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To: Telepathic Intruder

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.


31 posted on 02/07/2015 12:04:45 PM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPxjpg)
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To: Dqban22

I suppose you’re correct then, and I should apologize. It seems there was a bit of a time differential between the Reconquista and the Inquisition. But as you indicate, the total number killed might only just match the number of people killed by Islamics every month.


32 posted on 02/07/2015 12:27:26 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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