Why the Moors Conquered Spain

I've been trying to find the time to finish my post on the brutal conquest of the new world by the Spaniards. All that I’ve read before leads me to believe that the Moors conquest of Spain was more about the women that they fell in love with than the land or the Gold. Conversely, the women of Spain seemed to take readily to the new men that showed up upon the new shores. The men were educated, and sophisticated, they wouldn’t let anyone push them around. Remember that they chopped up and boiled their enemies in cauldrons. Some of them were a little greedy and selfish though. Remember Mohammad I, he built the Palace of Madina Ashara, and stocked his Harem with 6,000 Spanish women?

I watched a story on TV one time, where they were interviewing a group of Muslim girls, and they were giggling about how great it would be to be one of Osama bin Laden’s wives. I was shocked, that any woman would want to be anywhere near that man. Then I realized that women have always been attracted to wealth and power. The Spanish women must have been attracted to the new conquerers of the old world, just as they are today.

I have always been curious about the reasons for conquest of new lands. It always seems to me that the conquest was as much about the women as it was about wealth. The conquerors always took home the women that they found, or took over the women of the new lands that they settled. The men were usually killed or vanquished. That’s kinda’ fair. To the victor go the spoils.
I know that everyone today thinks that the American Indian women were taken as wives against their will, but the stories that I heard as a young man said otherwise. I know that many women were taken as wives without their permission, but few ran away after they got used to living indoors and eating well. Many Indian women desired to marry the new settlers. As I’ve said before, I’m sure that that didn’t settle well with the Indian men, But life has been much the same throughout history.

I was searching the internet to find an example of a Spanish woman to drive my cousin “Oregon” crazy. Because he claims that it only takes one woman to drive him crazy. I figger the following video of a Spanish Girl singing Madonna’s “La Isla Bonita” Should do it. Her name is “Alizee”.

Turn your sound on, Turn it way up, and you bass way down low, Then try to imagine what the hell Mohammad I would want with more than one Spanish women!