After the Conversion Decree of 1502 Muslims residing on the peninsula have two options:forced conversion to Christianity (moriscos ) or leave the peninsula.
Their origins, their houses, their possessions and their families were here, why should they leave? . So, they became mass; but it was simply a formal conversion. They continued to maintain their customs and rites in privacy. The Church had achieved its objectives – at least apparently – and the situation calmed down. But the old Christians (the authentic ones) were suspicious of the Moors:they saw how they maintained their customs, clothes, culture; they were cheap labor for farms (sounds familiar to you?) and it was thought that they supported, from the interior – like a third column – the Barbary pirates of the Mediterranean. The monfies (Moorish bandits) dared to plunder and murder. These small groups of bandits spread terror in the Alpujarras.
When the time came, they began to organize and came to proclaim the Moorish Fernando de Valor as king. with the name of Aben Humeya/Omeya . He chose this name because he claimed descent from the first Umayyad, Abd al-Rahman I (The Wandering Prince). The Barbary pirates saw that, now, they had to support this revolt to hurt, in their own home, their greatest enemy, Felipe II. The group became more and more numerous, the local authorities could not do anything, they desecrated churches, they planted themselves at the gates of Granada... in 1568 the war of the Alpujarras broke out .
Philip II sends the Tercios, with Don Juan de Austria at the head, to suffocate the revolt in 1569. When the Tercios begin to gain ground, disputes between the Moriscos begin. King Aben Humeya/Omeya is assassinated by his cousin . In 1570 they are defeated and exiled from the Alpujarras for the rest of the peninsula.
In 1609, during the reign of Felipe III, the definitive expulsion of the Moriscos (about 300,000) took place. . The consequences were terrible for the agriculture of the Ebro valley and the Levantine area; and for the State for the loss of income through taxes.
To finish, and as something shocking , I have found these claims by Andalusian Identity:
1.- Appointment of Fernando de Valor as the favorite son of Andalusia for being the first Andalusian to fight for the freedom of our land.
2.- Strengthening the teaching of the Arabic language, since a large part of our history is written in that language and recovering it is the best tribute we can pay to those Andalusians who were executed by the Inquisition for speaking and writing it.
3.- Recognition and consideration of Andalusians for all those descendants of Moorish Andalusians who, due to the repression of the Spanish State, had to leave Andalusia, just as the King of Spain D. Juan Carlos I did with the Spanish Sephardim.
4.- Changes in the study plans so that young Andalusians know the history and culture of their land, without prejudice or lies.
5.- Provision of funds for the recovery of Andalusian architectural heritage.
6.- Request to the Spanish State and the Catholic Church to apologize to the Andalusian people for the genocide committed on its population and for five hundred years of oppression and political, social and economic marginalization.
I would like to recommend reading the post Are the Andalusians descended from the Moors? to the members of Identidad Andaluza.
Photo:Expulsion of the Moriscos – Obra Social Bancaja