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~ 128 ~ recorded, they ‘waded ankle-deep in the gore of the Muslim infidels. '' 74 Godfrey Higgins Godfrey Higgins wrote: ''Nothing is so common as to hear the Christian priests abuse the religion of Mohamed for its bigotry and intolerance. Wonderful assurance and hypocrisy! Who was it expelled the Moriscos from Spain because they would not turn Christians? Who was it murdered the millions of Mexico and Peru, and gave them all away as slaves because they were not Christians? What a contrast have the Mohamedans exhibited in Greece! For many centuries the Christians have been permitted to live in the peaceable possession of their properties, their religion, their priests, bishops, patriarchs and churches…'' 75 ''In all the history of the Caliphs, there cannot be shewn anything half so infamous as the Inquisition, nor a single instance of an individual burnt for his religious opinion; 74 Ruth Cranston. World Faith. Harper and Row Publishers. , NY. P. 155 (1949) 75 Godfrey Higgins. Apology for Mohammed. Lahore. pp. 123‐4 (1829)