Spain, Reconquest by the Muslims! By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
Steven Tucker's article "Rubbing Wounds into Salt: Spain's Modern-Day, Taxpayer-Funded Reconquest by the Muslims," shows the Great Replacement is working away at Spain as well:
https://counter-currents.com/2025/03/rubbing-wounds-into-salt-spains-modern-day-taxpayer-funded-reconquest-by-the-muslims.
Steven Tucker's article kicks off with a historical hook: the "Salt Riots" of 1631-1634 in Biscay, a footnote in Spain's past over salt taxes. But today, he argues, the term has a fresh, fiery meaning tied to violent clashes in mid-March 2025 in Salt, a small town near Girona, Catalonia. The spark? The eviction of Kalilu Diwara, a Black African Muslim imam, from a home he'd been squatting in for five years without paying rent. On March 7, he was booted out; by March 10, he tried to break back in, got arrested, and chaos erupted.
What followed was a mob of about 200—Muslim migrants and Spanish Leftists—storming Salt's police station, hurling stones and eggs. Riots flared for two nights, with police attacked and property torched. Tucker paints this as a "religious-racial" mess, spotlighting the local council's response: the Leftist ERC (Catalan separatist party) quickly gave Diwara taxpayer-funded housing, despite his ineligibility, to dodge "fuelling the far-right" VOX party. Tucker sees this as caving to rioters, rewarding lawlessness while slapping law-abiding locals in the face.
The article then zooms out, framing Salt as a microcosm of a bigger crisis. Tucker argues Catalonia's Leftist and separatist leaders have encouraged mass immigration—especially from Muslim countries—to destabilise Spain and boost their independence agenda. He cites stats: 38 percent of Salt's 34,000 residents are immigrants, 75.7 percent of births are to foreign parents, and the town hosts 77 nationalities. This, he claims, strains housing and fuels tensions, not just because of "greedy landlords" (as the Left argues) but due to unchecked demographic shifts.
Tucker digs into the politics: the far-Left Sindicat de L'Habitage allegedly orchestrated the riots under an "anti-racist" banner to attack property rights, while ERC and CUP (another separatist party) cheered it on. CUP's Laure Vega even praised the stone-throwers in parliament, earning a police union's ire and a call for a 12,000-euro fine. Tucker sees this as a cynical ploy—import foreigners, teach them Catalan over Spanish, and secure votes for independence, even if it means cultural upheaval.
He ties it all to history, dubbing it a "Reverse-Reconquista"—a nod to the 711-1492 Moorish rule of Spain (Al-Andalus). Back then, non-Muslims were second-class "dhimmis"; now, he suggests, native Spaniards feel like second-class citizens in their own towns. Salt's riots spread to places like Mataró, which he calls "Third World settlements" with no-go zones. VOX's Alberto Tarradas gets a shoutout, lamenting lost identity—Muslim festivals replacing Spanish ones, streets buzzing with Arabic and Urdu.
The article peaks with a wild anecdote: in 2014, Catalan separatists allegedly offered Muslims a mega-mosque in Barcelona's old bullring, funded by Qatar, to sway an independence vote. It never happened, but Tucker uses it to argue separatists are selling out their heritage for short-term gain, risking a "neo-Caliphate." He quotes a Salafist preacher, Abdelwahab Houzi, plotting to exploit this for Islamic rule, while criticising feminist official Tània Verge for fining VOX's Silvia Orriols 10,000 euros for warning about Sharia's spread—ironic, given Verge's topless-protest campaigns.
Tucker wraps up with a dire warning: Catalonia's policies are brewing a powder keg, with Salt as the "tip of the iceberg." He sees a Spain where native identity is eroding, replaced by a multicultural mess driven by Leftist fantasy and separatist miscalculation, all while Muslims eye a historical comeback. Like most of Western Europe in fact.
"Spain is following trends seen across the Western world, which involve young rudderless people increasingly shunned from the job market, especially if they are natives, and jobs increasingly going to foreigners.
The data from Spain shows the extreme trend line, where of all the jobs created between 2019 to 2024, 71.4 percent of them went to foreigners, according to a study by the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies (Fedea).
"We are importing waiters and bricklayers while exporting doctors and engineers, which is a tragedy because we have spent a fortune training them, and they represent the great talent on which the country's growth and the concentration of high-value-added companies depend," said Jesús Vega, former Director of Human Resources at Inditex and Banco Santander, in an interview with El Debate.
He argued that Spain's labor policies "are driving away those salaries that truly contribute to the country."
Now, foreigners account for 20.7 percent of all workers in the country, with these workers flowing into the construction, hospitality, and elementary occupations, along with technical positions, although to a lesser extent. These are generally considered low-skill positions, which the experts behind the study said is tied to the fact that foreigners coming into Spain generally have lower education levels than Spanish natives.
During that time period, the study notes that there has been an increase of nearly 2 million workers and a decrease in unemployment of 438,000 people. However, nearly all of those jobs went to people over the age of 50, amounting to 74.7 percent. Meanwhile, 634,000 jobs were lost over five years for those in the 30 to 44 age group.
Within the age group of 45-49, there has been only a 70,000 increase in jobs.
Spain, which has already struggled for decades with youth unemployment, is only getting worse in this regard. Now, the number of workers over 50 rose by five points, to 35 percent in the last five years.
What the experts behind the study argue is that while foreigners are increasingly taking jobs, along with older workers, young workers are increasingly dropping out of the labor force. Some of these young workers may also simply be moving away from Spain entirely, which the data appears to support.
Migration outflow data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INE) shows that in the first half of 2022, 220,443 people left the country, the highest figure since 2013. That year was at a high point of the country's financial crisis, which saw unemployment at 25 percent. The data also shows that the age group that left in 2022 at the highest rate was the 25 to 39 group.
These same trends are being seen across the West, with low-skilled migrants flooding countries and driving down wages. In many cases, this influx of foreigners also leads to soaring housing prices, which in turn leaves native-born young people unable to purchase a home. In countries like the U.S., and Canada, the trend has been especially extreme, with millions of jobs flowing to foreigners at the expense of native-born Americans. Corporations have also actively discriminated against White males through DEI programs, exacerbating the trend.
Big Business has traditionally seen mass immigration as a positive, as it drives down wages, creates competition for jobs, and also lowers the chances of labor unions forming due to differences between culture, religion and ethnicity amongst workers."
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