I didn't check out the link. My studies indicated to me that the impetus to the Inquisition was trying to root out Muslims left behind after the Spanish managed to oust them from Iberia. They had suffered through Muslim intolerance and were, in effect, returning the favor. The clearly avowed goal was to ensure that the people of Spain were all Christian.
The Inquisition also reached the New World in an effort to determine of those claiming to be Christians were just that.
the program of the catholic church COMMONLY called THE INQUISITION----referred to getting rid of anything not Christian via genocide---
why not call a spade a spade? Besides its genocide on muslims----who were hardly hit since they had places to which to flee-----it knocked off whole communities of jews and its principles were used to justify mass extermination of persons native to the Americas----Hernan Cortez was an ardent Catholic as was his girl friend Queen Isabella ..... Montezuma's gold helped Cortez to act in FERVENT RELIGIOUS ZEAL -----which is why Mexicans are catholics
today-------Your "revenge against muslim oppressors" justification is really obnoxious. Persons interested in history should visit the Spanish and Portugese synagogue in Manhattan, NY, founded in 1654. That synagogue was founded by escapees -----the murdering of non Christians was
still in FULL SWING even in 1654 and continued here and
there well into the seventeenth and even eighteenth centuries---here and there------the actual beginning of INQUISITION style murder for non Christians started with CONSTANTINE_---circa 300 AD. The THIRD REICH was a reprise. Sweet little Canadian nuns kidnapped native children
until----very recently. HOWEVER---strictly speaking---the term "INQUISITION" refers only to prosecution of GOOD CATHOLICS for heresy-------not-good-catholics------do not
count. Galileo--won his case------the fact that his daughter was a nun----helped
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