Conversion theology alone does not produce colonial genocide

Evidence

Nowhere in Dussel’s account do we find a convincing solution to the challenge he posed: if the ego conquiro mediated the ego extermino in European Christianity, then why did the former never “succeed” in yielding the same effects in Chinese, Indian, Muslim, and other contexts? Why did the ego conquiro of Islam, which fully shared the concept and practice of conversion with Christianity, never lead to ego extermino? — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 171

Categorization

• QUESTION: The puzzle of why Christian conversion doctrine yielded colonial extermination while Islamic conversion did not is worth chasing into comparative colonial histories.
• XREF: Connects to debates about whether Islam’s record as a colonial power differed from Christian Europe’s, relevant to the reader’s broader decolonial reading.