Detained Moriscos served only as pretexts in Christian political disputes

Evidence

It was not until 1575 that such a measure could be pushed through. (As for those Moriscos originally detained, we simply do not hear what happened to them! Clearly they mattered only as pretexts for wrangles among Christian factions.) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 584

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The silence of the original victims amid the legal wrangling is a dense, haunting point about how political systems consume marginalized people as instruments.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: when political disputes over procedure erase the humans they nominally concern.