Den muslimske invasjonen av India

Den muslimske erobringen av Midt-Østen, Nord-Afrika og deler av Europa er vel så vidt kjent blant de fleste, selv om disse felttogene og erobringene lever godt i skyggen av oppmerksomheten rundt korstogene.

Et muslismsk erobringstokt, noen mener det blodigste verden har sett, er den muslimske invasjonen av India. Storhaug skriver om dette på s. 204->.

Hvordan dette kan være fullstendig usynliggjort i historiebøker og i ordskiftet om religiøst motiverte felttog og kriger osv. er meg en gåte.

Will Durant, the famous historian summed it up like this:

"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."

Koenraad Elst , the german historian writes in "Negation in India"

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.
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