@AJS
Much of the world's history is one of conquest, war and empire. It has ongoing impacts but fortunately not usually random violence decades later.
True. And i would say its not random violence decades latter. Its more of, people didn't know whats going on.
Thats the whole idea of putting military dictators in power, to make sure they silence and suppress everyone so problems don't go out of control.
For example, Iraq has been a major source and focus of terrorist groups and conflict in the past decade or so correct ?
Well, for an outside who doesn't look much into it, before Saddam invaded Iran and then Kuwait, everything was fine and great, and then the 2003 invasion came along and Saddam was removed and whatcha know, violence and terrorism became a daily thing, and war became the norm and it started exporting to other countries.
What people usually don't see is that the reason Iraq was so "peaceful" is that it had, since colonialism, genocidal tyrant one after anther, each killing 10s if not 100s of thousands of people to silence them. And pretty much all of them took over by a military coup and all with help of outside nations (mostly Britain and US) and the take over usually happens right when the former tyrant starts to soften up. Because Iraq wasn't a nation, it was multiple nations put together under one rule under colonialism. Same conditions for Syria, it was 3 nations along with the Kurds whom were self governing under the Ottoman empire.
So what you're seeing today in a number of parts of the world both with Muslims and non-muslims, isn't something new or random or such. Rather its just that now it got out of control that it cant be silenced by brute force any more and the whole world started seeing whats really going on.
And again, this is not just with Muslims, you hear lot about Muslims because, well, its 1.6 billion people that pretty much most of them were or are under such conditions. So the news is frequent. But if you looked at Africa or other part of Asia, you'd that its not just Muslims. Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and yes even non-religious groups are all starting to rise up and the news of their conditions started coming in all across the world.
Islam's adventures in India go back way beyond European imperialism and have been described as genocide.
I did actually discuss this period before, and i would say rather no it wasn't about religion in general or Islam in particular. If it was, the majority of the population under the Timurid empire and then followed by the Mughal empire would be Muslims not Hindus.
It was more about conquest, or in particular, re-claiming conquest. And it was done by the Hazzar tribe (Parni tribe) reclaiming their empire and the Timur blood line was in charge back then. And the Hazzar tribe has a habit of cleansing all non-Aryan and hostiles during conquest and its done it a number of times before in history (its much much older than Islam) . Simply at that period that population was a lot larger so the death count was alot higher.
Basically ethnic supremacy.
I am a Hazzari BTW.