You missed the point that the charge was not that they were Jewish but that they were in a treasonous conspiracy to subvert the Catholic state. The Spanish Inquisition was an instrument of the Spanish state, not the Catholic Church. I am not saying that this was a just action but this is quite different from the false charged that Jews were targeted for execution because they were Jews.
If they were not jews, but were indeed catholics, they would not have been burned at the stake. I repeat, "As a Jewish child are you no longer offended if your parents were burned at the stake because they turned out to be secret Jews?" Would you not be a bit offended? This is the point of the thread is it not? Ultra Orthodox that know the Catholic history better that Catholics obviously offended by the burning at the stake thingie and responding by spitting. I just thought a little understanding of their viewpoint to stop another inquistion was worth a try, but as the fires of catholic offense grow, it is I who am learning on this thread.
You are incorrect. The Inquisition was an instrument of the Church itself. In fact, its direct descendant, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, survives today as an office office within the Church, and was until 2005 headed by the future Pope Benedict XVI. The Inquisition's tribunals were entirely ecclesiastical, were conducted by priests, and under canon law.
It would be more accurate to say "the Inquisition targeted Jews who had been forced or coerced to have insincere conversions to Christianity on pain of death, exile, and/or abject poverty; it employed torture, and often handed over those Jews to secular authorities for execution."