[Telepathic Intruder]

"The Inquisition had nothing to do with Muslim incursions."

The Inquisition was a backlash against the Muslim invasion of Spain. The Spanish had to reconquer their own country from the Moors. It may have gone a little to far by Christian standards, but it was mild compared to the Muslim persecution of Christians in Spain.

[gettinolder]

"The Inquisition was a backlash against the Muslim invasion of Spain."

I disagree with you and can find nothing supporting your statement.

Can you tell me where you formed your opinion regarding the inquisition?

I was taught the inquisition (Spanish) was conducted by the Roman Church and targeted "heretics", namely those who refused to believe their salvation was regulated by strict adherence to the Roman Church of the time.

My own research and reading including Foxe's Book of Christian Martyrs clearly say nothing regarding muslims of the time.

I am not defending anything muslim I can't stand it that our media and POS obama refuse to call a spade a spade and acknowledge the barbarity and cruelty of islam, but again, I don't believe the inquisition had anything to do with Islam.

[Dqban22]

Muslims and Jews were not judged by the tribunal of the Inquisition, they only dealt with Catholics and those already converted to the Catholic faith.

The British Jewish historian Henry Kamen, a well respected scholar of the Spanish Inquisition, has calculated a total of some 2,000 victims along its four centuries of existence. Kamen adds that “it is interesting to compare the statistics on sentences to death of civilians and inquisitorial tribunals between the 15th and 18th centuries in Europe: for every one hundred death sentences handed down by courts, the Inquisition (Catholic) issued ONE”.

Another historian, Ricardo García Cárcel, estimated that the total number of processed by the Inquisition throughout its history was about 150,000. By applying the percentage of executed appears in the causes of 1560-1700, nearly 2% - can be said that in the worst cases the number of executed persons probably approached three thousand (3,000).

According to American Professor Philip Wayne Powell, were executed just over 100 people in the 250 years in which it was acting the Inquisition in the Spanish America.

In Germany and France, the wars of religion lasted more than one century with a balance of hundreds of thousands of deaths. The Spanish Inquisition, together with the religious reform sponsored by the Catholic Kings, avoided the fratricidal wars are extended to Spain between Christians who leak so much blood in the rest of Europe.