Muhammed exterminated an entire Jewish tribe. I agree it was barbaric and wrong, but they were not killed for being Jewish. They were killed for breaking a pact with Muhammad.
And tell me why they wouldn't be hostile to the new faith & break pacts? They were living in a land where they had previously enjoyed complete equality with the Pre Islamic pagan majority, they had to pay no special taxes & even intermarried with pagans, which is all evident from Islamic sources.
Heard of Kaab Ibn Al Ashraf, the leader of a Jewish tribe who was murdered on Muhammad's orders? Well, his mother was a Jewish woman, father an Arab pagan, & according to halacha he was a Jew. He was apparently raised Jewish too, for he followed his mother's faith & became Head of his mother's tribe. Will all this be possible in today's Saudi? Will a Jewish woman be allowed to marry a Saudi Muslim man
& raise her kids as Jews?Now suddenly a new man called Muhammad came on the scene & proclaimed himself the Jews' Promised Messiah, which in itself is annoying, but doesn't deserve a war, but to add insult to injury he also proclaimed an additional tax-called jizya on the Jews should they not accept his messiahship.
The Jews could see the complete tolerance they'd enjoyed in Saudi being replaced by partial tolerance. How would today's Muslims in U.K. like it, if say the BNP came to power, forbade Muslims intermarrying non Muslims & gave them the option of converting to Anglicanism or paying a special tax?
For both the pagans, & to a lesser extent the Jews, Muhammad's arrival on the scene as a self proclaimed Messiah was a calamity.
Muhammad's Quran gave idolaters only two options- conversion or death & he converted the pagans by smashing their idols & threatening to kill them if they came out of their houses to protect their idols. Even when after his death, ridda(apostasy) wars broke out amongst pagans eager to cast off the noose of Islam, they were ruthlessly suppressed. These ridda wars are evidence that even after all the coercion, Islam hadn't really been accepted by the newly converted, they continued to seethe inwardly & were on the lookout for the first opportunity to rid themselves of the faith.
For the Jews, it was a deterioration from their previous status as equal citizens to second class citizens. Henceforth, no Jewish woman could easily marry a Saudi man, like Kaab Ibn Al Ashraf's mother had done
& raise her children as Jews according to what Jewish Law taught They also had to pay a special tax
simply for remaining Jews.Defeated people never write their history, for them its a time of darkness-yet even from the history we can glean from Islamic sources- we see how the Meccan idolaters were forcibly proselytized & Jews reduced to eternal subservience by the new faith called Islam. All this was done, not by some misguided followers of Muhammad, like Jesus' followers' had done-but by Muhammad himself.
P.S. The Arab pagans were tolerant of apostasy too, which is why Khadija's cousin Waraqa Nawfal had converted to Christianity, & lived happily in Saudi. Today any Saudi convert to Christianity would be
according to Muhammad's laws.
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