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Hold on the Mongol Empire was virtually over by 1280 and the Mongols were never Muslims,and their territory never extended into the Levant or India for that matter......are you sure that you don't mean the Mughals who invaded India 1540 well after the collapse of the Mongols and Ghengis Khan and his sons ??????? they were Turkic/Persian peoples with some Mongol but should not be confused with the Mongols under the Great Khan...who were never Muslim steveWhat are you blaberring now? From the time Mohammad appeared on the scene, Islam spread through invasions and conquests. In India alone Islamic savages massacred over 90 million Hindus until they conquered it. And every nation Islam conquered, they forced the Arab religion, culture, and language down the people's throats at the point of the sword. Those who "converted willingly" knew what the consequences would be if they didn't.
Again, try reading some objective history, not Islamophobic propaganda. The only large scale massacres in India prior to the 1948 Partition, were perpertated by Timur-i-Lenk who was a Turko-Mongol warlord in the 14th century who used Islam more as a political tool to legitimise his rule, whereas his own religious beliefs remain a mystery. He's held responsible for depopulated vast areas of Asia and the Levant.
Islam spread as much through missionaries as did any other religion. The only people who claim 90million hindus were massacred by Muslims are those like Andrew Bostrom, who is not even a historian but an agenda driven Islamophobe, along with others like Daniel Pipes. Such accounts also tend to omit the Hindu massacres of Muslims.
If anyone is interested, here's a simplified but more objective account:
Muslim conquests on the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
If you've never heard of Timur-i-Lenk, he's better known as Tamerlane and his forces were a blend of Turkic and Mongol soldiers, here's a brief account of his campaigns in India and the levant:
Timur - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
He was a seriously unpleasant individual who may or may not have been a Muslim. When the Mongol empire split, the Ilkhanids eventually conveted to Islam Ilkhanate - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia but other parts retained their Shamanistic practices.
Unpleasant? Ha ha ha. Yes he WAS a GOOD Muslim, just judging by the body count he left behind. He used Islam as justification for his campaigns of mass murder.
Born into the Barlas confederation in Transoxiana during the 1320s or 1330s, Timur gained control of the Western Chagatai Khanate by 1370. From that base, he led military campaigns across Western, South and Central Asia and emerged as the most powerful ruler in the Muslim worldafter defeating the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire and the declining Delhi Sultanate. From these conquests he founded the Timurid Empire, although it fragmented shortly after his death.
Timur is considered the last of the great nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe, and his empire set the stage for the rise of the more structured and lasting Gunpowder Empires in the 1500s and 1600s.[3][4]:1
Timur envisioned the restoration of the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan. "In his formal correspondence Temur continued throughout his life as the restorer of Chinggisid rights. He even justified his Iranian, Mamluk and Ottoman campaigns as a re-imposition of legitimate Mongol control over lands taken by usurpers[.]" As a means of legitimating his conquests, Timur relied on Islamic symbols and language, referring to himself as the "Sword of Islam" and patronizing educational and religious institutions. He converted nearly all the Borjigin leaders to Islam during his lifetime. "Temur, a non-Chinggisid, tried to build a double legitimacy based on his role as both guardian and restorer of the Mongol Empire."[6] Timur also decisively defeated the Christian Knights Hospitaller at Smyrna, styling himself a ghazi.:91 By the end of his reign, Timur had gained complete control over all the remnants of the Chagatai Khanate, Ilkhanate, and Golden Horde and even attempted to restore the Yuan dynasty.[citation needed]
Timur's armies were inclusively multi-ethnic and were feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe, sizable parts of which were laid waste by his campaigns. Scholars estimate that his military campaigns caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population.
After the death of Abu Sa'id, ruler of the Ilkhanid Dynasty, in 1335, there was a power vacuum in Persia. In 1383, Timur started the military conquest of Persia. He captured Herat, Khorasan and all eastern Persia by 1385; he captured almost all of Persia by 1387. Of note during the Persian campaign was the capture of Isfahan. After the city revolted against Timur's taxes by killing the tax collectors and some of Timur's soldiers, Timur ordered the massacre of the city's citizens; the death toll is reckoned at between 100,000 and 200,000. An eye-witness counted more than 28 towers constructed of about 1,500 heads each. This has been described as a "systematic use of terror against towns...an integral element of Tamerlane's strategic element" which he viewed as preventing bloodshed by discouraging resistance.
****YUP, sounds pretty much like standard Islamic behavior throughout history.
See how I'm educating you, you've looked up Timur-i-Lenk in Wikipedia.
I already knew about him, you moron. I actually knew many Muslims who's name was a derivative of Tamur. Actually a Turkish Muslim friend of mine was named "Tahmourez" back in the days.
Guess which other noteworthy Muslim mass murderer "hero of Islam" is named after him?
Tamerlan Tsarnaev
This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Anzorovich and the family name is Tsarnaev.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Tamerlan Tsarnaev at a boxing event in 2009
Born Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev
October 21, 1986
Elista, Kalmyk ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died April 19, 2013 (aged 26)
Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.
Cause of death
Gunshot wounds and blunt trauma
Resting place
Doswell, Virginia, U.S.
Residence Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Ethnicity Chechen-Avar
Citizenship Russian and Kyrgyz with U.S. Permanent Residence Status (Application for US citizenship was in progress)
Occupation Unemployed
Religion Islam
Spouse(s) Karima Tsarnaev, born Katherine Russell (m. June 2010 – April 2013; his death)
Children 1 daughter
Parent(s) Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva
Relatives 1 brother (Dzhokhar)
2 sisters (Ailina and Bella)
Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (Cyrillic: Тамерла́н Анзо́рович Царна́ев /ˌtæmərˈlɑːn/; October 21, 1986 – April 19, 2013) and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The bombings killed three people and reportedly injured as many as 264 others. Tamerlan was half-Chechen and half-Avar. He and his family immigrated to the United States as refugees in 2002. At the time of the bombings, Tamerlan was an aspiring boxer who authorities believe had recently become a follower of radical Islam