भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

be denied that they made the conversion of the Muslims to Hinduism,
absolutely impossible.
394. Before they came to India, the Arabians and other Muslims forced
the millions of Christian, Jewish and Persian populations of Iran, Turan, the
kingdoms of the middle Asia and Africa, right from Egypt to Spain, to give
up their own religious faiths and accept Islam at the point of the sword. But
these various European and Afro-Asian people never for a moment thought
themelves to be polluted, nor that their own original religion was lost to
them, simply because they took food or drink with the Muslims. The
Muslim rulers had to keep their swords constantly hanging over their heads
to enforce their allegiance to Islam, and to ensure from them the strict
observance of the Muslim religious rites and duties, for centuries together.
If, by chance, the Muslim power at any place was uprooted and completely
effaced, the forcibly converted Christians or Persians and others went over
to their original religions en masse, throwing away to the winds the green
Muslim shred of a flag and proudly fluttering their own in its stead. As
such, it was very difficult for even the Muslim powers there to keep these
unwilling converts tied to the Islamic faith, the Muslim armed soldiers had
to keep a vigilant eye on these foreign converts and to see every time if
their faith in Islam was shaken even a bit or whether they did not foment
any agitation to go back to their own religion.
395-396. On the contrary, in Spain, Greece, Serbia and other countries,
where the Muslims in their turn were forced to forsake Islam and court
Christianity on pain of death, the Christian rulers there had to keep a similar
strict watch on these Muslim converts. For the Muslims, too, never thought
that they were anyway defiled because of any food they ate from the
Christians or because they had marital or extramarital relations with them.
These forcibly converted Muslims were on the alert, to see if the ruling
power became weak at any place and immediately revolted, hoisting any
green cloth that they could catch hold of as their flag and re-entered the
Muslim fold. They would even compel, if possible, the Christians
themselves to accept Islam, and thus avenge the wrong done to them. This
experience elsewhere made the early Arabian and other Muslim invaders of
India fear at least for a century or two, that they would be obliged to use
military force alone to keep the newly converted Hindus tied down to the
Islamic faith.