[Paleo Conservative]

try telling that to all the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition....convert or die....or also try telling that to all the native peoples in North and South America who were forced/coerced to convert.

The Spanish Inquisition occurred just after the Spanish evicted the Muslims after 800 years of Muslim domination.

[BluStaCon]

Also, the Spanish Inquisition was a shining example of religion being used to further political motives. The Rulers of Spain were consolidating their newly regained country. This is why it remained the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition as whole was condemned by The Pope and found very little support anywhere else.

[ApplegateRanch]

The Spanish Inquisition occurred just after the Spanish evicted the Muslims after 800 years of Muslim domination.

After 800 years, you're bound to absorb some of the bad habits of your oppressors.

Too bad it never seems to work the other way. The bad apple always spoils the barrel; never does the barrel of good apples cure the bad.

HOWEVER, Christians worked through the aberration, though it took over two centuries for the major conflicts to subside.

Islam considers it normal, not an aberration, to use violence & intimidation.