Thursday, 11 June 2009 00:06

Inquisitions and Muslims Genocide in Andalusia
Thursday, 11 June 2009 00:06 -
By : Feras Nour Al-Halk
Translated By : Bayan Taleb
Revised By : Magdy Abd AL-Shafy
The tragedy of Moslems in Spain is a witness to the

Christian terrorism , those Christians in Spain used
unprecedented methods of torture in compelling the
Moslems to change their religion
Prepared by Firas Nour Al-Hakk
Administrator of the Koran and Sunna Scientific

Miracles Encyclopedia website
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Allah the exalted says in the Holy Quran what means

:
(By the heaven holding the big stars (1). And by the
Promised Day (the Day of Resurrection) (2); And by
the witnessing day (Friday), and by the witnessed
day (3); Cursed were the people of the ditch (the
story of the Boy and the King) (4). Fire supplied
(abundantly) with fuel (5), When they sat by it (fire)
(6), and they witnessed what they were doing against
the believers (i.e. burning them) (7). They had
nothing against them, except that they believed in
Allah, the All-Mighty, worthy of all Praise! (8) Who, to
whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the
earth! And Allah is Witness over everything (9).
Verily, those who put into trial the believing men and
believing women (by torturing them and burning
them), and then do not turn in repentance, (to Allah),
will have the torment of Hell, and they will have the
punishment of the burning Fire (10)).
Buruj Chapter
Allah the exalted says in the Holy Quran what

means: (How can there be a covenant with Allah
and with His Messenger for the polytheists
(disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) except
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those with whom you made a covenant near

Al-Masjid-al-Haram (at Makkah)? So long, as
they are true to you, stand you true to them.
Verily, Allah loves the pious (7). How (can there
be such a covenant with them) that when you
are overpowered by them, they regard not the
ties, either of kinship or of covenant with you?
With (good words from) their mouths they
please you, but their hearts are averse to you,
and most of them are rebellious, disobedient to
Allah (8). They have purchased with the verses
of Allah a little gain, and they hindered men
from His Way; evil indeed is that which they
used to do (9). With regard to a believer, they
respect not the ties, either of kinship or of
covenant! It is they who are the transgressors
(10) (. AL-Tauba Chapter. )
On the authority of Khabbab bin Al-Art may

Allah be pleased with him said: We
complained to Allah's Apostle (about our
state) while he was leaning against his sheet
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cloak in the shade of the Ka'ba. We said,

"Will you ask Allah to help us? Will you
invoke Allah for us?" He said, "Among
those who were before you a (believer) used
to be seized and, a pit used to be dug for
him and then he used to be placed in it.
Then a saw used to be brought and put on
his head which would be split into two
halves. His flesh might be combed with iron
combs and removed from his bones, yet, all
that did not cause him to revert from his
religion. By Allah! This religion (Islam) will
be completed (and triumph) till a rider
(traveler) goes from San'a' (the capital of
Yemen) to Hadramout fearing nobody
except Allah and the wolf lest it should
trouble his sheep, but you are impatient."

Narrated by Bukhar.
Granada, Muslims' last stronghold in

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Spain, fell in the year (897 A.H=1492

A.D); this was an ominous sign of the
religious and social downfall of the
Andalusia nation, and the dispersal of its
intellectual and literary legacy. Muslims
tragedy there was one of the worst
tragedies in history; this period
witnessed barbaric and brutal acts done
by inquisitions to strip Spain of the
traces of Islam and Muslims, and to
annihilate their heritage that flourished
in this country for about eight centuries.
Lots of Muslims in Andalusia immigrated

to North Africa After the fall of their
kingdom, saving their religion and
freedom from the tyranny of Christians
in Spain. Spain revertedto its old religion
while the rest of Muslims were forced
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either to become Christians or leave the

country. This intolerant Christian spirit
led to the pursuit, oppression and terror
of defenseless Muslims ending up in
executing a nation and a religion over
Spain's soil.
Inquisition counsel or the holy counsel,

supported by the throne and church,
was active committing flagrant abuses
against Moors (Christians Muslims);
dozens of resolutions were issued
standing between these Muslims and
their religion, language, habits, and
culture. Cardinal Caminiti burnt tens of
thousands of Islam and sharia books; in
22 Rabi' Awwal 917 Hijri/ 20 June 1511,
a royal decree was issued obligating all
residents who became Christians to
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hand over all Arabic books they have,

then royal orders and decrees followed
preventing speaking Arabic and ended
up in forcing Christianity on Muslims.
Because of their love for their land and
the fear of poverty, lots of Muslims
accepted Christianity as an escape,
while others preferred to die to see the
dear homeland becoming a cradle for
disbelieve, many others escaped with
their religion; various endings were
written for one tragedy-It is the departure
of Islam from Andalusia.
Inquisitions:
Fernando the fifth, king of Spain, died
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on (17 Thi Al-Hijja 921 H.A= 23

