In AD 711, Muslim forces first invaded Europe and went up to France. Their advance was stopped at the Battle of Toulouse in AD 721. But Muslims sporadically raided southern Gaul of France, as far as Avignon, Lyon and Autun. At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, in AD 732, Frankish leader Charles Martel defeated a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe. However, in Europe the Muslims could retain and rule in Spain for next 781 years up to 1492.
Muslim forces under the Aghlabids conquered Sicily after a series of expeditions spanning from AD 827 to AD 902, and had notably raided Rome in 846. The Emirate of Sicily was established in 965. Muslims also held onto southern Italy until their expulsion by the Normans in 1072.
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church against Muslims in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades were those to the Holy Land in the period between AD 1095 and AD 1291. Those Crusades were intended to recover Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule.
On January 2, AD 1492, Muslim ruler of Spain, King Boabdil, surrendered Granada to the Christian Spanish forces. In AD 1502 the Spanish crown ordered all Muslims to be forcibly converted to Christianity. The next century saw a number of Muslim persecutions, and in AD 1609 the last Moors still adhering to Islam were expelled from Spain.
Meanwhile, between AD 1354 and AD 1526, the Muslim Ottomans crossed into Europe again at Gallipoli and conquered the territory of present-day Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Hungary. Even the Ottoman empire laid siege to Vienna in AD 1683.
So, in the period between AD 711 and AD 1683, Muslims repeatedly invaded and were in control of many parts of Christian Europe for varying periods of time. However, by AD 1609, Spain was cleansed of Muslims by the Christians through Reconquista. Many Christians, who were converted to Islam in the Eastern European countries during Muslim invasions and rule, live there even today. For almost 970 years, gross animosity and violent relations existed between Christians and Muslims in Europe.
In Indian sub-continent, Muhammad bin Qasim is said to have led the first Muslim attack on Sindh in AD 712 and defeated the Hindu King Dahir of Sindh. But in the face of stiff and continuous resistance from other Hindu kings for next 500 years, there was no formal establishment of Muslim kingdom in India until AD 1206, when the Delhi Sultanate was established. For next about 550 years Muslim ruled small to large parts of India, mostly by positioning with many Hindu kings and Chieftains. In AD 1757, Muslim rule came to an end in India when British East India Company defeated and replaced the Muslim rule.
In Indian scenario, after AD 1757, Muslim ruling class and local converts stayed back in India. Muslim population grew under Muslim rule and by 1940, it constituted about 24 percent of total population of British India. During the 190 years of British rule in India (AD 1757 to AD 1947), Muslims consolidated themselves twice. First, they tried to regain political power through an armed mutiny against the British in AD 1857, which they lost miserably. It is interesting to note that many Hindu principalities also actively supported the Muslim mutiny of 1857.
In the second phase of consolidation, Muslims of British India launched the country-wide Khilafat Movement (AD 1919 to AD 1924) in support of re-establishing Ottoman Khilafat. In the process, they launched massive and violent attacks on Malabar Hindus, strengthen their Islamic identity and brotherhood, and through a later 23 years of violent political protest and riots, could successfully truncate British India and created Islamic Pakistan in AD 1947. They created Pakistan, their separate Islamic country by dividing British India as they refused to live with majority Hindus in the same country.
But after the creation of Islamic Pakistan in AD 1947, about 30 million of Muslims, who fell within the boundary of independent India, did not migrate to Islamic Pakistan they created and stayed back in independent India. Presently their population has increased to more than 200 million. But, unlike Spain, the Hindu majority independent India neither forcefully reconverted Indian Muslims to Hinduism, nor drove them out. In Hindu-majority India, they have been enjoying specially protected minority status with about 24,000 Madrasa, more than 100,000 Mosques and about 2500 Square KM of land under Waqf. They have their separate personal Laws and freedom to practice, preach and propagate Islam in secular democratic India.
It is seen that Islamic intrusion in Europe and India occurred almost at the same time. But, where in Hindu majority independent India Muslims could stay and flourish even today, they were almost cleansed from Europe 525 years back. Present small Muslim population in Western Europe and North America is the outcome of West’s poking of its dirty nose into the affairs of Muslim countries in its old colonies, Middle-East and West Asia.
So, it becomes highly hypocritical and nauseating when Western intelligentsia, academia and media try to teach Hindu-India about tolerance, peaceful co-existence and multiculturalism in its support towards the phantom-problems of Indian Muslims. They fail to see that even after slaughtering 80 million of Hindus in 750 years of Muslim invasions and rule and destroying more than 40,000 Hindu temples, Hindu-India’s Muslims are better off than many Muslim countries. Unlike Myanmar and Spain, there was never any mass migration of Muslims from India for religious persecution.
After its era of inhumanly-extensive physical invasions and colonisation through centuries, West has switched over to propaganda invasion in past few decades. It can’t come out of its bogus obsession of ‘White Man’s Burden’. The Left-Liberal-Woke-Islamist gang of the West (Europe and North America) has joined the self-obsessed and narcissist gangs of Harvard University, Rutgers University, Oxford University, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian and The Washington Post etc. to propagate pro-Islamic and anti-Hindu narratives on India. Considering their past track records of human rights violation, exploitation and cruelty on the indigenous/local people of Asia, Africa, America and Oceania, the West should stop playing holier than thou and shut up.
The obsession of the West about some imaginarily-violent Hindutva crosses all the boundary of sanity. The biased-West cries on imaginary fascist-Hindutva after erasing its memory of the hundreds of Islamic terrorist attacks across the world in past five decades. The gang of notoriously anti-Hindu Audrey Truschke even organized a conference last year in USA on some stupid title, “Dismantling Global Hindutva”. Nobody knew when and how Hindutva was globally established? Well, the agenda driven stupidity of the West knows no bounds.
