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Inspired by
"Horrors of the Inquisition" by Joseph McCabe, an excellent book.
inter alia....
The Rage Against The Machine allusion is rather appropriate too:
Their famous song "Killing In The Name Of" says correctly:
"SOME OF THOSE THAT WERE FORCES
ARE THE SAME THAT BROUGHT CROSSES!"
"Killing in the name of!"
In the case of the Europe-wide and centuries-long Papal Inquisitions, it was literally "killing in the name of Jesus".
According to the excellent book by Cecil Roth, "The Spanish Inquisition", any suspicion of Jewish descent was enough to warrant someone's burning.
Also the torture involved was totally pointless and ineffective. Many torture transcripts show victims didn't know what was going on, didn't know what they were being asked and simply wanted to know what to say.
There are many parallels between the Iberian Holocaust and the Holocaust itself. Some of these are pointed out in this same book, written near the time of the Holocaust.
People are still living today with some of the problems caused by the Iberian Holocaust.
Eternal shame for the Roman Catholic faith in whose name it was perpetrated.
It should not be forgotten that what was done to the Jews of Spain after 1492 was also done to the Muslims of Spain.
Also it should not be forgotten that the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church murdered many Protestants.
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Good site about
Muslim Spain and European Culture is (now) to be found here (I hope):
http://www.sunnah.org/history/moors.htm
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http://www.geocities.com/iberianinquisition/
(Link is dead. Geocities seem to be part of the "halcyon days" of the internet - some wonderful sites no longer up. C'est la vie.......
It was a site which amongst other things, comemorated those murdered in the Iberian Holocaust. )