Anti-Morisco mob violence only alarmed authorities once it threatened Christians.

Evidence

The Saragossa authorities now became seriously worried, because the Latr´as’s camp at Quinto was really not so far from their city. Law-abiding Christian folk could see that the attacks of the wild men might soon turn against them. The evil genie needed to be put back into the bottle. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1200

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes a pattern in the author’s corpus: violence toward an out-group is tolerated until it spills toward the dominant group — cf. moral-panic dynamics flagged elsewhere.