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To: Sherman Logan
Spanish and Portugese persecution of Jews and Muslims?

Ferdinand and Isabella’s Inquisition?

16 posted on 12/12/2008 1:49:40 PM PST by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: Pontiac

Unfortunately, it started long before F and I, and lasted long after they were gone.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Marranos.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morisco

Dhimmis in Muslims lands were not exactly safe and protected, but they were first-class citizens by comparison to Jew, Muslims, converts from these religions to Catholicism, or their descendants in Iberia.


39 posted on 12/13/2008 5:21:13 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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