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To: Elroy who wrote (223000)	3/8/2007 2:12:38 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

a similar argument can be made for conversion to Christianity - In India the Missionaries offered lots of economic aid (like a house a job etc) to convince some of the locals to convert to Christianity. There are different ways to convince different people to convert religion. King Akhbar - a Mogul King whose ancestors had invaded India to setup the Moghul Empire, married a Hindu lady - that led to some kinda bonding, and people converted in both directions.

To: Elroy who wrote (223000)	3/8/2007 8:12:44 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>> How did this Mogul Caliphate come to be? Presumably, prior to Mohamed's founding of Islam there were no Mulims, anywhere. It came to be the same way that ALL dynasties come to be; through taking opportunities by force. But 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). >> If my (admittedly limited) understanding of the process of the spread of Islam is correct, the entire existence of the Mogul Caliphate proves the Muslim's desire to aggressive spread Islam by force when presented with the opportunity. This is a logical fallacy. All that the existence of the Mogul Caliphate proves is that its founders had the desire to take power. To see the fallacy, consider that over the centuries there have been a lot more Muslim artists and scientists than Muslim conquerers. Their existence however does NOT prove Muslims' desire to spread arts and sciences; it only proves that those artists and scientists who happen to be Muslims were interested furthering arts and sciences.