Ohh please don't give this revisionists and marxists excuse again. This gimmick is too old dear. Anyways I can't blame you for this as this 'knowledge' has been imparted on you by so-called 'nationalists' run Shakhas. This is what has been said about your source of knowledge. [They(RSS) blatantly propagate that Islam spread on the strength of sword, it is a violent religion, and lakhs of people have sacrificed their lives to save the attacks on Ram temple. There is a subtle attempt to undermining of the acts of violence done by RSS swaymsevaks, like Gandhi's date of birth is mentioned but his death and how he was murdered by Godse does not find any mention.
Non-sequitor.
I'm as much as RSS educated as much you are a madarsah graduate. So lets desist from our "sources of education".
Again quoting marxists are we ?"
Socialist, secular Bharat.
Moreover instead of relying on marxists who would love to portray the Islamic conquest of India as purely out of red-roses and french kisses - not out of love for Islam, but out of hatred for Hinduism - why not we refer what the Muslim historians themselves say about how the various Ghazis indulged themselves in the glorious act of culling the heathens ?
Why not we refer to the likes of Tabiqat-i-Nasri, the chachnama, the chronicles of Mahmud Ghazni by Al-Berouni, the preserved firmans of Aurangazeb, the works of RC Majumdar etc....Or they were all RSS graduates too ?
That the 16 times Somnath temple was demolished, that Kashi Vishwanath temple was demolished, that the temple in Mathura was demolished etc were all works of imagination of RSS shakhas..
Also since we are quoting western historians please read about what Will Durant has to say about the Islamic conquest of India.
Mate you are treading on a sticky wicket here trying to defend the indefensible.
"No nation can move forward, unless it squarely faces its past. The courage to remember helps us not to repeat the same mistakes and to build a better future for our children" - Sri Ravishankar.
Even the father of our nation(India) Mahatma Gandhi made a famous statement which I am sure you are not made aware of this in your molding as a 'nationalist' of course in Shakha which goes like this.
Everyone knows about Gandhiji's sudden love for Islam starting with his pioneering work of mixing religion with politics ala the Khilafat movement. Also while we are at it, why not talk about Gandhiji's insistence to dissolve the Congress and also his "views" on banning conversions in India ?
And there are many more sources and I can go on and on. And since you are so adamant that Islam spread by Sword.
First of all I'm not concerned about how Islam spread to Indonesia or Malaysia as that is not my country. I'm more concerned about Islam's spread in India. The point I'm making is it is fruitless to deny that the sword did not play a role in spread of Islam in India, considering that it was MBQ and his sword that first brought Islam to North India. No one denies that Sufis also played a role in spreading of Islam like in Bengal or arab traders as in Kerala. But to say that the sword "did not absolutely" play any role in spread of Islam is only cheating yourself, to deny that feeling of being weak and capitulating.