September 13, 2014
STUMBLING INTO AN INSIGHT:
If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic (Jerry A. Coyne, 9/13/14, New Republic)
As ISIS slaughters its way though Syria and Iraq, it became inevitable that we'd hear from apologists who claim that ISIS is not in fact "true Islam," and that its depredations are due to something other than religious motivation. Those motivations, say the apologists, are political (usually Western colonialism that engenders resentment), cultural (societal tradition), or anything other than religion. [...]Well, if ISIS is not Islamic, then the Inquisition was not Catholic.
Which is precisely what B. Netanyau demonstrates in his magisterial, The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 13, 2014 6:15 AM
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