Charity toward expelled coreligionists was read as Arabic-learning conspiracy

Evidence

The very fact that local Moriscos were ready to receive their brethren charitably was perversely regarded as suspect by the Inquisition: “We understand that they have welcomed them so as to learn Arabic better from them” (153). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1094

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the immodesty article’s pattern of authorities reinterpreting innocent practice as political/religious signaling. — connects to: Arab-language education was smeared as terrorist by guilt-by-association campaigns — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 670; The network smeared a secular educator by fabricating guilt-by-association with Muslim groups