They Shall Have War

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Someone broke into the tomb of a Spanish police officer killed in the recent raid on Islamic terrorists, dragged his body out, and set it on fire: Madrid policeman’s body burned. (Hat tip: Niall.)

Hmm. This doesn’t look like the work of Buddhists.

MADRID, Spain (CNN) — The body of a Spanish police officer who was killed in a raid on suspected Islamic terrorists was removed from its tomb Sunday night, dragged across a cemetery, doused with gasoline and burned, a Spanish police official told CNN.

Police do not know who committed the crime, and an investigation is under way.

Francisco Javier Torronteras, a special operations police officer, died April 3 during a police raid in a Madrid suburb where police believed suspects behind the March 11 Madrid train bombings were hiding.

The suspected terrorists set off a bomb during the raid and seven of them died, of whom four have been identified.

Police said the suspected ringleaders of the train bombings were among those killed.

Torronteras was not buried underground, but in an above-ground tomb at Madrid’s Southern Cemetery.

Assailants Sunday night used a long pole to pry the tomb open, dragged the body about 200 meters, covered it with gasoline and set it on fire.

And in Cordoba, Muslims are lobbying the Catholic Church to let them pray in the city’s Renaissance-era cathedral—and symbolically reclaim the site of a mosque built after the Islamic conquest of Spain in the 8th century: Muslims want to pray in Catholic cathedral. (Hat tip: egp.)

Cordoba’s Renaissance-era cathedral sits in the centre of a 10th century mosque complex, and local Muslims want to be allowed to pray there again. They have appealed to the Vatican to intercede on their behalf.

Zakarias Maza, director of a mosque in neighbouring Granada, said: “We hope the Vatican will give a signal that it has a vision of openness and dialogue.

”Cordoba has been a symbol of the union of three cultures for centuries. Even now, Jews and Muslims live together with Christians in the neighbourhood around the mosque.“

The number of Muslims in the south of Spain is growing as a result of immigration from north Africa and Spaniards converting. Cordoba has about 500 Muslims, too many for the present mosque.

A spokesman for the local bishop said that the proposal faced many obstacles and it would be many years before it came to anything. The proposals have also provoked anger from some Catholics. ”Will Christians be able to pray in the mosques of Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Iran or Kuwait?” demanded one contributor to a Catholic website.

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