Quote:Like I keep saying, it is reasonable to accuse them of collective guilt
So Islam supports collective punishment?
Quote:since at any time any individual had the opportunity to disassociate themselves from the decisions made on behalf of the tribe
The decision that was made was to not attack Muslims and in fact to support them. Why is there anny need to disassociate themselves from that?
Quote:The fact that there were only 700 in an entire tribe should be an indication of their unity of mind.
Only if your religion requires you to deliberately delude yourself. And it is simply not true that there were only 700. There were supposedly 600 to 900 able bodied adult men who were executed. How many tribes do you know of that consist only of adult men?
Quote:Seriously, you have never provided any evidence of this despite repeated requests.
That's what concubine means Gandalf. Muhammed himself took one of the wives as his concubine after chopping her husband's head off. Are you suggesting some kind of fairy tale where they fell in love and got married? I do not have to "prove" anything. Islamic texts openly admit it.
Quote:They were not trivial according to Watt, Armstrong and Mubarakpuri (Sealed Nectar) among others - they too were committing acts of war against Muhammad - including an assassination attempt.
Muhammed was paranoid about an assassination attempt. That does not mean there actually was one. He merely invented it as yet another excuse to persecute Jews and reneg on his treaty with them.
Does the sealed nectar present new evidence that was not previously available?
Quote:Well that taught the jew not to perve on women, or potentially attack women when there were no men around.
Yes, Jews must be beaten to death in order to prevent them from comitting 'potential' crimes.
Quote:Such as?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Qaynuqa
Muhammad then approached the Banu Qaynuqa, gathering them in the market place and addressing them as follows,
“O Jews, beware lest God bring on you the like of the retribution which he brought on Quraysh. Accept Islam, for you know that I am a prophet sent by God. You will find this in your scriptures and in God's covenant with you.[15]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."
Paragraph 37 has it that 'To the Jews their own expenses and to the Muslims theirs. They shall help one another in the event of any attack on the people covered by this document. There shall be sincere friendship, exchange of good counsel, fair conduct and no treachery between them.'.[22] The three local Jewish tribes were the Banu Nadir, the Banu Qurayza, and the Banu Qaynuqa. While Mohammad clearly had no prejudice against them, and appears to have regarded his own message as substantially the same as that received by Jews on Sinai,[23] tribal politics, and Mohammad's deep frustration at Jewish refusals to accept his prophethood,[24] quickly led to a break with all three. Unfortunate linguistic misunderstandings may also have given the impression, evidenced in the Quran, that the Jewish community was publicly humiliating Mohammad.[25] The Banu Qaynuqa were expelled from Medina in 624, Fred Donner argues that Muhammad turned against the Qaynuqa because as artisans and traders, the latter were in close contact with Meccan merchants.[26] Weinsinck views the episodes cited by the Muslim historians used to justify their expulsion; such as a Jewish goldsmith humiliating a Muslim woman, as having no more than anecdotal value. He writes that the Jews had assumed a contentious attitude towards Muhammad, and as a group possessing substantial independent power, they posed a great danger. Wensinck thus concludes that Muhammad, strengthened by the victory at Badr, soon resolved to eliminate the Jewish opposition to himself.[27] Norman Stillman also believes that Muhammad decided to move against the Jews of Medina after being strengthened in the wake of the Battle of Badr.[28] In 625, the Banu Nadir was evicted from Medina and subsequently all of their men were killed and women and children placed into bondage following the events of the Battle of the Trench. All though the Banu Qurayza never took up arms against Mohammad or the Muslims their city was sacked in 627 and according to several Hadiths after they had surrendered all of the men were killed and the children and women forced into slavery
The hadith (recordings of deeds and sayings attributed to Muhammad) use both the terms Banu Israil and Yahud in relation to Jews, the latter term becoming ever more frequent and appearing mostly in negative context. According to Norman Stillman: