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Muslim leader “led forth his army to ravage Hindustan. Every person that fell into his hands he slew.”

Jun 12, 2018 11:16 am By Robert Spencer

Ramadan Day 27 thought for the day from my new book The History of Jihad: in the 1340s, the Delhi sultan Muhammad ibn Tughlaq, according to a contemporary historian, “led forth his army to ravage Hindostan. He laid the country waste from Kanauj to Dalmau [on the Ganges, in the Rai Baréli District, Oudh], and every person that fell into his hands he slew. Many of the inhabitants fled and took refuge in the jungles, but the Sultan had the jungles surrounded, and every individual that was captured was killed.”

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  1. elee says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 11:26 am

    Read up and wake up kafirs

  2. Ewanda says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 12:36 pm

    I just tuned into a presentation by a John L. Esposito from 2014. I couldn’t believe that he actually felt confident in what he was promoting about Islam, especially now in 2018. Does anyone know if he still is preaching this blather or if witnessing the events of the intervening years has educated him to the actual facts? Has he read an accurate copy of the Koran? Has he read the Hadiths and Fatwahs? It is really worrisome to me that he freely uses the term “Islamophobia” in referring to many of the giants who are trying to open the eyes and ears of citizens who are in danger of a global takeover and he is getting so much exposure!!!
    His views are very dangerous unless he is more informed now.

  3. DHazard says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 4:03 pm

    Because the devastation of the Hindus at the hands of Muslims happened AFTER Muhammad died there is no record of the events comparable to the Hadith. But if you asked a historically illiterate Muslim about it he would make up an answer that absolves or justifies the Muslim’s actions.

    Now, just talking about it in public sets off all kinds of hair trigger alarms. Since the favorite emotion of Muslims and their ass kissers is outrage, followed by character assassination and silencing, the true history of the catastrophe that is Islam will probably never become common knowledge (like Hitler’s or Stalin’s atrocities).

    • J D S says

      Jun 13, 2018 at 11:02 am

      We can look at the ravaging Muslim armies of the past and see the destruction they caused. TODAY there are no huge Muslim armies attacking cities and nations….TODAY there are no tanks grinding their tracks in our cities… No roar if aircraft’s engines overhead dropping bombs on our cities… No stomp of boots in the streets with citizens being dragged from their homes and shot or imprisoned..YET the west is being overrun and in a sense conquered by a Muslim horde.
      We have met the enemy face to face …and we are it…AND THE WORLD STANDS STILL!! God please save us from ourselves.

  4. The European says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 5:02 pm

    Well, Islam has a proud tradition of Terror. It always employed shock and awe tactics: mass killings, sex slavery and cultural vandalism.

    On mass killings and vandalism:

    “The sanctuaries were destroyed; the churches were broken down…They threw out from the churches the crosses and the altars, the holy oils and the books and the things which were honoured by Christendom, all was scattered and discarded… The enemies ravaged the land, they burned the houses, they killed the men, they burned the cities, the trees, the vineyards and anything they found green they cut. So much grew this plague that there remained in Spain no good village or City… that was not burned or brought down or taken over by the Moors; and the cities they could not conquer they tricked them and conquered them with false treaties ( this was another stratagem Muslims used to employ during their conquest of Spain: Muslim conquerors granted privileges and autonomy to cities and Visigoth leaders,if they did not resist Muslim conquest. Treaties were being drawn to that effect, which, of course, were broken by the Muslims, once they had consolidated their power).”
    ( from Alfonso X’s History of Spain, primera crónica general)

    On terror:

    “One understands Muhammad’s statement: I was helped through the terror ( that befell the enemy)…(The same fact explains) Muhammad’s victory with small numbers over the polytheists during his lifetime, and the victories of the Muslims during the Muslim conquests after (Muhammad’s death). God took care of His Prophet. he threw terror into the hearts of the unbelievers…Terror in the hearts of their enemies was why there were so many routs during the Muslim conquests.” ( Ibn Khaldun,
    The Muqaddimah,2:35).

    On extermination and sex slavery:

    “Musa (Ibn Nusayr) fought with them battles of extermination ( this is about the Muslim conquest of North Africa), he killed myriads of them…(After one battle), innumerable maidens, inestimable by their their beauty and accomplishments, and the daughters of the kings and chiefs, were on this occasion the prize of the victors… Musa caused the daughters of the kings to stand before him, and having sent for his son Merwan, he said to him: “Come, O my son! Come and choose among these maidens.”
    ( Ibn Koteybah Ad-dinawari,( ninth century) in al-Makari, vol.I)

    • KJW says

      Jun 15, 2018 at 2:03 pm

      The Muslim conquerors were as dumb brutes as the Mongols who sacked Baghdad destroying even infrastructure besides killing ~800,000 people, even women and children and left noting behind. Why destroy infrastructure and burn homes that could be used?

      In North Africa the Romans built roads and lined them with olive trees. They made a deal with farmers that if they maintained the roads they could have the olives. The Muslims ruined all this, let their animals over-graze and tirnef all the greenery into infertile sand.

      The Romans left buildings. King Herod is Israel may have been psychotic but he had engineering feats built that remain today. Israelis became good archeologists and western archeologists excavated the famous Middle Eastern sites, such as the city of Babylon, Persepolis in Iran, etc.

