But we weren't talking about Christian, Muslim, and Jewish relations, we were talking about religious tolerance.
No this entire discussion started because of Christian and Muslim relations.
That is until you popped up with Muslims and India.
We aren't talking about that region or group which had an entirely different relationship.
Under the Sharia of the Otttoman empire the testimony of a non-Muslim against a Muslim was viewed as worthless if they were even allowed to testify against the Muslim at all.
Bull****.
Being a dhimmi was not totally played out like that.
You're adopting an entirely hardline concept and applying it to the whole.
Again, Muslims were allowed to prosteltyze in the Ottoman Empire but non-Muslims were not. What exactly do you base your assertion that Dawa was not largely practiced in the Ottoman Empire? How do you think they got all of those people to convert?
Dawa was largely practiced in a particular region for the specific purpose of influencing their power base near Europe.
It was not a common practice through out the entire empire.
WTF? That's the Jizya tax, I said Devşirme which was the institutionalized practice within the Ottoman Empire of stealing Christian Children and converting them to Islam and using them to fill the ranks of their military. If that's not a forced conversion then I don't know what is. In fact that is not only an example of forced conversion but an example of ethnic cleansing as well.
It is not ethnic cleanings.
They were not trying to homogenize the people, quite the opposite was true for the empire.
Yes that particular example is forced conversion but it in no way does not mean that the weren't intolerant of Christians.
No matter how hard you might try to paint the picture for that to be true.
lol ya o.k. forcefully expelling entire Christian Communities from their homes and their lands and then forcefully transferring them from one part of the Empire to another is not an example of forced expulsion. :roll:
Expulsion from a country for religiously prejudice reasons, is not the same as creating an economic heterogeneous population.
You know this, you're being dishonest.
They expelled entire Christian communities from their homes and their lands, that is forced population transfer which is an example of ethnic cleansing.
Bull ****.
They did it for economic reasons, not to cleanse the land of Christians.
The Ottoman Empire did the exact same things you act like uprooting entire Christian Communities and engaging in forced population transfers is somehow better than kicking people out of the country. :roll:
Yes it is entirely different.
One is meant to harm a group, the other is meant for economic and civil structure reasons.
The historical record is something which you are completely ignoring in order to illustrate some fanciful age of Islamic tolerance that never existed.
It did exist, you pull up occasional examples of intolerance and cite those as truth for the whole empire.
You're argument is based on exceptions and not the rule.