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To: stockpirate

The Inquisition was started to clear out Islam from the Iberian Peninsula, and then went overzealous. So not so much.


6 posted on 04/02/2015 5:31:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

One thing I wonder, was the Spanish campaign against the Jews entirely unfounded? As it was carried out, the Spanish did do evil against the Jews.

But, were there a substantial number of Jews who preferred the Moorish rule? Was there reason to see Jews as collaborators with the Moors?

The campaign compares in some ways to the internment of the Japanese-Americans during WW2. We look back and say that it was unjustified - there were some who sided with Japan but nearly all were loyal Americans.

The American episode hadn’t the weight of centuries - decades of Japanese presence in this country, and a few years of Japanese aggression, and only a few months since Pearl Harbor.


10 posted on 04/02/2015 5:51:21 AM PDT by heartwood
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