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#don’t mind me but this is a TikTok comment on something about al Andalus and just wtf
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‘Don’t say colonised, we annexed their land into our state’
Dude…
#don’t mind me but this is a TikTok comment on something about al Andalus and just wtf
#seriously wtf I’m not angry or anything just baffled by their logic because the Iberian peninsula was pretty much colonised lol
#the arabs/amazigh came in and killed pagans and then forced christians and Jews aka the natives to pay humiliating taxes
#aka the jizya simply so that they wouldn’t be killed for existing as non-Muslims as they’d done to the pagans
#+ they also had to pay higher taxes on their land than Muslims and they were forbidden from occupying positions of more importance
#+ they enslaved Christian women 24/7
#literally there’s a tower in the Alhambra named ‘of the captive’ because that’s where a famous Christian-slave-turned-sultan’s-wife was kept
#(and btw she wasn’t happy because the moment her husband died she changed her name back to her original one and went back to being a
#Christian in Castile)
#also about al andalus let’s not forget that Jews were literally forbidden to wear any colour but yellow
#so that they could be easily identified like a certain moustached guy once did
#AND THE ALMOHADS GENOCIDED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS LOOK IT UP
#anyways
#the Spanish empire the Spanish Inquisition etc weren’t good
#ik that
#but it’s not difficult to acknowledge that atrocities can happen both ways and that a past colonial power was bad even though the new
#colonial power is also bad and perhaps even worse
#like if I ever go to Mexico I’m not going to go around telling people they should be happy we colonised the
#because the aztecs were also a supreme piece of shit
#history is complex idk why people are so patriotic over medieval empires lol
#might delete later lol
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