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"After Franco's triumph in Spain's 1936-1939 civil war, many children were removed from families identified by the fascist regime as left-wing and given to families considered more deserving."
Eduardo Vela: 'Stolen babies' doctor escapes punishment in Spain
A victim of Eduardo Vela, 85, is to appeal after a Spanish court rules he cannot be convicted.
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"In the immediate aftermath of the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War won by Franco's Nationalists, babies were initially taken from left-wing Republican opponents of the regime to prevent them from passing on the Marxist "gene" to their children.
But from the 1950s onwards the scheme was expanded to include children born out of wedlock or into large or poor families. Trafficked infants would have been too young to realise their fate, with estimates suggesting there could be thousands of victims Jose Jordan AFP
Doctors played a key role, with women told their babies had died shortly after delivery but never given any proof. Then the newborns were passed on to couples unable to have children, many of them close to Franco's National Catholic regime.
The Catholic Church was often complicit in the scheme which aimed to ensure the children would be raised by affluent, conservative and devout Roman Catholic families."
Brian A. Catlos is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder:
"Islam has a very interesting approach to religious diversity, slightly different from how it usually works in Christianity. Traditional Christianity emphasises that there can only be one truth, the Christian truth, and whatever version there may be of that is the version established by those in power. On the other hand, Islam also believes there is one truth—in this case, revealed by Prophet Muhammad—but it also recognises that even if Jewish and Christian beliefs differ, they worship the same God, so their intentions must be essentially good. As a result, Jews and Christians had certain rights under Muslim rule during the medieval period. Now, this is not to say that they were equal citizens. But even though they were a subordinate group, they had rights that had to be respected to ensure their participation in society. This was the foundation of what some historians call convivencia, living together, which characterised much of the period under Islamic rule."
How Islamic Spain gave origin to the Modern West | Dust Magazine
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"Agriculture has been one of the central pillars of development of the world’s great civilisations and the agriculture of Al-Andalus made a key contribution to the advance of wellbeing in the western world.
Prior to the arrival of the Arabs in Spain, agriculture had been based on a trio of crops, namely cereals, olives and vines. When the Arabs settled in Spain, they greatly enriched local farming with the introduction of other cereals (rice, sorghum), other vegetables (aubergines, artichokes, spinach and cardoons), other fruit trees (almonds, fig trees, mulberries, date palms, and citrus fruits) and other textile plants (cotton, hemp). They also used aromatic, medicinal, and ornamental plants.
We should not forget that the increased variety of plant species was accompanied by the development of new methods of cultivation and the expansion of irrigation systems. The Arabs also perfected new methods for catching and storing subterranean and surface water and developed systems for terracing, draining and improving land."
"Occupation of the cities of Alexandria and Gundishapur put the Arabs into contact with original Greco-Latin manuscrips, which were assimilated and divulged by Islamic scientists in the middle-eastern caliphates of Damascus and Bagdad as well as the western caliphates of Al Andalus (Spain) and Kairwan (Tunis). This classical hippocratico-galenico medicine was refashioned into the so-called arabized galenism, which markedly influenced the Scholastics and the cultured world of the lower Middle Ages and became the basis of European medicine until well into the Renaissance period."
Neuroscience in Al Andalus and its influence on medieval scholastic medicine
INTRODUCTION Since the application of technical medicine by the Greeks, modern neurology has been based on a body of knowledge and cultural heritage from ancient times. In this paper we review the contribution made by Al Andalus to neuroscience during the Middle Ages and its repercussions on...
Before you ask, I'm not Islamic, I'm atheist. The reason I'm atheist is because, as opposed to most Catholics, I took the time to read the Bible and learn all I could about its beliefs. Then I decided to not be constricted by faith and dogmas, but freed by reason and facts.
And now I decide to no allow you to insult me anymore.
Nice ninja edit, by the way.
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