Spain Continues Down Road to Dhimmitude

First, capitulating to terrorists by electing a soft-on-terrorism leftist government in the wake of the Madrid bombings; and now abolishing traditional customs for fear of offending Islamics:

Spanish Drop Exploding Mohammed From Festivities

Spanish villages are toning down traditional fiestas, in which dummies representing the Prophet Mohammed are blown up, for fear of offending Muslims.

One eastern Spanish village, Bocairent, decided to abandon the custom of packing the head of a dummy representing Mohammed with fireworks after seeing the angry Muslim response to a Danish newspaper's publication last year of cartoons of him.

Spanish newspaper El Pais also found that several other villages in the Valencia region had also held back on celebrations this year.

It carried out the investigation after a Berlin opera house decided last week to cancel performances of Mozart's "Idomeneo" because the production included a scene depicting Mohammed's severed head.

Bocairent's mayor, Antonio Valdes, said blowing up the Mohammed dummy was offensive.

"It just wasn't necessary, and as it could hurt some people's feelings, we decided not to do it," he said.

The village may not have blown up the wood-and-cardboard Mohammed dummy this year - but it still threw it off a castle wall at the fiesta's climax in February.

Villages all over Spain hold annual festivals to commemorate the "Reconquista'", the reconquest of Spain by Christians from the Moors, which was completed in 1492 after more than 700 years of Muslim rule in much of the country.

Spain is now once again home to a growing number of Muslims, mainly Moroccan immigrants, who villagers feel might be offended by some of their traditional celebrations.

My Comments:
Some "Reconquista" this is turning out to be. The Spanish may as well go ahead and cede Al Andalus back to the jihadists.


UPDATE
A somewhat tangentially related question: Do they still burn the Pope in effigy on Guy Fawkes Day in England?

His Excellency, General George Washington banned the burning of the Pope's effigy among the Continental troops during the American War for Independence (such was the custom, apparently, among the New Englanders who actively celebrated "Pope's Day" on 5 November). Not sure whether the General's ban was related to his unwillingness to offend our Catholic allies among the French and Spanish, or whether it was due to his own Catholic sympathies.