Islamic group to build mosque adjacent to ground zero

[Andres]

Qurtuba or Cordóba, as far as I'm concerned, was generally a place of relative tolerance and prosperity where multiple faiths lived together, in relative peace, most of the time.

Until the Reconquista that is. When the city was captured in 1236, the resident Moors where chased away by... the Catholics.

What's wrong with the name Cordoba, is beyond my understanding

Btw, Frags, it wasn't Cordoba that fell in 1492, but Granada. The resident Muslims and Jews were, ehm, firmly encouraged to convert to Catholicism by the friendly neighbourhood catholic conquerors of that time.

But let the fact that Cordoba was a tolerant place, by the standards of that time of course, under Muslim rule, not get in the way of your outrage about the choice of the name Cordoba. Carry on.