[eyespysomething]

And they were second class citizens, more than welcome to renounce their faith and become Moslems to attain first class citizen status.

[B Knotts]

And they were second class citizens

...and still are. Even the Vatican is starting to point this out.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

And they were second class citizens, more than welcome to renounce their faith and become Moslems to attain first class citizen status.

Yes, but it was still a step up from being forced to convert, leave, or die in Spain and many other European in countries at that time.

In fact, one of the significant Jewish returns to the Holy Land was shortly after 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella kicked the Jews out of Spain and the Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II took as many in as he could get, allowing some to settle in what is now Israel.