Quote:no, I'm suggesting you are looking for any excuse to apologise for the Qurayza's treason and to pretend there wasn't just cause to punish them for their actions.
Even you admitted it was a case of collective punishment. That's why you had to invent the mindless collective of treacherous warrior Jews argument. That is why you fabricated the claim that the Jews were conspiring to commit genocide against the Muslims. Muhammad committed genocide and you accuse people who point this out of making excuses for his victims.
Why did you laugh at your own suggestion that the Meccans murdered by Muhammad during his career as a highway robber were victims? Why does it seem so ludicrous that the Meccans might want to stop Muhammad robbing their caravans and murdering their traders? Is it because it does not fit into your absurd narrative that Muhammad and his immediate successors built the largest land empire the world had ever seen in only a century by merely acting in self defence?
Quote:Now you are introducing another, but well worn apology: excusing the Quraysh for the forced eviction of peaceful protesters from their homes and ceasing all their property - or pretending it didn't happen.
No Gandalf. I am saying that the people that Muhammad murdered and robbed were not the same people, and even if they were, it does not justify Muhammad's career of murdering and robbing Meccan traders, and it does not justify your lie that Muhammad was compelled to commit genocide because the Jews were conspiring genocide of the Muslims. You are the one who introduced it, in a desperate effort to avoid acknowledging your fabricated propaganda to excuse Muhammad's genocide.
You previously acknowledged the broad problem of victimhood mongering among the Muslim community, yet here you are trying to portray Muhammad as the victim while he commits genocide of Jews. Does Islam compel Muslims to cry victimhood while committing crimes against humanity?
Quote:Did the Qurayza stab Muhammad in the back because they felt so terrible about the poor murdered and robbed traders?
I expect it was because they were the last of three large Jewish tribes left in Medina and Muhammad was being openly hostile and belligerant towards them, because (as you said yourself) it was expedient for Muhammad to get rid of the powerful Jewish groups.
Quote:The point of Islamic financing is that THE TOTAL AMOUNT IS SUPPOSED TO BE CHEAPER, which is why it's better.
That depends entirely on the time frame for repayment and the interest rate charged. If you pay the money back quickly, and interest-based fee will always be cheaper. For example, I have a credit card with a very high interest rate and no fixed fees. I make most of my purchases on it. I have never paid any kind of fee at all for the privilege. The idiots who misuse credit cards are subsidising the credit service provided to me.
Quote:Of course, I acknowledge that in our economy, simple interest interest isn't viable; but I wanted to make that distinction.
It is stupid, that's all. Muslims are still free to lend money on that basis.
Quote:But, does it have to be compound interest? Why can't it be simple interest? I'd still be making a profit either way.
It does not have to be anything. A loan is a private agreement between two parties that they enter into voluntarily. You can negotiate any terms you like. Unless of course you live under shariah law.
Quote:I wasn't arguing that if it were practical to abolish compound interest, I was simply asking if it was 'moral'. Of course, no one will lend at simple interest, because the economic/financial system doesn't make it profitable to do so.
It could be very profitable, and there is actually an opportunity to take advantage of the idiocy of Muslims here. Set up a shariah compliant loan with an interest rate that is higher than the standard one, impose a deadline for repayment with significant penalties for being late. Once you are up and running, borrow large sums from a bank with a low rate and lend it out at a higher rate, and take a healthy slice of the repayments for yourself. Of course, you are stuck with the risk of getting lynched by a mob of angry Muslims when you try to foreclose on a house, particularly if you are Jewish.
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