Spanish Mayor Wants to Change Ancient City Crest that Depicts Conflict With Muslims

by Source: DiarioDelSur
Islam versus Europe
November 29, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/3599/spanish-mayor-wants-to-change-ancient-city-crest

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New controversy in Vélez-Málaga, this time related to its corporate image. The PP government team in the mayoral office does not want the official documents processed in the office to continue featuring an Arab pierced by a spear in the breast, as depicted in the the city's historical crest, which was granted by the queen Isabel the Catholic in 1499. "I feel very proud of this crest and in fact it will go on being used in formal deeds, but today Vélez ought to give an image of modernity, of an open municipality which has nothing against any race or religion", the mayor, Francisco Delgado, explained yesterday, justifying his government's initiative of spending 37,000 euros in carrying out a study into creating a new corporate image for the town council.

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