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For others he is more like Torquemada, the infamous head of the Spanish Inquisition.
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His opposition to torture included the process of water-boarding, a technique McCain said began during the Spanish Inquisition.
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Netanyahu's own lesson from the Spanish Inquisition is that for Jews, assimilation is as much of a utopian path as socialism.
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Tens of thousands of Marranos were tortured by the Spanish Inquisition.
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Netanyahu's findings led to his revolutionary conclusion that the Spanish Inquisition did not target the Jews as a religion, but the Jews as a race.
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ABSTRACT:A CRITIC AT LARGE about the Spanish Inquisition.
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But then in the 17th Century, supposed heretics were tried and executed here during the Spanish Inquisition -- burnings at the stake and deaths by garrotte took place on the north side of the square, hangings to the south.
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Even at this conference, despite a few gleams of light (such as the Serb lawyer who insisted that Balkan war criminals must face justice), the tribunal was compared to the Spanish Inquisition, a medieval court and a communist show trial.
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What was the Spanish Inquisition?
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Indeed, while the term "waterboarding" has been with us for only a few years, the technique of simulated drowning has a long and notorious history, dating back to at least the Spanish Inquisition and repeatedly cropping up in "enhanced interrogation venues" from Vietnam to Algeria, from Chile to Cambodia.
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