Food for thought on the Inquisition

The Inquisition, as most of us in the Counter-Jihad know all too wearily well, is -- along with that gold standard, the Crusades -- one of the common barbs in the politically correct quiver of arrows of outrageous multiculturalism by which any substantive criticism of Islam (let alone the condemnation it so richly deserves) is supposed to be disabled, as the politically correct multiculturalist comes to the aid of the Brown Person (the Mother of all Others, the Muslim) under attack by greasy, white, racist right wing Islamophobes.  And this virtue-signalling aid, though it resembles the classic Tu Quoque fallacy, actually turns out to be, on closer examination, a strange sideways mutation of it: what I call the Ego Quoque fallacy.

At any rate, enough about the neurotics who dominate our Western culture.  Let us consider some food for thought about how that one bête noire among a litany of others (the Crusades, the witch-burnings, Galileo, the Transatlantic slave trade, the "genocide" of the American Indians, Western Colonialism, etc., etc., ad Dhimminauseam) may well have had a salutary silver lining.

From a comment I made on Jihad Watch last April (before I was banned from Jihad Watch by the Rabbit Pack complaining to Robert Spencer's tech genius, "Marc"):

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It is arguable that the Spanish Inquisition was importantly — if not primarily — a vetting process to winnow out the seditionist Muslims and ex-Muslims. Consider the context; the Christians had finally won back their Occupied Territory after centuries of ruthless Islamic rule by rulers as bad as ISIS. And now they had a society riddled with Muslims and Muslim spies.

In the study on the great Spanish poet & playwright Cervantes, Michel de Cervantes, sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre politique et littéraire (“Miguel de Cervantes: His life, his time, his political and literary works”), by the 19th century French historian, Émile Chasles, he mentions in passing that after the Reconquista, Spain contained many ex-Muslims who had ostensibly converted to Christianity and who thus had been allowed to remain — and that within a generation or two, large numbers of these supposed ex-Muslims perpetrated seditious sabotage so extensive, the Spanish King had to call back troops he had sent south into the Mediterranean to fend off Muslims down there (perennially terrorizing Christians), and deploy them back at home against this general insurrection. That should come as no surprise; but apparently always will to Westerners who can never, it seems, wholly exorcise their naivete about Muslims.

Further Reading:

See my previous writings on Cervantes and Islam, listed on this Google page.