Why Did They Become Muslims

Spain in 1222 [1807 C.E.]. Some time later the ferocious tribunals
arose again, and sank in the pages of history in 1250 [1834 C.E.].
Although there is not a precisely known number of the death
sentences pronounced by the myriad tribunals of Inquisition, that it is
beyond millions is doubtless. As a matter of fact, saying that a small
court of Inquisition in Spain alone sentenced twenty-eight thousand
people to death would be enough of a standard whereby to make at
least a rough guess of the number of the executions imposed by those
highly numerous tribunals. Is-haq Efendi of Harput ‘rahima-hullâhu
ta’âlâ’, in his book Diyâ-ul-qulûb, gives an estimate of the number of
the (religious) transgressions, persecutions, and massacres
perpetrated by Christians against Muslims and Jews, by Catholics
against Protestants, and by Protestants against Catholics.
Accordingly, the total number of the people who lost their lives during
the crusades, in the battles fought for the annihilation of non-
Christians during the reign of Emperor Theophilus and his wife
Theodora, in the mass-executions carried out upon the command of
the Pope Gregorius VII, in the massacres perpetrated in order to
Christianize people by force, during the mass-butchery of the Muslim
and Jewish populations living under the Andalusian state in Spain,
during the blood-baths which Catholics perpetrated for the
extirpation of Protestants, first on the night known as Saint
Bartholomew and later in Ireland, in the bloody pogrom of Catholics
organized and commanded by the British Queen Elizabeth, and in
other similar carnages, amounts to twenty-five million, which is a fact
written by Christian historians.
The mass-slaughters perpetrated by the Russians various times,
e.g. in Central Asia in 1321 [1903 C.E.], during the Bolshevik
Revolution in 1917, all over the world after the First World War, and
especially in Afghanistan in 1406 [1986 C.E.], compound that number
several-fold.
The aforesaid documentaries, most of which have been borrowed
from Christian sources, reveal the following facts:
1– Islam has never been a religion of savagery, and Muslims have
never transgressed against Christians, none the least for bloody
purposes. On the contrary, Muslims have protected Christians
whenever they needed protection.
2– In contrast, Christians have provoked one another against
Muslims and Jews, against their co-religionists belonging to other
sects, perpetrated all sorts of persecution and barbarism against them,
and turned the religion of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ into mere savagery.
Whatsoever the motives in the minds of those people who
manipulated those barbarisms, be they personal interests, patriotic
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