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[The book of the Mohammeden Death Cult is a brutal read and makes atrocities not an exception and a crime that a civilized army fights to limit and restrain but instead makes it a part of the expression of their cult faith and pleasing to their cult’s form of deity and founder.]

Committing atrocities against the conquered has a long history. Alexander and Caesar butchered the defeated, sold the remainder into slavery. Vikings, of course, sacked monasteries and churches, took large numbers of slaves. That’s how wars were fought back in the day, for fun and profit.

The Torah itself has people killing the conquered and taking captives as slaves. The rabbinate, and Christian clergy, have moved away from that by saying that those were times in which God spoke directly to the people involved in indubitable ways, so gave them a pass, while proscribing such acts for current day fighting men. Islam has, unfortunately, been less prone to reform.

Still, the actions of Muslim soldiers on the Allied side were a minor blemish, atrocity-wise, relative to what Axis troops did. In Ethiopia, Italians gassed the locals, butchered hundreds of thousands of civilians. More relevant, Italians murdered tens of thousands of Arabs during their North African campaigns. It’s likely the Arabs were just getting a little payback.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_war_crimes#Pacification_of_Libya
[In 1923, Benito Mussolini embarked upon a pacification of Libya campaign to consolidate control over the Italian territory of Libya and Italian forces began to occupy large areas of Libya in order to allow Italian colonists to rapidly settle in it. They were met with resistance by the Senussi who were led by Omar Mukhtar. Civilians suspected of collaboration with the Senussi were executed. Refugees from the fighting were subject to bombing and strafing by Italian aircraft. In 1930, in northern Cyrenaica, 20,000 Bedouins were relocated and their land was given to Italian settlers. The Bedouins were forced to march across the desert into concentration camps. Starvation and other poor conditions in the camps were rampant and the internees were used for forced labour, ultimately leading to the death of nearly 4,000 internees by the time they were closed in September 1933.[1] Over 80,000 Cyrenaicans died during the Pacification in all.]