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But can the same not be said of the Moorish invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (which was caused by a feud in the Visigoth royal family, with one side inviting the Moors for help),
I agree that the invasion of spain by the moors was less about spreading Islam and more of a political power play.
and the spread of Islam through Asia (which was spread by the Mongols who conquered the Middle East, and then took it back to Asia)?
Islam had reached india long before the Mongols swept through the middle east in the 1200s.
Some things people seem to forget, is that at that time, and up to WW2, everyone was out to carve an empire, and the reasons were rarely purely religious, we don't look upon the Visigoth invasion of Rome as a Christian invasion, despite the fact that the Visigoths were Arian Christians, whereas the Romans, at the time, were Orthodox Christians, same with the Visigoth invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, another conquest by Christians. So as Digsbe said, the reasons for invasion rarely had anything to do with the conquerer religion of choice, and a lot more to do with whatever socio-economic-dynastical powers were at play at the time.
The visigoths didn't overtly cloak their sacking of Rome within any overtly religious context--and neither the Islamic conquest of spain--I agree with you. The early islamic conquests of arabia, the byzantine levant, and north africa, however, did.