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I've read that when Zoroastrianism was still a significant minority religion in Persia, Muslims would torture and kill their dogs in order to provoke revolts which they could then suppress and forceably convert the survivors. Is this a probable tactic and of so, was it used against other minorities?

by /u/Corydonis in /r/AskHistorians

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