Muslim Cartoon Rioting Affects Spanish Rituals
by Jerome Socolovsky
Morning Edition, February 15, 2006 ? After Muslim
rulers were expelled from Spain in the 13th century,
many small communities in the southeast region started
holding annual festivals to celebrate. Effigies of the
Prophet Muhammed were burned at these events. The
recent violent demonstrations over cartoons published
in a Danish newspaper have led these villages to
change their centuries-old traditions.
--NPR.org
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