Word: mezquitaã
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Apart from its thinly veiled disdain for the Mezquita??€™s creators, what makes the pamphlet even more of a curiosity is the incongruity between its overtly religious slant and current Spanish attitudes...
...while it is understandable that the Catholic Church should desire to push back the rising tide of secularism in Spain, providing vaguely bigoted information to the Mezquita??€™s visitors is an inappropriate way to make such a stand. The Mezquita is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, and its stewards would do well to acknowledge and celebrate all aspects of that heritage. Anything short of that does a terrible disservice to this outstanding example of cultural fusion...
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