Man, I’ve been studying Al-Andalus and medieval Spain for more than a decade now, and I’m sorry to say you that your claims are downright delusional. I don’t even know where you got such wrong informations.
Indeed among the Arab elite, many didn’t want the locals to convert so as to benefit from taxes, etc. but it didn’t prevent the majority of the population from turning Muslim by the 10th century under the Umayyad califate (in Egypt it happened a century later).
In her book about the Nasrid kingdom, Rachel Arié tells us that Aragonese diplomats sent to Granada wrote in a letter that “out of 300,000 Granadines, there are barely 4 real Moors”. Meaning that the population was mostly Iberian genetically, and not Arab-Berber.
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