I'll cut to the chase. In a classic attempt at moral relativism, Obama made a comment that as ISIS commits atrocities in the name of Allah today, the Crusaders/Inquisition did the same in the name of Christ. Stop. Stop right there.
1) The Spanish Inquisition for example: in a 450 year time span a sum total of 2200 people died, roughly 5 per year. In less than 2 hours on 9/11/01, Islamic terrorists killed 3000 people. Do the math.
2) During the Crusades, nearly 1 million people died because of Christian campaigns against Muslims over 200 years. Hitler killed 6 million Jews in the name of what he believed to be Christ (and he admired Islam, more on that in a minute). So, roughly 7 million from those two things alone. That will lead one to say that Christianity has caused a great deal more death in the name of Christ than Islam ever did (and before someone starts, I am not denying that any atrocities were committed in the name of the Christ. So lets get this out of the way right now).
3) Now, the Islamic genocides of the Hindus between 1000 (Conquest of Afghanistan) and 1525 AD (the end of the Delhi Sultanate) have been estimated according to Professor K.S. Lal to have caused the population of the country to decrease by 80 million over a 525 year period. The number isn't exact, and more research is needed to cement it, however; but the fact that the number is even in that statistical range should scare you. Lets put it another way, a prominent historian Will Durant observed:
Another famous and renowned Belgian historian Koenraad Elst wrote in his book Negationism In India - Concealing The Record Of Islam
4) Now about Hitler. He admired Islam as a 'fighting religion.' No wonder, since people like Haj Amin al Hussaini assisted Hitler in slaughtering millions of Jews. He was noted as saying:
5) Now we change gears to racism and slavery. I often hear about how poorly the African Americans were treated in the South before and during the Civil war, during the Jim Crow era, and the Civil Rights era. They were enslaved, hung, discriminated against and terrorized by white supremacists (who coincidentally used the name of Christ to justify their actions).
6) But this is where Islam comes in: In the Muslim slave trade (yes you heard me, slave trade), they captured and held at least 28 million Africans, but 80 percent were calculated to have died before making it to their destinations. In 1400 years, a total of 140 million (estimated) people died.
6) The Muslim slave trades eclipsed anything that could have occurred during the Civil War era south, by quantum leaps and bounds, most notably with the Barbary Pirates between the 16th and 18th Centuries.
7) So, lets total just these two instances together, if they happen to be confirmed. We're talking 220 million people killed by members of Islam over 1400 years of history. That would equal roughly the entire US population in 1977 alone, and even exceed that of the most infamous totalitarians of the 20th Century.
So, in summation, members of Islam have more than likely committed far greater atrocities in the name of their deity (and still are) than the Crusaders or the Conquistadors ever could have hoped for in their time in Jesus' name. If Obama only knew how wrong he was.
1) The Spanish Inquisition for example: in a 450 year time span a sum total of 2200 people died, roughly 5 per year. In less than 2 hours on 9/11/01, Islamic terrorists killed 3000 people. Do the math.
2) During the Crusades, nearly 1 million people died because of Christian campaigns against Muslims over 200 years. Hitler killed 6 million Jews in the name of what he believed to be Christ (and he admired Islam, more on that in a minute). So, roughly 7 million from those two things alone. That will lead one to say that Christianity has caused a great deal more death in the name of Christ than Islam ever did (and before someone starts, I am not denying that any atrocities were committed in the name of the Christ. So lets get this out of the way right now).
3) Now, the Islamic genocides of the Hindus between 1000 (Conquest of Afghanistan) and 1525 AD (the end of the Delhi Sultanate) have been estimated according to Professor K.S. Lal to have caused the population of the country to decrease by 80 million over a 525 year period. The number isn't exact, and more research is needed to cement it, however; but the fact that the number is even in that statistical range should scare you. Lets put it another way, a prominent historian Will Durant observed:
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
Another famous and renowned Belgian historian Koenraad Elst wrote in his book Negationism In India - Concealing The Record Of Islam
The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death. Entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred, with hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign, and similar numbers deported as slaves. Every new invader made (often literally) his hills of Hindus skulls. Thus, the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. Hindu slaughter. The Bahmani sultans (1347-1480) in central India made it a rule to kill 100,000 captives in a single day, and many more on other occasions. The conquest of the Vijayanagar empire in 1564 left the capital plus large areas of Karnataka depopulated. And so on.