January 1516 A.D) and entrusted his
grandson Charles the fifth with the
task of protecting Catholicism, the
church, and choosing conscientious
inquisitors to work in a just and firm
way in serving God, strengthening the
catholic religion, and eradicating the
cult of Muhammad.
Fernando kept on torturing and

oppressing Muslims left in Spain for
about twenty years after the fall of
Andalusia. His instrument was
inquisitions that were established by
a papal decree in (Ramadan 888 H.A=
October 1483 A.D). He appointed
"Tomas Di Turkimida" general
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inquisitor, and put a constitution for

these new inquisitions and a number
of regulations and resolutions.
Most of the worst ways of torture

known in the Middle Ages were used
in these inquisitions and thousands
died under torture; these inquisitions
rarely pronounced anyone innocent ;
death and barbaric torture were the
victims' destiny; some victims were
even burned in a celebration attended
by the king and bishops; people burnt
were in multitude , sometimes tens of
people, and Fernando the fifth adored
attending these celebrations and
praised the bishops inquisitors each
time such a celebration was
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organized. This counsel spread, since

establishment, a feeling of fear and
dread in people's hearts; some of
these Moors escaped. Strangely ,The
Catholic Church refused the belief of
the rest despite their loyalty to the
religion they were forced to embrace
because it wasn’t convinced of the
apparent Christianizing of Muslims
but was aiming at annihilating them.
Charles V and the compulsory

Christianization
Moors had a feeling of reassurance
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after the death of Fernando and felt

the wind of hope again; they hoped
that the era of Charles V would be
better than his ancestor. The new
king showed- in the beginning-
some leniency and tolerance
towards Muslims and Moors, the
inquisitions were somewhat more
moderate in pursuing them and
stopped intruding on them in
Aragon thanks to efforts of the
nobles and lords for whom
Muslims worked in their estates.
This moderate policy lasted only
several years, and then the
intolerant policy was back in the
royal court and the church and had
its triumph in issuing a decree in
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(16 Jamada Al-Aula 931 A.H= 12

March 1524 A.D) forcing
Christianity on every Muslim,
expelling who refuses to revert to
Christianity out of Spain, Those
who refused to go out were to be
slaves ; according to this decree ,
Moslems Mosques also became
churches .
When
freethe
in accepting
Moors sawit.
this extremism of Sp
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On of the torturing means that were us
As a result, a royal decree was

issued forcing all Muslims who
were forced to adopt Christianity to
stay in Spain as Christians, and to
Christianize all their children; if
they renounced Christianity their
properties were to be
confiscated and they were
sentenced to death. The decree
also ordered the authorities to
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transform all the remaining

mosques into churches
immediately.
The destiny of these Muslims was

to live in horrible days with the
inquisitions' terror; lists of
prohibition came successively
containing strange things such as:
prohibiting circumcision,
prohibiting standing facing the
kiblah, banning taking a bath, and
forbidding wearing Arab clothes.
One of the torturing tools was

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combing the body with iron combs.
When Granada inquisition found

some violations of these lists, it
materialized its threat indeed and
burned two dissenters in (Shawal
936 A.H/ May 1529 A.D) in a
religious ceremony.
The decrees of this emperor were

the worst on Muslims, and it didn't
take long until revolution broke out
in most of the areas inhabited by
them in Saragossa, Valencia, and
other areas. Muslims were
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determined to die for the sake of

religion and freedom, but the
Spanish possessed weapons and
ammunition so they were able to
suppress these local revolutions
except for Valencia that contained
great numbers of Muslims, about
27 thousand families; they could
not subside them because their
city was on the sea and connected
with Muslims in Morocco.
Muslims in Valencia showed fierce

resistance to Christianizing
decrees; huge numbers of them
took shelter in (Bni Wazer) suburb
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which made the government send a

big force with cannons against
them and made the Muslims finally
surrender and submit; the emperor
sent them safety declaration
provided that they convert to
Christianity, and the penalty of
slavery was modified to the fine;
Andalusians kept their right to
wear their traditional clothes by
paying the emperor a huge sum of
money.
The appeasement policy of Charles

V was an attempt to calm things
down in southern Andalusia so that
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he can turn to the disturbance in

