- From the start of the Islamic invasion of India, in the 7th Century, an estimated 80 Million Hindu’s and Buddhists were killed or forcibly converted.
- Over 40,000 Hindu and Buddhist temples were destroyed and replaced by Mosques.
- Over 2 Million Bangladeshi’s, mostly Hindu’s, were killed in a genocide in 1971 by the Pakistani Military.
"The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history". The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with great glee and pride of the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave markets and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800 AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by sword during this period.“
"Let it be said right away: the massacres perpetrated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in history, bigger than the holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese." - Francois Gautier
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Hello lying Pig ,
While Muslim kings ruled India for around eight centuries, they did not enforce widespread conversions.
Critics of the "Religion of the sword theory" point to the presence of the strong Muslim communities found in Southern India, modern day Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and western Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines coupled with the distinctive lack of equivalent Muslim communities around the heartland of historical Muslim empires in the Indian subcontinent as refutation to the "conversion by the sword theory".[1] Different population estimates by economic historian Angus Maddison[2] show that India's total population, including adherents of all religions, did not decrease between 1000 and 1500, but increased by about 35 million, from 75 million to 110 million, during that time.
Reference
[1] a b c d e Eaton, Richard M. The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993 1993.Online version last accessed on 1 May 2007
[2] Maddison, Angus (2004). The World Economy: Historical Statistics, 1–2001 AD. Organisation for Economic
Btw according to Hamidur commision report 0.2 million Hindus were killed by Pakistani army during the independence war of Bangladesh and it was not considered as hindu Muslim battle as most of the people killed in that battle were Muslims (over a million)
Hello lying Pig ,
While Muslim kings ruled India for around eight centuries, they did not enforce widespread conversions.
Critics of the "Religion of the sword theory" point to the presence of the strong Muslim communities found in Southern India, modern day Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and western Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines coupled with the distinctive lack of equivalent Muslim communities around the heartland of historical Muslim empires in the Indian subcontinent as refutation to the "conversion by the sword theory".[1] Different population estimates by economic historian Angus Maddison[2] show that India's total population, including adherents of all religions, did not decrease between 1000 and 1500, but increased by about 35 million, from 75 million to 110 million, during that time.
Reference
[1] a b c d e Eaton, Richard M. The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993 1993.Online version last accessed on 1 May 2007
[2] Maddison, Angus (2004). The World Economy: Historical Statistics, 1–2001 AD. Organisation for Economic
Btw according to Hamidur commision report 0.2 million Hindus were killed by Pakistani army during the independence war of Bangladesh and it was not considered as hindu Muslim battle as most of the people killed in that battle were Muslims (over a million)
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