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Regardless of the term I'm glad it happened



Why?


Red wine and tapas instead of the religion of peace?


It wasn't all sunshine and roses back then. When the Reconquista was completed, one of the first thing Spain did was expel all the Jews. Jews could in theory convert to Christianity instead, but then they became the prime targets of the Spanish Inquisition.

We should be careful not mindlessly apply our modern ideas of Islam and Christianity to a completely different time period.




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