As a contribution to research on the quantity of the Islamic crimes against humanity, we may mention Prof. K.S.Lal's estimates about the population figures in medieval India (Growth of Muslim Population in India). According to his calculations, the Indian (subcontinent) population decreased by 80 million between 1000 (conquest of Afghanistan) and 1525 (end of Delhi Sultanate). More research is needed before we can settle for a quantitatively accurate evaluation of Muslim rule in India, but at least we know for sure that the term crime against humanity is not exaggerated.
But the Indian Pagans were far too numerous and never fully surrendered. What some call the Muslim period in Indian history, was in reality a continuous war of occupiers against resisters, in which the Muslim rulers were finally defeated in the 18th century. Against these rebellious Pagans the Muslim rulers preferred to avoid total confrontation, and to accept the compromise which the (in India dominant) Hanifite school of Islamic law made possible. Alone among the four Islamic law schools, the school of Hanifa gave Muslim rulers the right not to offer the Pagans the sole choice between death and conversion, but to allow them toleration as zimmis (protected ones) living under 20 humiliating conditions, and to collect the jizya (toleration tax) from them. Normally the zimmi status was only open to Jews and Christians (and even that concession was condemned by jurists of the Hanbalite school like lbn Taymiya), which explains why these communities have survived in Muslim countries while most other religions have not. On these conditions some of the higher Hindu castes could be found willing to collaborate, so that a more or less stable polity could be set up. Even then, the collaboration of the Rajputs with the Moghul rulers, or of the Kayasthas with the Nawab dynasty, one became a smooth arrangement when enlightened rulers like Akbar (whom orthodox Muslims consider an apostate) cancelled these humiliating conditions and the jizya tax.
Negationism in India, Chapter 2, Negations in India
4) Now about Hitler. He admired Islam as a 'fighting religion.' No wonder, since people like Haj Amin al Hussaini assisted Hitler in slaughtering millions of Jews. He was noted as saying:
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs, pg. 115
5) Now we change gears to racism and slavery. I often hear about how poorly the African Americans were treated in the South before and during the Civil war, during the Jim Crow era, and the Civil Rights era. They were enslaved, hung, discriminated against and terrorized by white supremacists (who coincidentally used the name of Christ to justify their actions).
6) But this is where Islam comes in: In the Muslim slave trade (yes you heard me, slave trade), they captured and held at least 28 million Africans, but 80 percent were calculated to have died before making it to their destinations. In 1400 years, a total of 140 million (estimated) people died.
a minimum of 28 Million Africans were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since, at least, 80 percent of those captured by Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave market, it is believed that the death toll from 1400 years of Arab and Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been as high as 112 Millions. When added to the number of those sold in the slave markets, the total number of African victims of the trans-Saharan and East African slave trade could be significantly higher than 140 Million people.
-- John Allembillah Azumah, author of The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue
6) The Muslim slave trades eclipsed anything that could have occurred during the Civil War era south, by quantum leaps and bounds, most notably with the Barbary Pirates between the 16th and 18th Centuries.
7) So, lets total just these two instances together, if they happen to be confirmed. We're talking 220 million people killed by members of Islam over 1400 years of history. That would equal roughly the entire US population in 1977 alone, and even exceed that of the most infamous totalitarians of the 20th Century.
So, in summation, members of Islam have more than likely committed far greater atrocities in the name of their deity (and still are) than the Crusaders or the Conquistadors ever could have hoped for in their time in Jesus' name. If Obama only knew how wrong he was.
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