Priest Demands ‘Reconquista’ of Morocco

A Roman Catholic priest in Pamplona, Spain, went viral after calling for a “reconquista” of Morocco. The comments came after tens of thousands of illegal immigrants rushed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the North African coast.

• Spanish news reports said Javier Aizpún asked Our Lady of Africa, the patron saint of Ceuta, to help launch a reconquest of Morocco and convert it back to Catholicism.
• He also said all “Arab colonizers” should be forced out of the part of Morocco once called Mauretania Tingitana so that Spain could reclaim what he described as original Roman Hispania.

Archbishop Luis Argüello, president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, has also sharply criticized the recent influx. He called the events in Ceuta an “invasion” and said, “demography is a weapon.”

• Catholic opposition to Muslim immigration exists mainly among lay Catholics. Spain’s main nationalist party, Vox, campaigns heavily against “Islamization” and calls for deportations, and about 75 percent of its voters identify as Catholic.

Catholicism was well established in northern Morocco by the fifth century. Islamic forces under Uqba ibn Nafi reached the region around A.D. 681. In 711, they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar under Tariq ibn Ziyad and conquered much of Spain. Charles Martel halted their advance into France at the Battle of Tours in 732.

• In Spain, Catholic kingdoms slowly reconquered the peninsula, finishing the process in 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella captured Granada.

This is the history Aizpún is referring to when he says, “Let us finish what Queen Isabella the Catholic left undone.” Morocco has remained predominantly Islamic since the seventh century, with Islam enshrined as Morocco’s state religion in its constitution. Aizpún wants Catholics to push into Morocco and right what he sees as a wrong from 1345 years ago.

Bible prophecy states that a future European power will gain control over parts of North Africa.

• Daniel 11 describes a coming clash between a European “king of the north” and an Islamic “king of the south.”
• Verse 43 says the king of the north “shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.” The Hebrew word for “Libyans” refers to Berber-speaking peoples who today live across Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.

Immigrants from the Maghreb are destabilizing Europe, and voices such as Aizpún’s are calling for a decisive European response—a decisive Catholic European response.

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