How about proving something slightly different

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Oct 9, 2012 at 23:49

Dear Dr Pipes:

One of your readers asked DNM to prove that muslims armies killed huge Hindu populations when they attacked India. Perhaps they did not. So I will not prove it but let me try to prove a slightly different thing.

Just west of the region where present day Hindu live (aka India) there are at least three countries that had matured non-Islamic populations and cultures (Paksitan, Afghanistan and Iran) till at least one century after the birth of Islam. Today these countries are 98% Islamic. What is interesting is that in today's India non-muslim refugees from all these three countries are still present. Parsis of India escaped Islamic persecution and took refuge in India. Many Sindhis and Punjabis of modern India also escaped from parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan in 1947 and took refuge in India. Who was killed and who was not is difficult to prove but only yesterday a 14 year old muslim girl who stood up against fundamentalist muslims was shot in the neck and head in Pakistan. If it can happen in the 21st century, just imagine what may have happened in teh 8th century. I do not think Parsis of the 8th century Iran took weeked trips to India and decided to stay over. Punjabis and Sindhis of 1947 certainly did not.

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