The Muslim invasion of India and subsequent purges turned Buddhism into a worldwide faith through the spread of refugees and killed an estimated hundred million people.
Hindus know that Islamic violence has been a problem for centuries, well before the West was a world power.
Islam’s War Against Buddhism By: Dhammajarat
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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The West once knew that Islamic violence was the source of nearly all the strife in the world, but after 1400 it was mostly forgotten.