The words of a racist:
polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 5
th, 2013 at 10:27am:
freediver wrote on Dec 5
th, 2013 at 8:26am:
If you think these 800 people acted as some kind of mindless collective
Thats exactly what they were.
polite_gandalf wrote on May 23
rd, 2016 at 5:52pm:
we call them scheming jews.
Gandalf denying he described them as a mindless collective:
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1464336968polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 5
th, 2013 at 3:11pm:
As I said, there was no real concept of individuality - your personality was literally defined by which tribe you belonged to. And the decisions that govern the tribe are very much decisions that are represented by all the individuals who make up the tribe. Thus there really is no question of collective guilt - no matter how abhorrent we find the term today.
polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 6
th, 2013 at 2:05pm:
Like I keep saying, it is reasonable to accuse them of collective guilt, since at any time any individual had the opportunity to disassociate themselves from the decisions made on behalf of the tribe.
polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 5
th, 2013 at 6:38am:
They obviously could not be trusted to remain under the treaty of Medina, or be left free to leave and join forces with the enemy like the Banu Nadir. So off with your heads traitors. Boo hoo.
polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 5
th, 2013 at 10:27am:
freediver wrote on Dec 5
th, 2013 at 8:26am:
The historical evidence indicates that some of these people actually helped the Muslims, and there were no actual hostilities against them.
Supplying weapons while at the same time conspiring with the enemy behind Muhammad's back is even worse. Keeping the pretense that they are "with" Muhammad, in order to conceal their treachery.
This one is about one of the other tribes of Jews that Muhammed dealt with earlier. Apparently Muhammed had "generously" allowed them to get kicked out of their homes, and they responded with more Jewish treachery. The only link between the two tribes in question (and a third that Muhammed got rid of) is that they were Jewish.
polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 4
th, 2013 at 3:48pm:
Muhammad had been burnt before by granting another traitorous tribe free passage to leave the city - upon which they immediately started plotting against Medina and instigating hostilities.
polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 28
th, 2015 at 4:08pm:
Muhammad learned his lesson when he let the other tribe who attacked him leave in good will
polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 4
th, 2013 at 7:07pm:
Lets see what your beloved Sealed Nectar says about these "innocent" jews
polite_gandalf wrote on Aug 16
th, 2013 at 2:04am:
freediver wrote on Aug 15
th, 2013 at 9:13pm:
Does this count as antisemitic propaganda from Muhammed?
http://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=41&translator=2&number=6980 6981
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is a Jew (hiding himself behind me) ; kill him.
Its a prophecy - not anti-semitic propaganda.
Apparently it is OK because Muhammed slaughtered them for political power, not racism, which is completely different to modern anti-semites like Hitler:
polite_gandalf wrote on Aug 3
rd, 2013 at 11:05am:
The consistent charge laid at Muhammad was that he hated jews for being jews - making him akin to your more orthodox "anti-semite".
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In that case, the whole doctrinal case of "Muhammad the anti-semite" gets thrown out the window. At that point we might even start to look at the conflict with some semblance of rationality - acknowledging that it was, more than anything else, a conflict over power-politics, not racism or (horror of horrors) anti-semitism.
polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 28
th, 2015 at 4:08pm:
The leaders conspired - yes.
The rest of them had the opportunity to disown their treachery. They declined. So tough titties- off with their heads.
polite_gandalf wrote on May 24
th, 2016 at 7:38pm:
What do you reckon is more absurd - to claim its not racist, or that it could actually be true?
polite_gandalf wrote on May 25
th, 2016 at 1:33pm:
freediver wrote on May 25
th, 2016 at 12:10pm:
So it is OK to use racist propaganda to justify the slaughter of Jews,
No that would indeed be racist.
polite_gandalf wrote on May 25
th, 2016 at 7:45pm:
freediver wrote on May 25
th, 2016 at 6:32pm:
What about insisting they were a mindless collective of treacherous Jews. Would that be racist?
Yes it would FD.