Being sincere Christians never satisfied Moriscos’ exclusion from honor and office.

Evidence

In Spain, he explains that “I felt hurt, like all the others, because I could not aspire to honors or to appointment as a magistrate or higher dignities, and because I realized that such deprivation of honor (infamia) would be everlasting, and that being a Christian, whether in outer appearance or inner truth, would never be enough. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 956

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what did Old Christian exclusion itself cost Spanish society, since it rested on the same honor code the Moriscos shared?
• XREF: Parallels the religious-conversion-doesn’t-secure-acceptance theme in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and, on the other side, the honor-culture dynamics in Nahdlatul literature on Mediterranean societies.
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ in that both treat honor and infamia as political/identity exclusion mechanisms rather than religious doctrine.