When people talk about the Spanish Inquisition they ALWAYS forget that Spain had been occupied for over SEVEN HUNDRED years by Muslims prior to the inquisition!
The inquisition was a response to over 700 hundred years of muslim occupation. And they thus had learned from the best butchers on the planet.
It’s kind of like they got conditioned to look at any dissenter as though he were a murderous Muslim?
And a lot of medieval Spanish cruelties do look like they were rub-offs from the ruthless Muslims. They were in a bind... they hated what they loved.