Posted on 10/27/2001 6:33:03 AM PDT by ml/nj
From Chapter 1, Historical Outline:
In the year 622, on the invitation of the Ansar - a group of pagans converted to Islam - Muhammad and his small band of followers left Mecca for Yathrib (Medina). The population then consisted of polytheistic clans, of Jewish tribes that had long been established in Arabia, and Arabs converted to Judaism. ...
The arrival of Muhammad and his followers provoked no opposition from the Jews. ...
In 624 Muhammad, joined by more followers, called upon the Qaynuqa, one of the Jewish tribes of Medina, to recognize his prophetic mission. When they refused, he besieged and overcame them. On the intercession of one of their protectors - a recent convert to Islam - their lives were spared, but they were expelled from the city, their lands and a part of their possessions being confiscated by the Muslims. The following year the Jewish Nadir tribe suffered a similar fate: Muhammad burned down their palm groves and divided all their fields and houses among the community of Believers. [footnote]
In 627 the Meccans sent a united force to lay siege to the Muslims in Medina, but they withdrew suddenly on a stormy night without fighting. However, guided by the angel Gabriel, Muhammad then turned his host against the Jewish tribe of the Qurayza who had been neutral during the seige. Because the Jews refused conversion, Muhammad attacked and overwhelmed them. Trenches were then dug in the marketplace of Medina, and the Jews - six to nine hundred of them, according to traditional Muslim sources - were led forth in batches and decapitated. All the menfolk perished in this way, with the exception of one convert to Islam. The Prophet then divided the women, children, houses, and chattels among the Muslims.[footnote]
... In 628, taking advantage of a treaty of nonbelligerency (Hudaybiya) with the Meccans[footnote], he attacked the oasis of Khaybar, one hundred and forty kilometers northwest of Medina, cultivated by another Jewish tribe. The assailants came to the oasis at night and in the morning attacked the peasants as they were coming out to work in the fields, carrying spades and baskets.[footnote] Their palm groves were burned down. After a siege lasting month and a half, the inhabitants surrendered under the terms of a treaty known as the dhimma. According to the agreement Muhammad allowed the Jews to continue cultivating their oasis, on the condition that they ceded to him half of their produce; he also reserved the right to break the agreement and expel them whenever he wished.[footnote] Subsequently, all the Jewish and Christian communities of Arabia submitted to the Muslims under the terms of a dhimma similar to that granted at Khaybar. ...
The more I read about Islam, the lower my opinion of it goes.
ML/NJ
This ancient Jewish writer is also careful to list the twelve Ishmaelite tribes, and he noted their territorial area: "They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria." Some of their settlement or tribal names such as Kedar, Tema, Dumah, and Nebaioth (the Nabateans) were known in historical records for two thousand years (Genesis 25:12-18). There were Ammonites and Moabites from Abraham's nephew Lot (Genesis 19:37-38). Other tribes such as the Midianites (Kenites) originated from Abraham's second wife Keturah (Genesis 25:1-6; Exodus 3:1; Numbers 10:29; Judges 1:16; 6:1), and the Edomite tribes were traced back to Esau (36:1-43). The Bible records constant contacts and skirmishes between the children of Israel and these Ishmaelites, Midianites, Ammonites, Edomites, Moabites, Amalekites and other tribes from the east (Exodus 17:8-14; Deuteronomy 2:5; Judges 3:12-13; 6:1, 3; 11:4,12-18; 1 Samuel 15:5, 6; Jeremiah 25:23, 24; Joel 3:8).
__Isn't it great that God has blessed them with all that oil?
Assassins of Satan from day 1. They have never been content to live along side Christian or Jews without killing them.
The customer reviews on Amazon are enlightening in that they paint a clearer picture of what we are up against. Their prophet, Moewhatshisname, was clearly evil and probably psychotic.
Well, look at it this way. Sooner or later the energy-dependence on oil will go away. And the Arabs produce nothing but oil. Except for a few dates, perhaps. They have no technology, no creativity, no natural resources except for poisonous crud, and not even scenery. They don't have industry, and they wouldn't know how to muster a workforce if they had. They have press, of a kind - to distribute their irrational ranting. They have an educational system, which seems devoted mostly to dispersing hate of mostly everything.
Blessed? I'd say cursed, good and proper ;).
Islam must look within instead of blaming Jew all the time. Might do you some good too.
I find your stance on Israel to be not only disgusting, but simply not thought out.
In any kind of comparison between Israel, that is Jewish culture, and the Arab countries, that is Arab culture, it is Israel which embodies the values of "Western" civilization (in fact, one can make the simple case that it wasn't "Greek" thought, but rather _Biblical_ thought which was the fountainhead of the "Western" world).
It's not Jewish culture that wraps women in rags. It's not Jewish culture that walks children across mine fields. It's not Jewish culture that's built around "royalty" and "subjects."
You are some kind of monster.
Mark W.
Lol. What do they make in Saudi then? Veils? Decorations of dried camel droppings? Tents? Do you have any Saudi inventions to brag about?
C'mon and enlighten me. Tell me about the diverse developments of civilization in Saudi Arabia. Oh, and any activity run by westerners doesn't count.
Sounds like a swell place. I'd sure like to see its many wonders. Tell me, how do I get a tourist visa?
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