Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India c7.s3.39

c7.s3.39

⁹ Ibid., pp. .27-28 quoting from the Quran, Baqara:193; Anfal:39. Consequently "each country has its own account of horrors (of forced conversions and persecutions). in the eighth century we had massacres in Sindh. In the ninth century there were the massacres of Spanish Christians in and around Seville. In the tenth, the persecutions of non-Muslims under the Caliph al-Hakim are well known. In the eleventh, the Jews of Granada and Fez met their fate... Mahmud destroyed the Hindus and their temples during the same period. In the twelfth, the Almohads of North Africa spread terror wherever they went. In the thirteenth, the Christians of Damascus were killed or sold into slavery and their churches burned to the ground..." The blood-soaked story goes on and on. Ibn Warraq, pp. 233-237.