http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/635092.stm

Riot police in Spain have again clashed with hundreds of protesters on the third consecutive day of violence directed against immigrants from North Africa.
The local immigrant community has asked the authorities for protection after rioting left their property ransacked and their cars overturned.

Clouds of smoke wafted over the south-eastern Spanish region of Almeria as a plastic recycling factory, set alight by anti-immigrant protestors, burnt to the ground.


Shops and cars went up in flames

There were clashes in and around the Moroccan quarter of El Ejido as riot police tried to clear roads blocked by the demonstrators.
Spanish state radio reported that more than 30 people were injured and seven others arrested as police prevented protesters marching on El Ejido.

Stabbings

The violence erupted on Saturday when a Moroccan man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing to death a Spanish woman in a local market.

The death came two weeks after another Moroccan man was arrested in connection with the stabbing to death of two people.

In response, hundreds of Spaniards marched through the town shouting racist slogans. Police reinforcements were called in after protesters went on the rampage, burning cars and shops belonging to Moroccans.

The Spanish Foreign Minister, Abel Matutes, appealed for calm, saying that Spaniards must get used to the influx of North African immigrants attracted by the fast-growing economy.

He told state radio: "We need to reflect on how we need to change our behaviour in a pluralist society that with each day will ... have more immigrants, that each day will need more immigrants to take our country forward."

The Moroccan ambassador to Madrid, Yamal Eddin Mechbal, called on his countrymen "to behave like civilised people, containing your rage and ire" in response to the attacks, the Spanish news agency Europa Press reported.

El Ejido is the centre for fruit and vegetable production on Spain's southern coast - an industry that relies heavily on cheap immigrant labour.

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this stretches back hundreds of years, and it is really unfortunate to see it flaring up again

Well, it hasn't flared up in the last seven years.

This news article is dated Feb 2000.

Well done for posting into the `Latest news` section.

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My bad I didnt look at the date, i just saw the article read it and posted.

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Replace the word "posted" with the words "believed it" and you have summed up the way you formed your ideology.

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I take this topic very seriously and am absolutely rabid how the Europeans have let my motherland become invaded. It's absolutely despicable and a disgrace that after all the Spaniards had done and accomplished, they are burdened with their once-conquered indian people immigrating to their capital land to start trouble, thumb their noses and think they could possibly compare with the historical greatness that is the Spanish people. Also, I hate it when people in the news call these throwbacks 'Spanish'. They're not. There is only one people that are the Spanish and that's the people of Spain. These people are nothing but the backward, Spanish speaking, indian descendants of the Spanish Colonial days. That man who lost his g/f, I feel his pain and anger. I really do. I would have done the same thing. Those bastards, treking on HIS land. Those miserable rotten bastards. Disgraceful.

Uh... Justinian... In what way are Morroccans Indian? Morrocco is in North Africa.
Granted, I've seen enough of this kind of race-warrior fear-baiting sensationalism spattered around the site to not even bother responding (I guess ithelps the race-warriors feel "righteous" to read this stuff)... but are you really paying attention?

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Sorry Java. You're absolutely right. I don't know why I thought this scum was from South/central. Must've been tired when I wrote it. Still, it is part of the same problem and my feelings still stand.