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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
I do not believe that any of the diverse immigrants to either country were rampaging throughout the world bombing, slaughtering, beheading and abducting, on their way to conquering every country on the planet, in order to install one Great Caliphate', at the time though Red.
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Actually they did
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/American_Indian_Genocide
Christopher Columbus came to the New World for King (well, Queen), honor and God. His ships brought many priests to accomplish God's work. Both his own writings and those of Bartolomé de las Casas mention the thousands of murders done in the name of God, against a people who chose not to convert. A conservative estimate by anthropologist Jack Wetheford suggests that in less than 10 years, the population of the island of Hispaniola plunged from 500,000 to less than 100,000.
The "Indian Removal Act" of 1830 attempted to move roughly 50,000 Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and others from their home to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). The U.S. government did not provide any means of transportation, forcing them to walk the 2,200 miles. One can reasonably argue that the U.S. government did fully expect many of them to die on the way — especially children and the elderly. The U.S. government recorded 4,000 deaths on just one of many re-location marches among the Cherokee alone; estimates of the total death toll range from as low as 5,000 to as high as 25,000