First Islamic Party in Spain Will Follow Local Elections 2011

For the first time the Islamic Party in Spain to prepare themselves to participate in local elections in Spain in 2011, these Islamist parties aim to achieve representation for Muslims in the administration of the municipality, Spanish media said earlier this week.

Unity Party and the Spanish Renaissance (Renaissance and the Union Party of Spain), promoted by Barrach Mustafa, a former journalist and professor of Arabic in Granada, near the area of Rabat, Spanish newspapers said ANSAmed.

Barrach asserted that he was a moderate and asserted that he supports the Constitution and the Spanish national.

"This is the birth of Return and the renaissance and the unity of the party is the party not only for Muslims but also to ethnic minorities and immigrants, the moment has come, for Muslim Spain, Arabic, African immigrants and non-immigrants to free themselves from the humiliation," he said.

Members of the Muslim community who call themselves Al-Hegira and treasurer of the Islamic Council of Spain, and Mustafa Barrach not only aspire to collect nearly 1,300,000 votes of the Muslims in Spain but also from immigrants who represent 10% of the population of Spain.

300,000 Moriscos - another name for Muslim Spain - lived in the Iberian peninsula after the expulsion of the Catholic kings and forced to go back to Christianity in the year 1609. In Spain the internal sheet, clearly outlines that the national consolidation is not just for people in one area or regional autonomy, and the sheet also stated that Islam is the basis of political behavior and the factors that determine the moral and ethical society regenarasi from Spain .

In October 2006, Parliament of Andalusia has asked the three parliamentary groups that form the parliamentary majority to support an amendment that would ease the way for the descendants of Moorish Spain to obtain citizenship.

Islam is the second largest religion in Spain, accounting for approximately 2.3% of the total population.

According to the conservative newspaper ABC, the government will not hide these concerns, because there are currently 1,300,000 people of the country's Muslims, including converts and immigrants from Spanish Islamic countries, amounting to about 700,000 from Morocco. But it could be more than that - perhaps more than two million, if the illegal immigrants are also counted. (Fq / wb)