Reports indicate that the attacks have taken the lives of 50 worshippers and left dozens more wounded when a white supremacist opened fire and live-streamed the shootings.
The spread of hatred and intolerance toward Islam today along with a rising surge of Anti-Semitism is a reminder of the Inquisition when Christians spread hatred and intolerance against those who were not of the Christian religion.
"The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas. Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years, the Inquisition is infamous for the severity of its tortures and its persecution of Jews and Muslims. Its worst manifestation was in Spain, where the Spanish Inquisition was a dominant force for more than 200 years, resulting in some 32,000 executions."The same mindset that existed during the Inquistion is the same mindset that allowed the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler.
And now, that same mindset is being encouraged by Islamophobes!
When will people learn to stop repeating the horrors of history?
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