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To: moneyrunner
What trash to put out so early in the morning. Christoper Columbus sailed the Ocean blue during the Inquisition in Spain. So this would mean that the story of muslins on the Santa Maria has to be false. How could such a crew of the time ALLOW any other religion on that voyage? Don't make up history. It is what it is.
2 posted on 10/18/2011 4:25:43 AM PDT by cameraeye (A happy kuffir!)
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To: cameraeye

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.


3 posted on 10/18/2011 5:03:02 AM PDT by dangus
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