<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hmm...interesting comment...Salgadellos has recently put out a new effigy of Santiago called SANTIAGO MATARATAS...a store keeper in GZ (Galiza) told me they wanted to be "politicamente correctos!"<BR>
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Xosé Manuel<BR>
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In a message dated 2/25/2003 4:45:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, DFooteaD115.ORG writes:<BR>
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Last summer I was struck by the number of statues of Santiago as the<BR>
Moor killer (Santiago Matamoros). I wondered how Muslims in Spain felt<BR>
about these depictions of Santiago. It seems to me that the idea of St.<BR>
James as the Moor killer is out of date..<BR>
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