Why didn't colonists convert Islamic African countries to Christian ones?

Why didn't colonists convert Islamic African countries to Christian ones?

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They clearly christianised most of the other ones as you can see

Islam is harder to convert because they have a set scripture that is widely distributed and can be easily acquired by most Muslims. The religions they converted were largely oral, and when they did have a scripture it was either burnt or simply lost to time, hence why many of them ended up converting to Christianity.

Because peer pressure is easier to put on Pagans then

Even then this map is kidney ehh.. because many of those Christian are in name only or put a shit ton of folk religion and beliefs in it. Same applies to Islam in Islams case there was the whole you'll be shunnd by your family if you convert while pagan>Christian it's "hey you want to be Christian right like everyone else?/you want to be treated marginally better?"

Like in many parts of Africa Muslim and Christian's freely intermarry a lot and you have many multi religious households.

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>half of ethiopia is Muslim
What?

the same reason why they failed to christianise, China, India, and Southeast Asia (except Philippine)
The more civilised they are, the more difficult they are to convert

You do realize Ethiopia expanded during the Scrambles for Africa right. The Christian part is the core that has been Ethiopian for millenia. Communist Somalia even invaded Communist Ethiopia in the Ogaden war for most of the muzzy region

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Because the missionaries specifically said that converting people from Islam was more difficult, because they would usually be disowned by their families and communities, or worse

absolute dribble, indochina and korea has very important christian communities and you can't call them "less civilised"

they only christianised following WWII and its more has to do with post war reconstruction and westernisation rather than colonisation
very different cases

We're getting slow on the draw in our old age. Should've been the second post.

Islamic polities filled a different niche to the late 19th century colonial powers.

apostasy is punishable by death in those backwards shitholes

Because Islam is the one true faith,

Map is a bit off because Eritrea is over half christian but Ethiopia in the present is here because the northern Habesha groups expanded down and to the east.

Some regions of Ethiopia have 99% christians like amhara zone and some 99% muslim like the somali zone

If the Habesha groups broke off they'd probably be one of the highest percentage of Christian nations in the world

French Republic is anticlerical, and thus was againt Catholic missionaries, instead the French Republic Suficized Africa.

>absolute dribble, indochina and korea has very important christian communities and you can't call them "less civilised"
Compared to parts of China or Japan, you certainly can.

Because it's better not to piss off the local Mullahs so that you can actually exploit the country for economic benefit

Islam is highly resistant to conversion, because of its rule that anyone who abandons Islam must be put to death.

how?
the koreans were mimicking the manchus while hans were still shitting in the streets

French never tried to convert Muslims, they actively utilized Muslim religious leaders and.societies to maintain power.

لاَ إِكْرَاهَ فِي الدِّينِ (There is no compulsion in religion), meaning, "Do not force anyone to become Muslim, for Islam is plain and clear, and its proofs and evidence are plain and clear.

The Han are still shitting in the streets.

exactly, so much for "civilized society" kek

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam

They converted lots of Kabyle berbers in Algeria to Protestantism and some in Morocco

Idk, Islam promotes white supremacy a lot.
While white Christian wanted to end slavery of black Christians, white-Arab Muslims wanted, and still do, to apply slavery to black Muslims.

The Arabs are 100x more racist than 1960s America. In Mauritania the 30% Arab population use the 70% black population as slaves. While people in the Middle-East and Hijaz called black people Ahbeeds, slaves.

Albert Speer even wrote in his memoirs that Hitler wished the Muslims won at Tours/Pontiers and that the Germanic races inherited Islam and it's white supremacy to conquer the world.

agreeing with not sure about white supremacy since >>>white
but Islam is a much easier governable hierarchy than some weird tribal clusterfuck (or worse, a democracy) so why fix what ain't broke