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[quote=Anonymous]From the political forum thread:

(And let's lay this to rest already--if the ISIS idiots are citing this incident as justification, what they are really citing is justification under the Torah.)

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Anonymous wrote:‘According to the biography of Prophet Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq, Prophet Muhammad himself sanctioned the massacre of the Qurayza, a vanquished Jewish tribe mercilessly. Thus some 600 to 900 men from the Qurayza were lead on Muhammad’s order to the Market of Medina. Trenches were dug and the men were beheaded, and their decapitated corpses buried in the trenches while Muhammad watched in attendance. Women and children were sold into slavery, a number of them being distributed as gifts among Muhammad’s companions, and Muhammad chose one of the Qurayza women (Rayhana) for himself. The Qurayza’s property and other possessions (including weapons) were also divided up as additional "booty" among the Muslims, to support further Jihad campaigns.

Is this actually true? Anyone know?

Apparently so: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Banu_Qurayza

But as expected, there is more to the story. The reason was that they had entered into a defense pact with Muslims following Muhammad but switched sides. Unfortunately for them the Muslims prevailed. A judge who was a former Jew took the sentence from the Torah:

Deuteronomy 10:

10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

I suppose it could have been worse. The next verse of Deuteronomy says:

16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

I find it ironic that this shocking citation can be found in the bible sitting on our night stands and book shelves. Ample warning that we should not judge religions by events from 1,000 years ago.
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