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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (223090)3/8/2007 8:37:47 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
in order for you to bring Islam into this, you need to show that somehow being Muslim made them use more force than if the founding kings had been Christians or Hindus (or heck even more appropriately, nomadic Moguls).

No, I thought the question was prove how in a given time period Muslims have used their power to dominate and force conversion of others. The mere existence of your Muslim Mogul Caliphate proves that they dominated others (their current subjects, formerly under some other ruling group) and they forced them to convert to Islam or suffer the consequences.

So the question becomes did the Moguls expand their empire because they were Moguls, because they were Muslims, because of some combination of the two, or some other as of year unmentioned reason. Afraid I don't have the answer - we'd have to ask them.

But how can you get past the combination of two ideas and not have an aggressive, expanding force. The two ideas being

1- Many Muslim nations have not separated church and state.
2- To convert others to Islam is good.

Those two points would lead you to believe that it is good for the Muslim nation to convert the non-Muslim nation to Islam = when you can fight a war and probably win against a non-Muslim nation, a Muslim nation should do so because the resultant conversion of the non-Muslim population is good.
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