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You are making the HUGE assumption that the muzzies learned nothing from the Sepoy rebellion, that next time such a slaughter won't be deliberate, planned, co-ordinated and universal.

That's why I cited Huế, In that case it was deliberate, planed, and co-ordinated The result? Everyone with a history of cooperating with the Americans and every member of the government and every member of their families were murdered in a single night.

The Sepoy revolt isn't a piece of malicious software that can only be robotically followed to inevitable failure, it, like all other military actions, is a learning experience.

The kid fell off the bicycle in 1857, I think he can give riding it a very good go today.

I think you make a really odd assumption that Muslims (or at least Muslims outside India) look back to the glory days of the First Indian War of Independence. I have never see anything even vaguely resembling evidence this is the case.

Even Pakistanis don’t identify with it that much, because the affected areas were entirely, I believe, inside what is now India. The revolt was also most emphatically not a “Muslim revolt.” Both Muslims and Hindus participated. To the extent there was an ideology behind the Mutiny, it was an inchoate desire to return to a better past.

I have seen a lot more glorification of the Mutiny by Hindus than Muslims. Many Hindus see it as a precursor to the independence struggle. Muslims, not so much, quite probably because it wasn’t specifically Muslim in motivation.

There are examples of much more effective mass murder of intruders, notably the Sicilian Vespers and the Asiatic Vespers of Mithridates the Great.

Hue was a massacre by a conquering army of its opponents and anybody else they took a dislike to, for which unfortunately the historical precedents are far too many to cite.

It was also relatively small beer on a historical scale, with somewhere between 3000 and 6000 probably murdered. Out of roughly 1M people, that isn’t a world-historical murder rate.

You are making the HUGE assumption that the muzzies learned nothing from the Sepoy rebellion, that next time such a slaughter won't be deliberate, planned, co-ordinated and universal.

The Indian Mutiny was not pre-planned and it was not Moslem based.

It was based on that of erstwhile rulers looking to get some of their power and riches back. It had a religious dimension added due to the alleged bacon and cow fat used to grease the shell of the muskets used by the sepoys

Any reading of the Indian Mutiny will show that this was never some great "Jedi slaughter".