Germany and Holland after Martin
Luther and his religious treatise to
reform the church and the spread
of Protestantism appeared. He
needed to focus all his attention
and the inquisitions' attention to
the "heretics" in north Europe.
Besides, for the inquisitions to do
their job, this means that all
andalusians should be burnt
because the church knew that their
conversion to Christianity was
worthless. In addition, most of the
andalusian farmers were working
for the nobles or the church and
their interest was in keeping those
farmers and not killing them.
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Emperor Charles V, when issuing

his decree of Christianizing
Muslims, promised to make them
equal with Christians in rights and
duties, but this equality was never
realized. Those who turned into
Christianity felt that they were still
under suspicion and oppression;
lots of taxes, that Christians didn’t
pay, were imposed on them, and
life became harder and harder for
them until they became like slaves.
When authorities felt that the
Moors intended to immigrate, a
decree was issued in the year (948
A.H, 1514 A.D) preventing them
from changing their houses or
going to Valencia which was their
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favorite destination. Then another

decree came preventing them from
emigrating from these coastal
cities except with a royal
authorization in exchange for
heavy fees. Inquisition watched
over the emigration activity and
suppressed it fiercely.
This severity didn’t prevent the

emperor from showing moderation
from time to time; in (950 A.H, 1543
A.D) he issued an amnesty for
some Christianized Muslims
fulfilling the wish of Toledo
archbishop, and allowed them to
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marry their sons and daughters to

pure Christians and that the
dowries they paid for the treasury
won't be confiscated because of
the sins they committed.
Thus, the Spanish policy -during

the reign of emperor Charles V (922
A.H, 1516 A.D until 963 A.H, 1555
A.D)- varied towards the Moors
from severity to some aspects of
leniency; but these Muslims were
exhausted, chased and killed, the
church inquisitions found them a
favorite field for their intolerance
and terrorism.
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Alkhamiado
Andalusia's nation was, during

this sad martyrdom that was
forced on it, trying everything to
keep its religion and tradition;
the Moors, even though they
entered Christianity, were
secretly attached to Islam, and
lots of them were practicing the
Islamic rites secretly and kept
their Arabic language. But the
Spanish policy realized the
importance of the language in
supporting the national spirit,
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that's why Emperor Charles V

issued in (932 A.H, 1526 A.D) the
first law prohibiting Moors from
speaking Arabic. This law was
not strictly applied because
Moors paid him (100) thousand
Ducat to allow them to speak
Arabic. Then Emperor Philip II
issued in (964 A.H, 1566 A.D) a
new law prohibiting speaking
Arabic and was strictly carried
out; Guarani was enforced as a
language for speaking and
dealings. Moors found in Guarani
an outlet for their reflections and
literature; they wrote this
language secretly in the Arabic
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letters which led through time to

the invention of a new language
"Alkhamiado" which is Spanish
alteration of the word "A'ajami
(foreign)". This language
remained a buried secret for two
centuries and they were able to
keep their Islamic faith; some
scholars wrote in this language
books explaining what a Muslim
should do and belief to keep his
Islam; they also explained the
Koran in it and the
autobiography of the prophet
peace be upon him. One of the
most famous writers in this
language was a scholar called
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"Aberalo boy"; he wrote books

interpreting the Holy Koran and
summarizing the Sunna; of the
most famous poets was
Muhammad Rabdan who
composed lots of poems and
religious songs. This is how the
Moors protected themselves by
the "caution" principle and
resisted the Christianizing
attempts and their missionary,
education, and terrorism ways
did not succeed in the full
Christianizing of these Moors ,
so the decision of expel came
after all these failures.
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The Moors attempts to have

external effective support from
the Ottoman State or the Mamluk
State in Egypt failed despite the
raiding and piracy attacks done
by ottomans, Algerians, and
Andalusians on the Spanish
shores and ships, and despite
supporting the Moors rebels.
Inquisitions continued fighting

these Muslims all during the
sixteenth century which
indicated that the deep-rooted
influence of Islam in the hearts
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remained despite the horrible

ordeals and the passage of time.
It might be useful to mention that
a Spanish man called "Bidia"
headed to Makka to do hajj in
(1222 A.H, 1807 A.D) i.e. after 329
years of starting the inquisitions.
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One of the torture ways used by inqu
One of the torture ways used by

inquisitions' monks was to burn
their victims alive and roast them
like cattle. Four centuries After
the fall of Andalusia, Napoleon
sent his military expedition to
Spain and issued a decree in
1808 A.D canceling the
inquisitions in the Spanish
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kingdom.
Let's hear this story told by one

