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Any ideas why they converted? I wasn’t aware of this, and I don’t see that it matters…I’m just curious.
A lot of it was forced conversion. There's a long history of religious and cultural oppression of various peoples in the region. You could probably find some online documentaries about it, though more than a few likely view the events through a pro-Zionist lens.
Christian crusades followed by Islam doing what Islam is designed to do.
Mass conversion of populations are not common. It's either conquest, oppression or rebellion.