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To: LibWhacker
The Inquisition did not punish murderers for "knifing innocent men, women and children in their beds". It burned people at the stake for being Muslim. That's all.

When praying towards Mecca on a Friday -- in and of itself -- kills someone, then we can talk. Until then, the killing people whose religious faith does not meet the state's standard remains what it always has been: murder.

27 posted on 02/08/2006 9:57:20 PM PST by zimdog
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To: zimdog
The Inquisition did not punish murderers for "knifing innocent men, women and children in their beds". It burned people at the stake for being Muslim.

There's a difference?

C'mon... Don't be silly, praying towards Mecca doesn't kill people. It's all the other murderous activities (like chopping heads, raping babies and throwing them into boiling water) which the typical muj loves to do and teaches his demonic spawn to worship, that kill people. They've been at it for 1,400 years. But now they've run into the big boys, and it's going to stop.

BTW, the Jews were an afterthought; if it hadn't been for the beastly behavior of the ordinary depraved Moor, against which Spain naturally had to defend itself, there never would've been an Inquistion.

28 posted on 02/08/2006 10:34:20 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: zimdog; libwacker
"The Inquisition did not punish murderers for "knifing innocent men, women and children in their beds". It burned people at the stake for being Muslim. That's all."

The purpose of the Inquisition was to end religious diversity in Ferdinand's Spain, it persecuted both Muslims and Jews with equal ferocity.

Ironically, Moorish Spain became a safe haven for Spanish Jews fleeing persecution.

"...the Jews were an afterthought..."

Hardly, they were the primary target of the Inquisition. Over 200,000 Jews were eventually expelled, many of whom fled to Turkey or North Africa, and tens of thousands died during the expulsion. The expulsion from Spain led to the creation of the Sephardic Jewish community, and was viewed as such a betrayal that Sephardic Jews were forbidden by tradition from ever resettling in Spain.

There were no Jews left in Spain.

"When praying towards Mecca on a Friday -- in and of itself -- kills someone, then we can talk. Until then, the killing people whose religious faith does not meet the state's standard remains what it always has been: murder."

Well said.

40 posted on 02/09/2006 8:40:20 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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