The Muslim empire spread through Africa, Europe, and Asia at its peak and many mass killings, rapes, murders, etc did occur in the process of the imperialism and land grabs.
There’s no one Muslim empire so you’ll need to be more specific. Also there’s a pretty big difference between “normal” levels of mass killings and rapes and what European colonial powers were getting up to. Things that bad tend to get pretty famous, see: the Mongols.
Japan has a history of ethnic cleansing/genocide towards the Ryukyu and Ainu people. They also committed similar atrocities towards the Koreans in the war, and the mass rape of Koreans kept up through expansions of American bases there.
Imperial Japan was also a 19th-20th century colonial power so okay? My whole argument is that not all societies have committed crimes as terrible as those committed by 19th-20th century colonial powers.
New Zealand genocided it’s native populations the same way America and Canada did.
I mean yes those are all cases of European settler colonialism. Your point?
China has an Uyghur genocide
Yeah but the Uighur genocide is downright peanuts compared to anything you or I brought up in this conversation. Now I’m sure China has stuff that could be brought up here, but that’s not it.
I can give you similar dirt on most countries.
Then please do, because so far you’re only going for low hanging fruits that are rightly famous for their horribleness. How does this apply to places like Syria, Afghanistan or Nepal?
it remains a neocolonial force today.
Yes, which is why I said supporting Britain is problematic in the same way supporting the British Empire would’ve been problematic, just less so because modern Britain isn’t killing millions of people every year, only thousands.
There’s no one Muslim empire so you’ll need to be more specific. Also there’s a pretty big difference between “normal” levels of mass killings and rapes and what European colonial powers were getting up to. Things that bad tend to get pretty famous, see: the Mongols.
Imperial Japan was also a 19th-20th century colonial power so okay? My whole argument is that not all societies have committed crimes as terrible as those committed by 19th-20th century colonial powers.
I mean yes those are all cases of European settler colonialism. Your point?
Yeah but the Uighur genocide is downright peanuts compared to anything you or I brought up in this conversation. Now I’m sure China has stuff that could be brought up here, but that’s not it.
Then please do, because so far you’re only going for low hanging fruits that are rightly famous for their horribleness. How does this apply to places like Syria, Afghanistan or Nepal?
Yes, which is why I said supporting Britain is problematic in the same way supporting the British Empire would’ve been problematic, just less so because modern Britain isn’t killing millions of people every year, only thousands.
Nope, that’s America. Britain is third IIRC.
All of them, quite literally.
No such thing as “normal” levels of mass killings and rape.
My argument is that all societies have these things in their history. Not the goalpost of my argument.
Wow. It’s genocide. Period.
Point stands, regardless if that’s true or not. Britain is still neocolonial.
Syria and Afghanistan were both part of the Muslim empire.