Converts to Islam were accepted because Islam dominated Granada

Evidence

What was new in the situation at this time was that those Muslims who surrendered and wished to stay on in their homes were only permitted to do so if they were willing to accept conversion to Christianity. The Muslim masses seem to have done this, although it is impossible to speak to their hidden inner motivation. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 214 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Ramon de Penyafort studied law in Bologna (from 1210 to 1219) where he met Dominic; he became a Dominican in 1222. Ramon served as confessor and chaplain to Pope Gregory IX from 1230 to 1238, then served as master general of the Dominicans from 1238 to 1240. Most of the rest of his life he spent in Barcelona, where, as spiritual adviser to Jaume I, he convinced the king to establish an inquisition in Aragon and to give his backing to the evangelical activities of his team of Dominican missionaries. In the last thirty-five years of his life, Ramon rallied royal and papal support for the establishment of language schools for missionaries, for the obligatory attendance of Muslims and Jews at the friars’ missionary sermons. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1183 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Syrian Jacobites welcomed Muslim conquest as deliverance from Byzantine persecution; Granadan conversion to Christianity had been forced and violated the 1492 Capitulations — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1000; Lack of overseas Muslim aid forced mass conversion in Granada (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Surrendering Spanish Muslims could stay only by converting to Christianity #complicates (0.74) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 214
• Missionary conversion of Muslims required royal inquisition-backed coercion #complicates (0.73) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1183