Quote:It matters because the lower end estimate could represent only leaders/actual conspirators were put to death while the rank and file were let off.
Are you suggesting there were 600 leaders in a tribe with 800 men? Sounds like you are clutching at straws. Are you abandoning the "mindless colelctive of treacherous Jews" argument?
Quote:"Some you killed and some you took captive" (33:26)
Almost none of the women were killed. What is this verse in reference to?
Quote:Gosh, it couldn't possibly mean the account is a little unreliable could it?
It could mean that the Muslims saw them as a mindless collective rather than as individuals. Do you accept the argument from NeoNazis that variations in the estimate of the number of casualties of the holocaust is evidence it did not happen?
You have cited 2 (I think) individuals from this tribe who were spared for somehow disowning the treachery. I would expect the Muslims to be able to count to 2 fairly accurately, even if they didn't bother documenting how large the tribe was. Can you clarify if it is 2, and how exactly they disowned the treachery?