> Anyone that checks out historical records will discover that there was no Inquisition in most of Europe.
I don't know what the protestant countries had, or how they called it, but they were definitely doing something wrong because the casualties in Spain pale in comparison to those in Germany. It seems that the inquisition saved lifes, after all.
> hundreds of thousands of Moors and Jews fled or were expelled, and that only tens of thousands returned.
What you say is true, but you have to give the numbers: From 200k Jews living there, 100k were expelled and from those 50k returned. The conversion terms offered by the Catholic Kings allowed for quite a comfortable life in the peninsula, and you had to be a really fanatic believer not to take it. It seems, by the way, that you are talking in terms of race and not religion, which I find quite amusing.
> anyone that checks out historical records will discover that the Jewish ghettos were in fact established by Isabel and Ferdinand, the monarchs who also established the Inquisition and, a few years later, expelled the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people and Moors from their lands.
No, the Jewish ghettos were stablished by the Jewish population itself. Spinoza (whose parents were expelled) wrote about that; they were building an empire within an empire, which caused social friction and translated into popular killings or pogroms. One of the earliest tasks of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova was the protection of such converts from the mobs. The stablishment of the inquisition attempted to solve the problem institutionally.
> One of the few true statements in your comment is that many empires, not only the Spanish Empire, have been founded on genocide.
I didn't say nor imply that. To say that the Spanish empire is rooted in genocide, at least to the extent of the English and Belgian empire, or nazi Germany is laughable.
You speak with such harshness about the past, but you do it from the eyes of a pathologist, grounded from today's vision (which owes, by the way, a lot to the School of Salamanca and its contributions to natural law and the so called human rights) and so you have no autority, not only to judge it, but to use it as any sort of argument against the current secesionist situation.