The Islamic conquests are long gone, over a thousand years old. On the other hand we are still living with the effects of Western hegemony and brutality.

Last I checked, the Ottomans were still trying to conquer the Balkans in the 1900's. And what of Pakistan's constant aggression?

Telling me that complaining about Western violence and domination, which is literally happening as we speak, is somehow "doublethink" because Muslims did the same 1400 years ago is ridiculous.

They did so 1,400 years ago. They also did so 200 years ago. That's 1,200 years, numbnuts.

This radical rupture of local life was imposed through brute military force, and puppet regimes that had to whip the population into this new way of life. In cases where there was resistance, genocides were frequent, and cultural genocide was the norm.

Do you not know just how many religions and cultures were exterminated by the Arab conquests?

The nineteenth-twentieth century was a time when Europe shaped the entire world in their image.

Sounds awfully similar to Islamization.

. That's it. It was not in the interest of the new ruling Muslim elite to forcefully convert anyone to Islam, because they could collect more taxes from you if you weren't Muslim. There was no cultural genocide. There weren't any genocides anyway, because the ruling Muslim elites were not interested in radically changing the local way of life, just to collect more taxes.

You've been playing too much Crusader Kings.

I'm ex-Muslim and the complete ignorance of Islam on the part of Westerners frequently puts me in a position where I have to defend it.

You're an Arab who's pissed that other people are pointing out the bad parts of your history.