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No, it's because your education is western-centric and Islamic invasions took over the east. Eastern Christians have been subjected to genocide at the hands of Muslims for 1300 years.

Edit - really, someone is asking for a citation that the Islamic conquests happened? Next should ask for a citation that the sky is blue...

This is basic world history, like the discovery of the new world, Alexander the Great's conquests or the Roman empire...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests

And yes, it happened over 1300 years ago, the first decisive battle was the Battle of Yarmuk, year 636 CE.

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How can “genocide” apply to a voluntary religious group? And even if it could, the linked wikipedia article doesn’t seem to support your claim, either. Do you have anything else we could review?

Genocide, as defined by the UN, includes religious groups.

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

I didn’t know that, thank you! Now to find if the original claim holds up, and not just the semantics.

the linked article describes military campaigns between state armies, not genocide

Citation needed. Since year 1300 or for 1300 years? The former is closer to the truth than the latter, AFAIK.

Neither are true.

Ok, so an edit to the parent post cites my comment as an incorrect citation needed as if it's incorrect.

Another statement also claims that genocide was performed because it also includes religious groups.

None of that is wrong.

What is wrong is claiming that they actually performed genocide. They overtook, yes. Did not perform genocide. Even the cited article says, that "christian communities were dissatisfied with the change". If there was genocide, who was left to be dissatisfied?

Not a lot different from what the Christians did to non believers in the West, really.

Don't forget the crusades.

The first crusade in 1096–1099 was to drive out the muslim colonizers from the holy land

Or the soviets did to believers, for that matter

while tribal hunters simply killed for access to the best hunting grounds? Mongols killed why? IMO you can reconstruct this line of thought easily -- humans killed other humans brutally and without fail; some humans interpreted the world in divine terms and guarded fertility; Religion combines many strands with intention, while the killing for other reasons does not cease.

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