Yes Butshikan was an responsible for the islamization of kashmir...I think I've posted the same earlier on this thread.
And I do believe that atleast half the population of muslims that exists in India today are muslims because they were forcibly converted at some point of time.
The Arabs came to conquer Sindh
under command of Muhammad bin
Qasim in 711 CE. This was an easy
task, as the people of Sindh had
been practicing Buddhism and
Hindu ahimsa (non-violence)
[citation needed] for many years,
and battle was sinful. The Arab
Muslims quickly destroyed the
Sindhi forts and conquered Sindh.
Many Hindus chose to flee Sindh
and move to Punjab and Kutch.
Those that stayed behind were
asked to convert to Islam. For those
that did not comply to this request,
heavy taxes were levied on them
and their properties were taken from
them.
The Jizya (poll tax) was the most
important factor in the mass
conversion to Islam, the tax paid by
all non-Muslims (Dhimmis ) in
Islamic ruled states In
the 8th century, under
administration of the Muslim Arabs ,
heavy taxation moves large
numbers of Coptic Christians to
convert to Islam in North Africa.
And also with the Zoroastrians
living under Muslim's rule in
ancient Persia,
Sahih al-Bukhari ,
Mughal ruler Aurangzeb cherished
the ambition of converting India
into a land of Islam. For this, he
encouraged forced religious
conversions and destroyed
thousands of Hindu temples during
his reign. [67][68] During Tipu
Sultan 's invasion of Malabar in the
late 18th century, he forcefully
converted over 400,000 Hindus to
Islam. [69][70][71] During the Moplah
Riots of 1921 in Kerala , Muslim
Mappilas forcibly converted
thousands of Hindus to Islam [72]
and killed all those who refused to
apostatise. [73] During the Noakhali
genocide of Hindus in 1946, several
thousand Hindus were forcibly
converted to Islam by Muslim mobs.
[74][75] In Bangladesh , the
International Crimes Tribunal tried
and convicted several leaders of the
Islamic Razakar militias, as well as
Bangladesh Muslim Awami league
(Forid Uddin Mausood), of war
crimes committed against Hindus
during the 1971 Bangladesh
atrocities. The charges included
forced conversion of Bengali Hindus
to Islam. [76] In the 1998 Prankote
massacre, 26 Kashmiri Hindus were
beheaded by Islamist militants after
their denial of converting into Islam.
The militants struck when the
villagers refused demands from the
gunmen to convert to Islam and
prove their conversion by eating
beef.
Don't know whether OP wanted only leaders which had positive effect from Indian POV to be posted ( in which case i am sorry).
But one King which had and is still having a debilitating effect on India and about whom, not a single line is mentioned in our history books is
Sultan Sikander Butshikan who would make Aurangzeb,Firuz Tuglaq, and Sikandar Lodhi look like secular pacifists.
He converted whole of Kashmir to Islam at swordpoint, a event which is still causing geopolitical problem for India.
This also puts to rest a common misconception that Sufi muslims are less Jihad loving than their Wahabii cousins.
Also a misconception of Pakistanis that should be sent to it's well deserved grave is that " majority of muslims were converted by Sufi saints". The sufi part may be correct but saint part is not.
It also provides a comparative analysis of Sword vs Saint mode of conversion.
Rajasthan: Saint mode = 8% muslims
Kashmir: Sword mode = 99% muslims.
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Saheli @
Sidak @
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Dem!god
this is what happening today...
In Jammu & Kashmir, the Ladakh
Buddhist Association has said:
"There is a deliberate and organised
design to convert Kargil's
Buddhists to Islam. In the last four
years, about 50 girls and married
women with children were taken
and converted from village Wakha
alone. If this continues unchecked,
we fear that Buddhists will be
wiped out from Kargil in the next
two decades or so. Anyone
objecting to such allurement and
conversions is harassed."