of the French army officers who
entered Spain after the French
revolution. Colonel Limutski- one
of the French military expedition
officers in Spain- wrote: "in 1809,
I was military attaché in the
French army fighting is Spain;
my squad was among the
squads that occupied (Madrid).
Napoleon had issued a decree in
1808 canceling inquisitions in
the Spanish kingdom, but it
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wasn’t carried out because of the

current state and the political
mess.
A certain class of monks

leaders of the canceled
inquisition insisted on torturing
each French they caught in
revenge for the decree and to
cast terror in the French hearts
so that they leave the country to
the monks.
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While I was walking at night

down one of Madrid's streets that
wasn't so crowded, two gunmen
attacked me and wanted to kill
me, so I defended my self
fiercely. The thing that saved me
from getting killed was the
coming of one of our army
brigade whose task was to roam
the city. They were a group of
cavalrymen carrying lamps and
spending the night keeping
order, the two murderers ran
away as soon as they saw the
group. It was clear from their
clothes that they were of the
inquisitions soldiers, so I
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hastened to (Marshal Slut)

Madrid's martial governor and
told him the story. He said that
those evils are definitely
responsible for the killings of our
soldiers every night; they must
be punished and the Emperor's
decree of canceling their
inquisitions must be carried out.
He ordered me to take one
thousand soldiers and four
cannons to attack the
inquisitions monastery to catch
those devils monks.
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Jesuits fired at us and we

entered by force; he continues
saying: "I ordered my soldiers to
capture all the priests and their
soldier guards in order to bring
them before a court-martial. We
then started looking around the
halls, rocking chairs, Persian
carpets, pictures, and large
offices. The floors of these
rooms were made of polished
waxed wood, a nice fragrance
filled the rooms and made the
whole court similar to the one in
the majestic palaces inhabited
be kings who spent their lives in
luxury and entertainment. We
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later knew that these fragrances

came from candles put in front of
the monks' pictures. Those
candles apparently were mixed
with rose water"
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Prophet
Among
Mohummed
a (believer)
thosesaid
whoused
" wereto
bef
"Our efforts were almost in

vain trying to find the torturing
rooms; we checked the
monastery and all its corridors
and cellars yet found nothing
referring to the inquisitions. So
we decided to leave the
monastery while feeling
desperate. The monks were-
during the inspection- swearing
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and assuring the falsehood of all

what was said about their
monastery ; their leader started
to confirm his innocence and the
innocence of his followers with a
low voice lowering his head and
almost in tears. I ordered the
soldiers to get ready to leave the
monastery, but lieutenant "De
Lul" asked me to wait saying:
may the colonel allow me to tell
him that our mission is not done
yet?!! I said: we've searched the
whole monastery and didn't
discover any thing suspicious,
so what do you want
lieutenant?!... He said: I want to
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inspect the floor of these rooms;

my heart is misgiving something
; there must be some secret
beneath it. "
Here, the monks looked at us anxiou
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The soldiers started to

break the door with the stocks
of their rifles; the monks faces
turned yellow.
The door opened and we saw

a stair leading down, so I
quickly took a big candle
that's about a meter long and
was lighting the picture of
one of the inquisitions former
heads. When I started to
descend, a Jesuit monk put
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his hand on my shoulder

intrusively and said: son,
don't hold this candle with
your hand that is stained with
fighting blood, it is a holy
candle.
I told him: your candle

stained with innocents' blood
is not worthy to be touched
by my hand; we will see who
is the filthy and the
bloodthirsty murderer, you or
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I.
I descended the stairs

followed by all the officers
and soldiers with their
swords unsheathed. When
we reached the end of the
stairs, we arrived to a big
scary hall which was the
courtroom and in the middle
there was a pillar made of
marble with a huge iron ring
and chains attached to it to
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shackle the indicted.
In front of this pillar, there

was a terrace where the head
of the inquisition and the
judges would sit on to judge
innocents. Then we went to
the rooms of torture and the
rooms of shredding the
human bodies, these rooms
extended over a big space
under the floor.
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I saw in these rooms things

that irritated me and made
me feel disgusted and
tremblly for the rest of my
life.On of the torturing means
that were used by
inquisitions was to cut the
organs with sharp tools.We
saw small rooms in the size
of the human body, some
were vertical and some
horizontal; the prisoner in the
vertical room would remain
standing on his feet during
his imprisonment until he
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dies, and the prisoner in the

horizontal room would lie in
it until he dies. The corpses
would stay in these tight
prisons until they decay and
the flesh falls of the bone and
get eaten by worms. To
discharge the stinky odors
emitted from the corpses,
they opened a small window
to the open space.
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On of the torturing means that
We found in these rooms

