"Christopher Columbus was the first ZIONIST "

Someone leaked a batch of emails that have been exchanged by leaders of the Occupy Wall Street group. I’ve only dipped into them briefly, but some are pretty entertaining. This thread reminded me of my days as a leftist, and the difficulty of accommodating the diverse and sometimes inconsistent varieties of left-wing crackpotism.

Christopher Columbus was the first ZIONIST ===don’t you guys get it? The same colonial narrative–genocide. We must endorse the Declaration of First Nation Peoples, in solidarity, for the plight of all people of color. Cesar and Bahareh, i agree–this is most urgent.

This exchange strikes me as revealing on several levels, but I will close with just two observations: 1) It is a reminder of the sheer volume of ignorant BS that leftists can generate. 2) The only common denominator that binds together these miscellaneous cranks with their various obsessions is their visceral hatred of the United States.

No, it means you don’t even know what the Inquisition was.

The Inquisition was an ecclesiastical court, aimed SOLELY at people who PROFESSED to be Catholic, to oppose heresy (proclaiming as Catholic doctrine that which is opposed to Catholic doctrine), not apostasy (departing from the Catholic church), and not non-Christian religions. The Muslims believed in ‘taqqiya,’ the doctrine that, when under “oppression,” it is moral for Muslims to profess infidel faiths to allow them to undermine that faith. NO-ONE WHO OPENLY PROFESSED TO BE MUSLIM OR JEWISH WAS EVER PROSECUTED UNDER THE INQUISITION.

The great tragedy of the inquisition, however, was that there was a large general populace who was scared s**tless that the Muslims would return to power and that the black death had been punishment by God for accepting infidel faith, so the when Jews were identified as being Jews and not subject to the inquisition, they were unfortunately exposed to mob rule. Some even blamed the great death as a Jewish conspiracy. So the vigilante acts of the mob have been historically conflated with the inquisition. Worse still, the Spanish, fearful of the mobs, decided that the Jews would be safer elsewhere, and shamefully banished them into exile.

MUSLIMS, on the other hand, HELD MANY POSITIONS OF HIGH REGARD IN SPANISH SOCIETY. In fact, they became so numerous in later years, that certain posts (courts, etc.) were eventually denied for fear that Spain was becoming Muslim-dominated again.

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