Congratulations for your article.
You can only expect things to become worse over here. Living in denial is currently the “Spanish way of life”, socially accepted and even fashionable.
The latest example I have is the following: in a recent opinion article published (http://www.abc.es/20070706/opinion-firmas/carta-contra-homofobia_200707061036.html) in the daily newspaper ABC (formerly, a right-wing, conservative publication; recently, it has shifted towards the center or center-left, which is also very explanatory of how things are going in Spain) a columnist called Tulio Demicheli described a despicable incident in which two young lesbians were brutally attacked at a shopping mall, while their attackers insulted them in ways I am not able to translate into English (I guess you can imagine). The attackers were young Moroccan Muslims but, instead on focusing on the social clashes arising from the presence of so many Muslim immigrants in Spain (remember France and their arson incidents), the columnist chose to remind readers that this attack could have been made by anyone, such as Catholics, Gipsies, Poles, Spaniards or Latin Americans. For this writer, the background of the attackers did not add any information to the event. Instead, he made his point on the defence of the teaching of multiculturalism in schools, through a new compulsory course called “Education for Citizenship”, where progressist and politically correct values are taught to children as young as 12.
This is the kind of opinion-makers we currently have in Spain: supporters of appeassement, blind to the facts of events, and always willing to blame the right-wing politicians and citizens for all what is evil or wrong, no matter who the real offender is.