skeletons which were still
in chains. Prisoners were
men and women whose
ages ranging from 14 to 70;
we were able to save some
of them alive; we broke
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their shackles while they

were at the point of death.
Some of them went crazy
because of the heavy
torture; all the prisoners
were naked, our soldiers
had to take off their clothes
in order to cover some of
the prisoners.
We took the prisoners out

into light gradually so that
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they don't lose their sight;

they were crying out of joy
kissing the soldiers' hands
and feet for saving them
from the horrible torture
and bringing them back to
life; it was a heartbreaking
scene.
We moved then to other

rooms and saw
bloodcurdling things; we
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found horrific tools used in

torture, some were for
breaking the bones and
crushing the human body,
they started with crushing
the bones of the legs then
the chest, head, and hands
gradually until the whole
body is smashed; from the
other side of the machine,
the smashed bones would
come out, and blood mixed
with minced meat, that’s
what they did to the poor
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innocent prisoners. Then

we found a box in the size
of the human head, the
head of the person whom
they want to torture would
be put in this box after
shackling his hands and
legs so that he can't move;
on the top of the box, there
is a hole dripping drops of
cold water on the head of
the poor prisoner regularly,
a drop each minute; many
prisoners went crazy
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because of this kind of

torture, and the tortured
stays on this condition until
he dies.
Another torturing tool is a

casket with sharp knives
fastened to it.
The beautiful lady casket,

young men are thrown into
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it then it closes on them
They would threw the

tortured young man in this
casket then close its door
with its knives and daggers,
when it closes, it tears the
body of the tortured to
pieces.
We also found tools looking

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like hooks; these hooks

would be thrust into the
tongue of the tortured then
pulled out with the tongue
so that it gets cut piece
after piece; there were also
hooks that would be thrust
into the breasts of women
and pulled out violently
until the breasts are cut off
or severed by knives.
51 / 59
We found whips made of thorny
52 / 59

A picture of the
beautiful lady casket in
which the young

man was thrown
into .
53 / 59
Main source: free

encyclopedia site
http://ar.wikipedia.org
(1) Intolerance and

tolerance between
Christianity and Islam, by
54 / 59
Sheik Muhammad
Al-Ghazali.
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Anan- Andalusia End
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fourth edition 1408 A.H
= 1987 A.D.
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- Moors of Andalusia-
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cultural history. (A
study in a book
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Civilization in
Andalusia,
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Inquisitions and Muslims Genocide in Andalusia

Thursday, 11 June 2009 00:06 -

By : Feras Nour Al-Halk

Translated By : Bayan Taleb

Revised By : Magdy Abd AL-Shafy

The tragedy of Moslems in Spain is a witness to the

Inquisitions and Muslims Genocide in Andalusia

Prepared by Firas Nour Al-Hakk

Administrator of the Koran and Sunna Scientific

Allah the exalted says in the Holy Quran what means

Allah the exalted says in the Holy Quran what

those with whom you made a covenant near

On the authority of Khabbab bin Al-Art may

cloak in the shade of the Ka'ba. We said,

Granada, Muslims' last stronghold in

Spain, fell in the year (897 A.H=1492

Lots of Muslims in Andalusia immigrated

either to become Christians or leave the

Inquisition counsel or the holy counsel,

hand over all Arabic books they have,

Fernando the fifth, king of Spain, died

on (17 Thi Al-Hijja 921 H.A= 23

Fernando kept on torturing and

inquisitor, and put a constitution for

Most of the worst ways of torture

organized. This counsel spread, since

Charles V and the compulsory

Moors had a feeling of reassurance

after the death of Fernando and felt

(16 Jamada Al-Aula 931 A.H= 12

On of the torturing means that were us

As a result, a royal decree was

transform all the remaining

The destiny of these Muslims was

One of the torturing tools was

combing the body with iron combs.

When Granada inquisition found

The decrees of this emperor were

determined to die for the sake of

Muslims in Valencia showed fierce

which made the government send a

The appeasement policy of Charles

he can turn to the disturbance in

Emperor Charles V, when issuing

favorite destination. Then another

This severity didn’t prevent the

marry their sons and daughters to

Thus, the Spanish policy -during

Andalusia's nation was, during

that's why Emperor Charles V

letters which led through time to

"Aberalo boy"; he wrote books

The Moors attempts to have

Inquisitions continued fighting

remained despite the horrible

One of the torture ways used by inqu

One of the torture ways used by

Let's hear this story told by one

wasn’t carried out because of the

A certain class of monks

While I was walking at night

hastened to (Marshal Slut)

Jesuits fired at us and we