The problem is the 344 years separating Ferdinand and Isaabella from the morally equivalent North African Almohad fanatics who invaded Muslim Al-Andalus in 1148 and sent Maimonides fleeing to Cairo. The Granada caliph Boabdil who fled his realm in 1492 wept at the Alpujarra pass at his last glimpse of Granada. His mother telling him that he should not weep the tears of a woman for that which he couldn't defend as a man, which defined him as a very pale shadow of his theocratic 12th century predecessors.