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Because hindus are not of the people of the book (jews, christians and zoroastrians), they weren't offered the choice of becoming dhimmis (pay jizya, 2nd class status), but the choices were convert to islam or muslims would fight you.
Jizya does not mean second class status; and non-People of the Book are not forced to convert (neither are People of the Book).
https://quran.com/9:29/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir
> Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth among the People of the Scripture, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
> Paying Jizyah is a Sign of Kufr and Disgrace
> Therefore, Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of Dhimmah or elevate them above Muslims, for they are miserable, disgraced and humiliated.
If you expect moderators to adjudicate complex questions of religious scholarship, we can't: we're unqualified, and it's not our job. We prefer to stick to things that (a) are our job, which (b) we're qualified for. Those tasks are altogether more mundane, such as telling HN users they're not allowed to put down entire religions or each other.
No, the battle itself isn't genocide. But generally invading a country and defeating the defenders is a precursor to slaughtering civilians, aka. genocide.
In the case of the Middle East, they were Greek/Syriac/Coptic and Christian, then they were conquered, then they were Arab and Muslim. Demographic changes like that that accompany an invasion aren't exactly a coincidence.