It was a "gift" that to many they had no right to give. The mostly Muslim natives of the area certainly dint want to gift anything lest of all there land but they couldn't stop it. the land itself wasint even recognized as a country even though it had people who lived there for generations. Having said that its a grey situation theres fault on both sides those natives weren't all together civil or peaceful. But anyway id say theres no innocent religion. There could be a blood thirsty fanatic jew the same as a Christan, a Muslim or whatever.