Yo do write very well! Is not an empty compliment.
About your comments, I can point to some excerpts in the Inquisition wikipedia article:
> The Inquisition was established as a genocidal institution against the Jewish and Muslim populace of Iberia,
"The Inquisition was originally intended primarily to identify heretics among those who converted from Judaism and Islam to Catholicism"
There was no genocidal intention, its a nuance but important. It wasn't established to "find every Muslim and put it on a stake".
> For every Giordano Bruno burned at the stake, a thousand monks prudently refrained from exploring controversial issues, and a hundred thousand loyal Catholics remained fettered in an intellectual darkness so profound they could not even see their chains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Censorship
"The censorship of books was actually very ineffective, and prohibited books circulated in Spain without significant problems. The Spanish Inquisition never persecuted scientists, and relatively few scientific books were placed on the Index. On the other hand, Spain was a state with more political freedom than in other absolute monarchies in the 16th to 18th centuries."
"Despite the repeated publication of the Indexes and a large bureaucracy of censors, the activities of the Inquisition did not impede the development of Spanish literature's "Siglo de Oro", although almost all of its major authors crossed paths with the Holy Office at one point or another."
> The cost of the Inquisition is not to be measured only in the smoking corpses of Jewish and Muslim people, or even those falsely accused of practicing Judaism, but in the lost memory of entire civilizations, and in the books that were never written.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_toll...
"evertheless, some authors consider that the toll may have been higher, keeping in mind the data provided by Dedieu and García Cárcel for the tribunals of Toledo and Valencia, respectively, and estimate between 3,000 and 5,000 were executed" [...] "In either case, this is significantly lower than the number of people executed exclusively for witchcraft in other parts of Europe during about the same time span as the Spanish Inquisition (estimated at c. 40,000–60,000)."