http://www.ozpolitic.com/wiki/index.php?title=Muslims_Promote_Genocide#Jews_Inte...http://www.ozpolitic.com/wiki/index.php?title=Muslims_Promote_Genocide#Jews_Plan...http://www.ozpolitic.com/wiki/index.php?title=Muslims_Promote_Genocide#Relevence...This has been a recurring theme in Gandalf's efforts to defend Muhammad's genocide of one Jewish tribe, and his expulsion of two others from Medina. He repeatedly insisted that the Jews and their allies intended genocide of the Muslims, ethnically cleansing the Muslims, annihilating the Muslims, even annihilating their own city. He has never backed this claim up and there is no historical evidence to support it. This is essentially an effort to portray Muhammad's genocide and uncompromising lust for power as self defence.
Genocide would be out of character for the people and the time period. Until Muhammad came along, the Arabian Peninsula was literally a multicultural and multireligious society, with complex 'blood money' and 'eye for an eye' style customs for resolving disputes between tribes and avoiding the sort of slaughter Muhammad engaged in. In fact, Muhammad was supposedly invited to Medina to find an even more peaceful approach to conflict resolution.
This accusation is most commonly used to excuse Muhammad's genocide of the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe. The Meccans, with whom the Jews are accused of conspiring, went home after one battle (the battle of Uhud, two years earlier) declaring victory. They were in a position to press their advantage, and conduct the genocide they are accused of planning, but instead returned home because they believed Muhammad had been killed and that this would be sufficient to stop Muhammad raiding their caravans.
polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 9
th, 2016 at 1:58pm:
My views are not unconscionable to any reasonable person. It would be justifiable to execute traitors who broke a treaty in an effort to commit genocide against the people you pledged loyalty too.
polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 4
th, 2016 at 10:23pm:
FD at any time in the past 3 years of flogging this dead horse, did you ever actually grasp the concept that I never once argued in support of slaughtering jews, but rather slaughtering a tribe who broke a treaty and conspired with an enemy who was trying to commit genocide?
polite_gandalf wrote on Apr 9
th, 2014 at 11:25am:
When the Meccans abandoned the siege and went home, the Qurayza knew the game was up. Their treachery exposed, they immediately barricaded themselves inside their fort. Muhammad, having barely survived an attempted genocide, wasn't about to let one of the conspirators in that attempted genocide to remain a threat. Having let another hostile tribe leave with all their possessions and watched as they launched hostilities against Medina, Muhammad wasn't about to make the same mistake.
polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 3
rd, 2013 at 3:00pm:
I'm looking for a source that contradicts the context of the killings I have provided in my article - that the tribe committed treason, conspired to anhialate the muslims, and agreed to surrender on the condition they be judged on jewish law - which they were.
Gandalf apparently suggesting he would accept the slaughter of Muslims for breaking an agreement:
polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 16
th, 2016 at 7:28pm:
If a tribe of jews conquered a tribe of muslims who betrayed an agreement with them - and someone suggested mass execution of the male population was justified, I'm not going to throw a tantrum for 4 years insisting that they are nasty wacists.
This one is about another tribe that was expelled from Medina by Muhammad prior to the battle of the trench:
polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 3
rd, 2013 at 10:32pm:
Clearly it was not one incident of molestation that led to expulsion. The muslims were fighting a war for their very existence, which they just barely survived after the battle of the trench. The three jewish tribes in question were clearly conspiring with Muhammad's enemies, who were on the verge of overrunning them. I mean come on FD, you've just recently made a lengthy and impassioned case for justifying Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians - are desperate self-defence measures to stave off genocide only acceptable when its jews that are under threat?
Links to some more examples (seeing as Gandalf hates "quote bombs" so much):
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1372771765/11#11http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1372771765/18#18http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1372771765/31#31http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1372771765/41#41http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1372771765/46#46http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1372771765/48#48http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1435390100/15#15http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1374022294/8#8http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1374022294/110#110http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1374022294/112#112They intended to "annihilate" their own city.
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1463911375/25#25