https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Zoroastrians
Correct me on any of this. The last Persian Empire was the Sassanid Empire which came to an end after the rise of Islam.
Zoroastrians began to be persecuted, they had been subject to public humiliation through dress regulations, being labeled as najis and excluded in the fields of society, education and work, they were insulted by tax collecters.
By the orders of Yazid-ibn-Mohalleb so many Persians were beheaded in Gorgan that their blood mixed with water would energize the millstone to produce as much as one day meal for him, as he had vowed. Extent of his brutality represented itself by running watermills by people's blood for three days and he fed his army with the bread made from that very bloody flour
Perhaps this is why the enslaved Persian artisan assassinated the Caliph.
My question: Why was this done? Why were they persecuted like this? I thought those who paid Jizya would be given full protection and that no one would be forced to join Islam yet many of these people were treated poorly so as to make them join Islam. The rest migrated to India.
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