abu_rashid wrote on Aug 24
th, 2009 at 12:56pm:
Grendel said,
Quote:Under Islam becoming a martyr by killing innocents is acceptable under Christianity killing innocents is not.
This simply isn't true. Islam specifically forbids killing of non-combatants. Muhammad (pbuh) clearly forbade it in his sayings.
IS THAT STATEMENT [above] TRUE?Grendel,
What abu declares above is true [AND, also false!].
Those words, are yet another deception, from another moslem.
How so?
Because, surprise, surprise, abu [as per usual], is telling a half truth,
...to un-informed, naive, non-moslems, in this forum.
The important questions we all should ask here are,
Q1.
For what reason, if it does, does ISLAM specifically forbid the killing of non-combatants?
Q2.
And, is this 'prohibition' [genuinely] because ISLAM is concerned about the 'welfare' of non-combatants? [...as is being portrayed]
Reading ISLAMIC texts selectively, i.e. reading [only] verses presented to us
by good moslems, the texts may suggest such a commendable attitude by moslem combatants, towards non-combatants.
E.G.....
The Hadith declare,
"During some of the Ghazawat of the Prophet a woman was found killed. Allah's Apostle disapproved the killing of women and children."
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith...AND,
"During some of the Ghazawat of Allah's Apostle a woman was found killed, so Allah's Apostle forbade the killing of women and children."
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith...On the face of it,
"...Allah's Apostle forbade the killing of women and children."But those verses do not infer, or reveal,
the motive/reason
, for that 'prohibition'.
I suggest that we should seek out those motives!
For some deeper understanding of this whole issue [the 'welfare' of non-combatants], let us read some further Hadith verses, related to this issue,
"The Prophet passed by me at a place called Al-Abwa or Waddan, and was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, "They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans)." "
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith...Here, clearly, Mohammed expressed no care,
whatsoever, for the 'welfare', or safety, of those non-combatants [women and children, who were non-moslems].
So, how can we resolve these seemingly inconsistent positions, from different Hadith verses?
I will suggest that the 'care' Mohammed expressed for the 'welfare' of non-combatants [who were non-moslems], was a 'care' extended for the purpose of, and related specifically to,
their material worth [ALIVE] as booty
.
i.e.
Dead non-moslem, non-combatants [women and children] are, war booty, ....LOST.A further verse in the Hadith, makes clear the fate of [women and children] 'non-combatants', after the wholesale surrender of a particular community, which Mohammed and his henchmen besieged,
"......Sa'd said, "So I give my judgment that their warriors should be killed and their women and children should be taken as captives." [i.e. war booty] The Prophet said, "You have judged according to the King's (Allah's) judgment." "
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith...N.B. And this was no community [full] of 'warriors', as is suggested above.
This was a [
wealthy] Jewish community of, mostly, metal workers, artisans, and goldsmiths.
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