List of Genocides, Cultural Genocides and Ethnic Cleansings under Islam
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No. | Name | Region | Country | Who was Responsible | Period | Notes |
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1 | Arab polytheists | Arabian peninsula | Saudi Arabia | 600s AD | ||
2 | Jews | Arabian peninsula | 600s AD | |||
3 | Christians | Arabian peninsula | 600s AD | |||
Traditional Berber religion | North Africa | Arab Muslims | ||||
Zoroastrians | Persia | Arab and Persian Muslims | ||||
Hindus | Afghanistan | |||||
Buddhists | Afghanistan | |||||
Dards | Kashmir and northern Pakistan | India , Pakistan | Arab invaders, Swat princely state | c. 700 AD and 1858-1969 | Most Dards were converted to Islam[1][2]
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Hindus and Buddhists | Gandhara | Afghanistan | Mahmud of Ghazni | 998-1030 | Mass conversions and coercions.[3] | |
Hindus | India | Various Muslim invaders and rulers | 1000-1525 | The Hindu population of India fell by an estimated 60 to 80 million in this period.[4][5][6] Detailed analyses of this event and the casualties are rare. | ||
Buddhists | Bihar | India | Bakhtiyar Khilji | c.1197-1203 | Famous Buddhist monasteries and universities were also destroyed[7][8][9] | |
Christians | Anatolia | Turkey | Muslim Turks | |||
Buddhists | Maldives | c. 1200s onwards |
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Kanuri people | Kanem empire | Chad , Nigeria , Cameroon | Dunama Dabbalemi | 1203 to 1243 | All Kanuris converted to Islam as a result of a jihad.[10][11] | |
Mongol converts to Islam[12] | Delhi | India | Alauddin Khilji | 1298 | 15,000-30,000 were killed | |
Hindus | Kashmir | India , Pakistan | Sikandar Butshikan | 1389-1413 | [13][14] | |
Coptic Christians | Egypt | Mamluk Sultanate | 1300s-1517 | Rampant discrimination and persecution under the Pact of Umar forced a majority of Copts to convert to Islam.[15] | ||
Maronites and Greek Orthodox Christians | Coast of the Levant | Lebanon , Syria | Mamluk Sultanate | 1300s | These communities were expelled and their settlements were destroyed.[16] | |
Assyrian Christians | Bohtan and Hakkari | Iraq , Turkey | Badr Khan and Nurallah of Hakkari | 1843-47 | More than 1000 Christians were killed.[17] The Muslim armies destroyed several villages and took prisoners as war booty.[18] | |
Polytheists | Kafiristan | Afghanistan | 1890s | |||
Armenians and Assyrians | Eastern Turkey | Turkey | Ottoman Empire Kurdish and Turkoman irregulars |
1894–1896 | 100,000–300,000 were killed.[19]
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Armenians | Adana Vilayet | Turkey | Young Turk government under the Ottoman Empire | 1909 | 15,000–30,000 were killed.[20][21]
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Maronite Christians | Mount Lebanon | Lebanon | Ottoman Empire | 1915-1918 | The Ottomans deliberately cut off food supplies to the Maronites in order to feed their military.[22] | |
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Assyrian Christians | Turkey , Iran [23] | 1914-1918 | 200,000 to 275,000 were killed.[24][25] About half of the Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire perished.[26] | |||
Armenians | Turkey | Ottoman Empire, Young Turks | 1915-1918 or 1923 | An estimated 600,000–1,800,000 Armenians were systematically massacred.[27][28] The Turkish government currently denies the genocide. Considered the first modern genocide by scholars. | ||
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Alevi Kurds | Dersim | Turkey | 1937-38 | 13,000-40,000 killed.[29] | ||
Tibetans | Qinghai Province | China | Ma Bufang and his Muslim soldiers | 1932-41 | The motive was ethnic cleansing of Tibetans and destruction of their culture, resulting in thousands of casualties.[30][31][32][33][34] | |
Hindus | Pakistan | 1947-present | ||||
Hindus | Bangladesh | 1947-present |
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Egyptian Jews | Egypt | 1948-1957 | ||||
Iraqi and Kurdish Jews | Iraq | 1950s-1969 | [35] | |||
East Timor | Indonesia | 1975-1999 | Described as a genocide
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Chakma, Marma, Tripuri and other indigenous people | Chittagong Hill Tracts | Bangladesh | Bangladeshi army and Muslim settlers | 1977-1997 | [36][37] | |
Kashmiri Pandits | Kashmir valley | India | Kashmiri Muslim mobs and Pakistani terrorists | 1989-2001 | ||
Isaaq clan (Muslim) of Somalis | Somalia | Siad Barre | 1988-1990 | 50,000-100,000 killed (possibly up to 200,000)[38][39][40][41] | ||
Bantu people (Christians, Muslims and Traditional African religion) | Jubba Valley | Somalia | Somali militias | 1991 onwards | [42]
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Christians | Somalia | Al Shabab | 2005 onwards | [43] | ||
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Assyrians | Iraq | 1933-2014 | [44][45][46] | |||
Yazidis | Iraqi Kurdistan | Iraq | ISIS | 2014- | ||
Arab Christians, Levantines, Armenians, Arameans, Assyrians (Syriacs or Chaldeans) and Copts | Iraq , Syria , Libya | ISIS | 2014- | At least 1000 casualties.[47] Described as a genocide by EU.[48][49][50][51] |
Key:
- No color: Non-Muslims targeted
- Light green: Predominantly Muslims targeted
- Orange: Both Muslims and Non-Muslims targeted
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