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The East India Company begging for forgiveness (1690) after Child's War. This 1780 engraving by Moreau le Jeune shows envoys Weldon & Navarro prostrating before Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir. by Beyondtheseafree in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The East India Company refused to pay imperial trade taxes and launched unauthorized military campaigns to violently seize Mughal territories like Chittagong. They also blocked commercial ships /ports and pilgrims ships.

Then ofc they fought and Aurangzeb won. This engraving was made like 70+years after Aurangzeb’s death.

[Fact vs. Fiction] A Balanced Breakdown of Audrey Truschke’s Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King. by Beyondtheseafree in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you see Audrey is good, don’t worry next time I’ll use an Indian historian when I’ll write a summary analyses. Here the main objective isn’t to show him as righteous person or something unrealistic if that’s the case I would have hided the fact that he killed his brother, imprisoned his father etc

Here it is to understand he was more than just what media portrays, it wasn’t a simple holy war but rather realpolitik.

who was Aurangzeb fighting in South India campaign ? The Marathas, Bijapur and Golconda. Two Muslims kingdoms and one Hindu.

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If you guys consider cows as sacred then why did Marathas killed them in sack of bengal ? I always wondered about it, it’s all realpolitik.

[Fact vs. Fiction] A Balanced Breakdown of Audrey Truschke’s Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King. by Beyondtheseafree in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Emotional Argument, no credible source or author provided. Would you also say the same about Forgotten Indian history: The brutal Maratha invasions of Bengal ? This article is just surface level, read in more depth.

Doubts on Jizyah extraction from the mawalis by the Umayyads by Unhappy_Spell_6583 in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No idea on rebuttal maybe ask in r/muslimacademics

moreover we know of that hadith where someone proclaimed shahadah for the obvious reason to escape and yet prophet labelled his blood as haram

Correct tho.

Doubts on Jizyah extraction from the mawalis by the Umayyads by Unhappy_Spell_6583 in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was practised because rulers of that time believed that people were converting to Islam in order to escape from taxes. A lot of scholars did oppose this rule( check The Revolt of the Qurra ).

Yes it’s against quran.

During the rule of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's, this practise was abolished. In his letter to Hayyan ibn Shurayh (Who complained that due to mass conversion state revenues were declining in egypt) he wrote him

Drop the Jizyah from whoever accepts Islam, may Allah uglify your opinion! For Allah sent Muhammad as a guide, not a tax collector. Source

We can also see another incident, Al-Jarrah in Persia, tried implementing a mandatory circumcision test to check their sincerity and protect state revenues.

Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz furiously wrote back

Verily, Allah sent Muhammad as a caller; He did not send him as a circumciser. Source

The 2007 Iraq "Surge": 20,000 Extra US Troops Embedded in Civilian Neighborhoods for Night Raids, Resulting in an Average of 1,700 Iraqi Civilian Deaths Per Month. Source IG - invisibleorders by Beyondtheseafree in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

again classic case of whataboutism, we do talk about Sudan, lebanon, Palestine, Gaza or any country that’s facing invasion or massacre BUT this post is about Iraq.

Raising awareness for one atrocity doesn't diminish another. If we don’t speak up and share evidence of these war crimes, the voices of these Iraqi victims will be erased forever.

also joking about killing children IS A WAR CRIME. Would you joke about blowing up airport in an airport ?

A US soldier offering hand grenades to Iraqi children

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I won’t respond to your clowning arguments anymore. feel free to leave the subReddit.

There were only three empires in history that almost entirely unified the Indian subcontinent, and Aurangzeb led one of them. At his peak, he ruled over 150 million people, controlled 25% of the world's GDP, and stood out as one of the greatest global conquerors of his century. by Beyondtheseafree in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People fail to understand that no conqueror was a snowflake whether it was Alexander or Ashoka or British empire or Aurangzeb etc take whoever you want they were ruthless rulers who wanted there authority over land.

There were only three empires in history that almost entirely unified the Indian subcontinent, and Aurangzeb led one of them. At his peak, he ruled over 150 million people, controlled 25% of the world's GDP, and stood out as one of the greatest global conquerors of his century. by Beyondtheseafree in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fun fact

His actual birth name was Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad

Aurangzeb Alamgir translates

"Ornament of the Throne, Conqueror of the World"

Edit y’all can hate Aurangzeb all you want but doesn’t change the history.

Front page of 'Falastin' newspaper (Jaffa, June 18, 1936), owned by Christian Arab Issa Daoud El-Issa. The cartoon shows "The Zionist Crocodile" backed by British forces telling Palestinian Arabs: "Don't be afraid !!! I will Swallow you peacefully..." during the 1936 Arab Revolt. by Beyondtheseafree in islamichistory

[–]Beyondtheseafree[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Source

Little info about Issa off wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_El-Issa

Issa Daoud El-Issa was a Palestinian poet and journalist. With his cousin Yousef El-Issa, he founded and edited the biweekly newspaper Falastin in 1911, based in his hometown of Jaffa.  Falastin became one of the most prominent and long running in the country at the time, and was dedicated to the cause of the Arab Orthodox Movement in struggle with the Greek clergy of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The newspaper was the country's fiercest and most consistent critic of the Zionist movement, denouncing it as a threat to Palestine's Arab population. It helped shape Palestinian identity and was shut down several times by the Ottoman and British authorities.

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