Re: banu qurayzah: Re: Interesting thread

[Scott Saylors]

Gilberto Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Convenience of the definition isn't really the issue. Whether you call
it "genocide" or whether you call it "picking flowers" it is still
clear that a certain policy of killing certain nations is found in the
Jewish Torah, but that the same behavior is clearly prohibited by
Islamic rules and conditions for warfare.

 

In reply:

 

Deuteronomy chronicles the eradication of an ethnic group. By today's standard it is "genocide"

 

The story of the banu Quraysh chronicles the eradication of an ethnic group. By today's standard it is "genocide".

 

That in the first instance the chldren were killed and in the second instance they were absorbed into another ethnicity with no way to keep their original identification is a nuance.

 

I agree it matters to some extent, and I think that represents a shift in moral value of life, does it not?

 

But in both examples a generation later none of the Canaanites and none of the Quraysh existed.

 

Regards,

Scott

 

 

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