Forced conversion breeds suspicion that hardens into hatred when converts prosper

Evidence

One was the forced conversion of Jews and Muslims in Spain after the Re­ conquest. Forced conversion always arouses a suspicion of insincerity, particularly among the enforcers. That suspicion hardens into hatred when the so-called converts continue the professional and commercial successes of their unconverted forebears. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1038

Forced conversion always arouses a suspicion of insincerity, particularly among the enforcers. That suspicion hardens into hatred when the so-called converts continue the professional and commercial successes of their unconverted forebears. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1038

Categorization

• QUESTION: Testable mechanism: does enforced-outsider economic success predict intensified group hatred across other cases (Marranos, Moriscos, crypto-Jews elsewhere)?
• SEED: Why suspicion among enforcers specifically? worth investigating the psychology of the enforcer distrusting the convert’s authenticity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1038