sTs: The challenge is a no contest

Submitted by Plato (India), Nov 6, 2008 at 19:19

sTs, your wrote to Mulla Sadra:

>>you tell me of incidents when the Muslims have destroyed civilizations.

I challenge you<<

The benign pagan culture of Arabia of the so-called jahiliya was the first civilization to go and replaced by a religion that is violently biased against all other faiths and explicitly called for replacing them through bloodshed (9:111, 9:33, 9:38, 9:41, 3:85, 4:74, 6:125, 8:65, 86,….).

The pagans of Arabia tolerated the insults that Muhammad heaped upon their idols and culture without much demur for 13 years. He was forced into exile when his preaching against their faith became intolerable and he lost his protector. When Muhammad got the upper hand over Mecca he completely destroyed their pagan culture beginning with the physical destruction of the idols they had venerated for generations.

This incident in Mecca was the template for what happened when Muslims conquered other civilizations. Muslims destroyed nations (Zoarastrian Persia, Byzantine Syria and Iraq, Coptic Egypt, Hindu Sindh, Buddhist Afghanistan ….), tribes (Banu quraiza, banu Nadir), the university at Nalanda one of the greatest the world has known was sacked by Khilji, a Muslim king ringing in the end of Buddhism in India in the twelfth century AD.

"The Persian historian Minhaz, in his chronicle the Tabaquat-I-Nasiri, reported that thousands of monks were burned alive and thousands beheaded,^[22] and the burning of the library contin­ued for several months and "smoke from the burning manuscripts hung for days like a dark pall over the low hills."^{[23" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda)}

^Regards

^Plato

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