[FITZ]

Even today there are more than traces of the influence Islam had in Spain ---the Inquisition was unique to Spain because it was the only Christian country that endured 700 years of Islamic dominance ---if there had never been Islam in Spain, there would not have been the Inquisition.

[PhilDragoo]

---the Inquisition was unique to Spain because it was the only Christian country that endured 700 years of Islamic dominance ---

QED Islam is a religion of peace.

Or not.

[Restorer]

the Inquisition was unique to Spain because it was the only Christian country that endured 700 years of Islamic dominance

Factually incorrect. The Papal Inquisition was started in 12something and is technically still in business. At various times it operated in most countries of Western Europe.

The Spanish Inquisition, BTW, spent most of its energy going after lapsed Jewish converts to Catholicism and captured Protestants, not lapsed converts from Islam.