      They’ve relied on the West to find and develop their oil, design buildings, medicine, clocks, weights and measures, eyeglasses, electricity, etc. For all this conquering, Saudi Arabi in the 1950s had very few businesses relying on oil, high illiteracy, and what Winston Churchill said, “slovenly” habits of agriculture, “a fearless apathy,” “sluggish methods of commerce,” “improvident habits,” and “insecurity of property wherever they go.” (Today some British are saying Churchill was racist though he was correct. He also chastised the Muslims treatment of women. Such European leftists are pathetic and feed into the Arab Muslims lack of introspection.)

      It makes me wonder about the future. While Muslims learn from the West, some being doctors, tech workers, Obama made it a priority for NASA to train Muslims, you wonder if without the non-Muslim westerners, if they will progress in the way we have. An Algerian politician once said, “I think America is successful because of its freedoms.” Without so many diversions I think apathy can set in. I’m not sure, but for all these decades of western education, they still haven’t given the world, say, what the Japanese have given and give. The Muslims, on the whole, do not examine this, though some Arab scholars have, but relatively so few. Perhaps they can plod along, but they have not developed the modern morality of the US (e.g., no apostasy laws, gone are public hangings, laws against infidelity, etc.) What happens with those who still live in fear and are made to lie so much? In the past Muslims gained honor and pride by slaughtering and discriminating against non-Muslims which is a warped way to gain honor. What is the effect of this collective guilt festering while knowing we find sharia abhorrent?

      They left a lot of mosques behind, the domes being learned from the Byzantines.

  5. infidel says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    If U want to see TAQIYYA SERVED HOT… it never gets better than Pakistan’s repeated FALSE PROMISES of CEASEFIRE to India… which it makes and breaks at will.. But the more harrowing part is HOW THE INDIAN GOVT REPEATEDLY FALLS FOR THESE FALSE PROMISES OF STOPPAGE OF JEHAAD…

    • infidel says

      Jun 13, 2018 at 1:14 am

      https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/4-bsf-jawans-martyred-3-injured-in-ceasefire-violation-by-pakistan-in-jks-samba/articleshow/64565548.cms

      This is the link.

  6. infidel says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 11:08 pm

    Another ISLAMIC TRUISM from the Infidel:

    THERE CAN BE ONLY PAUSE OF JEHAAD AND NEVER A PERMANENT CESSATION. JEHAAD AGAINST KHAFIR WILL NEVER END!!

  7. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    “Anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party surges in polls amid EU’s Eurosceptic wave”

    https://www.rt.com/news/429545-sweden-democrats-surge-polls/

  8. Nour says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 9:02 am

    It’s not scholarly to not mention the name of the historian when quoting.
    Please add.

    According to historian Abraham Eraly, the Muslim rule was the last golden age of India

    Please refute
    .

    • b.a. freeman says

      Jun 13, 2018 at 5:08 pm

      oops! sorry, Nour, i missed this. here U go:

      • when muhammad bin qasim attacked Debal in 712, all males age 17
      and up were killed, and the women and children enslaved (k.s. lal,
      “Muslim Slave System in Medieval India”).
      • when bin qasim took rawar, he killed 6000 men (*after* the battle), and
      their followers and dependents were enslaved. a later count of slaves
      came to 60 000 (k.s. lal again).
      • in 1761, in the 3rd battle of panipat, the victorious afghan durrani had
      about 40 000 maratha soldiers who had surrendered slaughtered the
      day *after* the battle. this doesn’t count the 60 000 to 70 000 soldiers
      of all sides who were killed in the several-day battle. as U can see,
      this durrani fellow had *excellent* islamic behavior, doing exactly what
      the lying, back-stabbing profit muhammed would do. furthermore, “good”
      islamic behavior hadn’t changed in 1000 years, either. sources: k.s. lal
      again, and wikipedia.
      • when sultan muhmud ghazni took thanesar, the muslim army brought
      back about 200 000 slaves (from al-utbi, the sultan’s secretary).
      • when waihind was taken, at-utbi wrote that 500 000 slaves were taken
      (k.s. lal).

      there are *lots* more instances i can list, but i’ll be busy with a customer soon, and can only add more later. how many references do U want?

    • Pete says

      Jun 14, 2018 at 2:49 am

      Ah, that shit called islamic golden age.
      Why are most islamic countries became sh*tholes in this modern age.
      Is it backward progress to stone age?

  9. The European says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 5:12 pm

    Let’s listen what Sir V.S. Naipaul can tell us about Islam in India:

    “India was destroyed by the Muslim invaders, they ruled it severely and ravaged it for five to six centuries and they left nothing behind. They didn’t build a school, no institutions, so that was the cause of the poverty, that utter wretchedness where people had no faith in institutions, had no-one to appeal to ever, produced this idea of holy poverty. Muslims brought poverty and misery to India. Before the arrival of the Muslims India was a thriving civilization with excellence in art, literature, music, medicine. After the end of Muslim tyranny in India nothing was left of it. Muslims never did anything good for India. They just looted,looted and looted and left nothing for the coming generations. Looking at the condition of Islamic countries it becomes clear why so many of them are failed states – the same “mis-rule” – the so called “rule of Islam” is still in place in those countries; and until it is there rest assured that those hellholes will remain in the same condition.”

    https://themindset.worldpress.com/2012/11/24/muslims-brought…

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