On 10/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "There is no justification for genocide, for the wholesale killing of
> men, women and children of an entire ethnic group in the Quran.
> "Ordinary" warfare where you make sure not to kill non-combatants,
> where you allow the enemy to surrender, where you cease hostilities
> when your opponent does, etc. is not the same thing as the genocides
> commanded in the Bible."
> So what do you make of the massacre of the Banu Qurayza?
In the OT case, the groups living in the promised land before the Jews
got there, had done little to the Jews to bother or attack them. And
at least the commandments in Deuteronomy were for total killing. And
it was a permanent commandments in the Torah. (If you look at a list
of the 613 commandments of the Torah, the several commandments to
commit genocide are there as policy)
In terms of Banu Quraizah, that was a one time thing done in response
to specific actions by that tribe. They broke a treaty that they had
with the Muslims. A siege was put on their community. When they
surrended, some kind of arbitration had to occur to decide what was to
be done to them. They agreed on their own judge (who was not the
prophet) and the judge declared that the men should be killed. The
women and children were spared. It was certainly harsh. But it wasn't
genocide.
-Gilberto
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