re: "(Video) Muslims Demand to use Catholic church in Cordoba as a Mosque"

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs highlights one aspect of the salami-slicing strategy.

Money quote(s):

"The Muslims want Cordoba back. You knew that was coming. Based on that, the Christians should get the Hagia Sophia back, the Jews should get the Dome of the Rock back, and the Hindus should get back the tens of thousands of temples that were destroyed and turned into mosques. And that's just for starters.

Their premise of co-existence is a slap in the face. There is no peaceful co-existence in Muslim countries under Islamic law. Ethnic cleansing and the suppression and persecution of non-Muslims is commanded in the sharia. But they will use our freedoms to kill our freedoms."

This is an aspect of "what's mine is mine; what's yours is negotiable" diplomacy.

Old heads will recognize this from Soviet times; new heads are constantly astonished to learn that Putin's Russians still do this.

For many Americans, world history begins in 1776. Or 1624 (or 1607). Or 1492.

1492 was also the year that the Spanish completed (in January) the Reconquista, finally taking back the last of Spanish territory (Granada) that remained a Moorish possession. Of course, if you're of a "Moorish" disposition, you view that from a somewhat different perspective.