@no1marauder saidIn every discussion when presented with facts you run. Here is a short history behind Islam, and its conquests ... from Claude AI:
That's a belief that you believe Muslims hold, not one they actually do.
Anyway, I'm really not interested in discussing the subject with you since you almost exclusively spew hate filled, irrational bile. You are incapable of reasoned debate.
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Rapid military expansion
Muhammad died in 632. Within about a century, Arab armies had taken Syria, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, North Africa, Spain (711), and Sindh (711). The Sassanian Empire fell completely and the Byzantine Empire lost most of its richest provinces.
Later expansions followed the same pattern: the Ghaznavid and Ghurid conquests of northern India (11th-12th centuries), the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal rule, Seljuk and Ottoman advances into Anatolia and the Balkans (Manzikert 1071, Constantinople 1453), and Mali and Songhai in West Africa.
Classical jurists divided the world into the "abode of Islam" and the "abode of war," and Quran 9:29 was read as authorizing war against People of the Book until they paid jizya "while humbled." Jizya was a tax that existed because the conquered population was not Muslim.
Non-Muslims could keep their faith but lived as dhimmis, paying jizya, facing restrictions on building churches, bearing witness, or holding certain offices. Converting removed these burdens, which created a steady incentive to convert.
Some cases involved direct coercion:
- The Almohads (12th century) gave Jews and Christians in North Africa and Spain a choice of conversion, exile, or death.
- In Yemen, Jews were forced to convert in the 1160s and again under the Mawza exile (1679).
- Persian Jews faced forced conversion under the Safavids and in Mashhad in 1839.
- The Ottoman devshirme took Christian boys from the Balkans and raised them as Muslims.
- Temple destruction under Mahmud of Ghazni and Delhi Sultanate rulers, and the reimposition of jizya by Aurangzeb (1679), are cited as examples in India.
Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Africa, Anatolia, and Afghanistan were largely Christian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, or pagan before conquest and are overwhelmingly Muslim now.
Proponents see this as the cumulative result of conquest and pressure.
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