “big-bosomed” and “wide-eyed,” says the Koran [56:22, 78:33]) — created for the express purpose of pleasuring Allah’s favorites in perpetuity.)

Of course, the only things to greet the Muslim invaders were Christian swords.  Eventually, however, the Muslims conquered Spain, and women “as beautiful as houris” they got — but only by force, enslavement, and rape.

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After subjugating and utterly plundering Spain of its wealth, in 715, Tarek and his overlord, Musa, traveled to Damascus and offered vast treasures in tribute — including 30,000 Spanish slaves — to Umayyad caliph Al-Walid.  He, according to al-Maqqari the historian, was utterly delighted by “the resources of all the people of Spain … its riches and the beauty of its young girls.”

Thereafter, and because the “Umayyads particularly valued blond or red-haired Franc or Galician women as sexual slaves,” writes historian Dario Fernandez-Morera, “al-Andalus [Muslim-controlled Spain] became a center for the trade and distribution of slaves [The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, p. 159].”  Christian subjects were sometimes even required to make an annual tribute “not of money, or horses, or arms, but of a hundred damsels (all to be distinguished for beauty) to ornament the harems [Spain and Portugal, Mercer, p. 132].”

In all cases, however, Spain’s women, far from being found “reclining on soft couches,” as Tarek had said, “awaiting” with open arms the North African invaders, were actually taken by force and enslavement — dragged by their hair screaming.

Today, however, it would seem that Tarek’s prophecy was not false, but rather premature — finding fulfillment only now.

According to a July 11, 2023 Spanish language report,

The almost 500,000 illegal migrants who are waiting in Libya for their onward journey to Europe are already arriving in droves at the holiday beaches of the Mediterranean. Videos from Italy and now Spain show dinghies reaching the beach and migrants running to the mainland, cheering.