Robert Spencer looks at the Spanish election through the lens of Bat Ye’or’s “Eurabia” concept: Spain capitulates to Eurabia.

Ironically, incoming Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero declared: “We’re aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our alliance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil.” Yet Zapatero and his new government, not the existing order, represent the Europe that has been giving up her life for oil for 30 years now. After all, according to United Press International, it was Spain’s European Union colleague, France, that accepted bribes from the Iraqi oil ministry in exchange for opposition to the American invasion of Iraq.

Zapatero is trying to convince the world to see his election not for what it is – the biggest radical Muslim victory since 9-11, or even the Khomeini revolution in Iran – but simply as a referendum on Iraq. He has castigated Bush and Blair for their “lies.” However, in the caves and highlands of Afghanistan, the al-Qaida leadership is not interested in the niceties of legality, disclosure and intelligence that are currently swirling in the West around the Iraq invasion. They see the war in Iraq as a jihad – indeed, as one segment of a global jihad – and they will not see Spain’s withdrawal from Iraq as anything but a victory for jihad and confirmation that terror works.