What period of the Catholic Church was referenced in this article, The Spanish Inquisition”?
Even then you had the Catholic Church outside of Spain.
You can’t compare any Christian church to anything Islamic, because Islam is a political system and Christianity is not.
This is even reflected in the Inquisition, which initially started off simply as an attempt to rebuild orthodox faith after centuries in which the absence of bishops in Spain because of the Islamic invasions had allowed error and confusion to creep into people’s beliefs. It was after the secular powers suddenly realized the potential of this and encouraged a few inquisitors, who had been appointed to be independent and thus fair but also therefore were uncontrollable by Rome, to carry out their wishes and attack the enemies of the king that things got really bad. It’s bad when any religion works in cooperation with a secular power or thinks it is a secular power: look at Calvin’s bloody Geneva, which was a little police state full of torture and executions.
But because of the dynamic of Christianity, it is simply impossible for such aberrations to last very long. Jesus distinguished the secular power and the religious power and Christianity is bound by this.
Islam, on the other hand, cannot exist without being the secular power as well. Its goal is the imposition of sharia and complete control - political, economic and religious - over any society with which it comes in contact, and there is simply no way around this.
Do the research and do not buy into the Black Legend. The Inquisition courts were the fairest and most humane in all of Christendom at that time. The numbers turned over to the secular authorities to be put to death were no where near what the public schools and other commies would have you believe.